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Cadets of the Russian patriotic movement Youth Army hold trench candles at a school museum in the town of Istra in the Moscow region on Jan. 24.
WORLD / Society
Berets, boots and flags: Russia teaches young children to revere army
One pro-military youth group's agenda covers everything from sports competitions to how to handle a Kalashnikov rifle.
WORLD / Society
Trump call for Gazan exit echoes in destroyed homes
The war has stopped after 16 months, but the destruction left in its wake leaves Palestinians in a daily battle of trying to decide whether to stay or go.
WORLD / Society
Mass shootings horrify the Balkans, but illegal guns still thrive
The region is littered with millions of firearms left over from regional conflicts, and the culture of weapon ownership runs centuries deep.
Phishing and its social-engineering cousin "pretexting" together accounted for more than 20% of almost 10,000 data breaches worldwide last year.
WORLD / Society
Jan 30, 2025
Age of deepfakes means internet users must be more alert than ever
By Tom Barfield
AI chatbots powered by large language models save attackers time and allow for more elaborate fake messages.
Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (left) and Robert Socolow, a professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, reveal the location of the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock at a Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists news conference in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Jan 29, 2025
'Doomsday Clock' moves closer than ever to midnight
By Will Dunham
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said the United States, China and Russia have the prime responsibility to pull the world back from the brink.
A woman walks past a mural adorning a family clinic in Nairobi in 2017.
WORLD / Society
Jan 28, 2025
Trump 2.0 instills fear in African abortion activists
By Nita Bhalla
Trump has reinstated an anti-abortion pact that cuts off U.S. funds to foreign charities that provide or promote abortions.
Webcam model Tania Rios looks at a computer screen in Soacha, near Bogota, Colombia, on Dec. 17. Unhealthy rooms, shared sex toys, excessive shifts, clients with degrading requests and harassment — for years silenced, webcam models are denouncing the abuses they have suffered in Colombia, a mecca of this multimillion dollar business.
WORLD / Society
Jan 28, 2025
Colombian 'webcam models' denounce abuse in online sex industry
By David Salazar and Etienne LE PAGE
Despite their clients being thousands of kilometers away, many webcam sex workers say they have suffered physical and emotional mistreatment.
Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate is illuminated with the inscription "WeRemember" on Saturday as part of the remembrance ceremonies for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
WORLD / Society
Jan 28, 2025
Auschwitz survivors warn of rising antisemitism at 80th anniversary of camp's liberation
By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki
More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease at Auschwitz.
The sign of Greenlandic representation in Copenhagen on Sunday
WORLD / Society
Jan 27, 2025
Adopted without consent, a Greenlander woman seeks justice
By Camille BAS-WOHLERT
Kalanguak Absalonsen is one of four Greenlanders seeking compensation from Denmark for wrongful adoption. If the state refuses their request, they will take their case to court.
Schoolchildren in El Bosque, Mexico. Education is one of the services most frequently disrupted by climate hazards, UNICEF's executive director Catherine Russell said.
WORLD / Society
Jan 24, 2025
Climate shocks in 2024 disrupted 242 million children's schooling: UNICEF
By Amelie Bottollier-Depois
Heat waves had the biggest impact, with at least 171 million children affected by them last year.

Japan's Prince Hisahito to hold first news conference on March 3
Prince Hisahito heads to greet the Emperor and Empress on the occasion of his 18th birthday in Tokyo on Sep. 6.
Special website created 30 years after Tokyo subway sarin attack
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by Aum Shinrikyo, the Public Security Intelligence Agency launched a special website Friday.
LDP and opposition lock horns over Japan budget
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in parliament on Friday
Japanese nationals returned from Myanmar as scam probe continues
Multinational victims of scam centers, who were allegedly trafficked into working in Myanmar and were sent to Thailand on Feb. 12 amid a mounting crackdown on scam centers operating along a porous border, queue to get food at a shelter in Tak province, Thailand, on Wednesday.
Over 80% of Japanese say death penalty system is 'unavoidable'
Former death row inmate Iwao Hakamata (left) and his sister, Hideko, attend a gathering of his supporters after his acquittal in a retrial over a 1966 murder case was finalized in October last year.
As Ukraine rift emerges, Kyiv's envoy says Japan must take on bigger global role
Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky speaks during an interview at the Ukrainian Embassy in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan release of Shiori Ito's documentary in limbo
Shiori Ito, who won a civil suit over a rape case against a TV reporter, in 2018. Her former lawyers claim her documentary includes footage used without the consent of sources.
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown ready to sprint past Paris disappointment
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (center) runs during a 100-meter heat at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 3, 2024.
What is the ceiling for sumo’s newest yokozuna?
Newly promoted grand champion Hoshoryu (center) performs a dedication ceremony at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Jan. 31.
‘Yasuko, Songs of Days Past’ puts overlooked star in the spotlight
“Yasuko, Songs of Days Past” centers on a real-life love triangle between poet Chuya Nakahara (Taisei Kido, left), actor Yasuko Hasegawa (Suzu Hirose, center) and literary critic Hideo Kobayashi (Masaki Okada).

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Tokyo Koon stands at the forefront of tackling the so-called 2025 issue, also known as the “Magnetic Tape Alert.”
The race to save 20th-century history
By Alex K.T. Martin

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