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WAR CRIMES

Palestinians crowd a coastal path west of the city of Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip after managing to get aid parcels on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 30, 2025
Britain warns Israel it could recognize Palestinian state as Gaza starves
The warning, which drew a harsh Israeli rebuke, came after a hunger monitor warned a worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding and immediate action is needed.
Palestinians carry aid supplies which entered Gaza through Israel in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on Sunday.
WORLD
Jul 29, 2025
Gaza death toll hits 60,000 as global monitor demands action to avert famine
Famine is unfolding in Gaza and immediate action is needed to end fighting and allow unimpeded aid access, the hunger monitor said.
Members of the Sudanese army walk past a destroyed military vehicle and bombed buildings in the state of Khartoum on March 26.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 25, 2025
Sudan's Islamists plot postwar comeback by supporting army
The Islamist movement was toppled in Sudan's uprising in 2019.
An Israeli APC seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border on Monday
WORLD / Politics
Jul 24, 2025
Brazil prepares to join South Africa's Gaza genocide case against Israel at ICJ
South Africa filed the case in 2023 asking the ICJ to declare that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
A protester runs onto the road near the finish of Stage 11 of the Tour de France on July 16.
MORE SPORTS / Cycling
Jul 24, 2025
Activists protest Gaza war during Tour de France and call for Israeli team ban
Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists waved flags and unfurled banners on Wednesday as the Tour de France peloton rode through Dieulefit.
Palestinians, mostly children, attempt to receive a hot meal at a charity kitchen in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Jul 23, 2025
More than 100 aid groups warn of 'mass starvation' spreading across Gaza
Israel is facing mounting international pressure over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory.
An Israeli activist holds a bag of flour and a picture of a child suffering from malnutrition during a march toward the Israeli defense ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jul 23, 2025
Gaza hospital says 21 children died from malnutrition and starvation in 72 hours
A World Food Program director who visited Gaza City in early July called the situation "the worst" he had ever seen.
Palestinians transport people who were killed or injured while trying to get humanitarian aid, into the Red Cross field hospital in the Mawasi area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
Jul 21, 2025
Gaza civil defense says Israeli gunfire kills 93 aid seekers
Israel's military disputed the death toll and said soldiers had fired warning shots as thousands gathered near Gaza City.
Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, on Sunday.
WORLD
Jul 20, 2025
Israel issues new evacuation orders in central Gaza as hunger worsens
Much of Gaza has been reduced to a wasteland during more than 21 months of war and there are fears of accelerating starvation.
A woman caresses a child's head as Palestinians wait at a food distribution point in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.
WORLD
Jul 20, 2025
Gaza civil defense says Israeli fire kills 39 near two aid centers
Deaths of people waiting for handouts in huge crowds near food points in Gaza have become a regular occurrence, with the territory's authorities frequently blaming Israeli fire.
A man carries a person into Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jul 17, 2025
Aid point crush in Gaza Strip kills 20 people
For the first time, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by the United States and Israel, acknowledged deaths at one of its distribution sites.
Palestinian children stand in line for food distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jul 16, 2025
One in 10 children in its clinics are malnourished, U.N. Palestinian refugee agency says
More than 5,800 children have been diagnosed with malnutrition in Gaza, including more than 1,000 children with severe, acute malnutrition.
Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza on Monday
WORLD
Jul 15, 2025
Amid heated debate, no real plan for Israel's 'humanitarian city' in Gaza
Planning was in a very initial phase only, one source said, and the goal was to help Palestinians who do not want to live under Hamas rule.
A woman sitting amid debris looks on as Palestinians inspect destroyed tents at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Younis in the northern Gaza strip on Friday.
WORLD
Jul 14, 2025
Israeli plan to move Gazans into closed zone triggers backlash
The plan envisions building from scratch a closed zone in southern Gaza during a potential 60-day ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas, currently under negotiation in Qatar.
A Palestinian man and one of his sons mourn beside the body of his other son who was killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid near a distribution point in Rafah, according to medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
WORLD
Jul 13, 2025
Gaza truce talks faltering over withdrawal; 17 reported killed in latest shooting near aid
The latest mass shooting around a U.S.-backed aid distribution system has resulted in 800 people killed in six weeks, according to the U.N.
A woman looks on as Palestinians inspect destroyed tents at a makeshift displacement camp following a reported incursion a day earlier by Israeli tanks in the area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.
WORLD
Jul 12, 2025
U.N. says hundreds killed in recent weeks while seeking aid in Gaza
The violence came as negotiators from Israel and Hamas were locked in indirect talks in Qatar to try to agree on a temporary ceasefire.
Wounded Palestinians lie on beds at Al Shifa Hospital, which Gaza's health ministry says is at risk of shutting down due to the Israeli blockade of fuel, in Gaza City on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jul 11, 2025
Gaza doctors cram babies into incubators as fuel shortage threatens hospitals
Medics in the Gaza Strip say the dwindling fuel supplies threaten to plunge them into darkness and paralyze hospitals and clinics there.
Smoke billows during an Israeli strike on Gaza on Thursday. U.S.-based Project HOPE said the strike had hit right outside its Altayara health clinic.
WORLD
Jul 11, 2025
Israeli strike kills children near Gaza clinic, with no immediate truce in sight
Repeated attacks by Israeli forces in recent weeks have put an enormous strain on Gaza's few remaining hospitals.
Palestinians collect what remains of relief supplies from the distribution center of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2025
Proposal outlines large-scale 'Humanitarian Transit Areas' for Palestinians in Gaza
One source said the plan, which calls the camps "large-scale" and "voluntary" places for the Gazan population, was recently discussed in the White House.
Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire a howitzer toward Russian troops at a position in the front line in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, in February.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 5, 2025
Russian use of chemical weapons against Ukraine 'widespread,' Dutch defense minister says
Russia has been dropping a choking agent from drones to drive Ukrainian soldiers out of trenches so they can be shot, according to the intelligence.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
SoftBank is said to have explored potential takeover of Marvell
SoftBank explored a potential takeover of U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology earlier this year, in what would have been the semiconductor industry's largest-ever deal.
These are the hottest lower-division rikishi to watch right now
Fukazaki (right) grapples with Enho at the IG Arena in Nagoya on July 13.
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition
Judi Oyama at Winchester Skatepark in San Jose, California, in January 1979. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee and Guinness World Record holder still skates and hopes to inspire older women.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
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