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Hungarian Nikoletta Bogadi speaks during an interview in Budapest on April 2. Bogadi's life was turned upside down when one of her four children came out as gay and another one as transgender.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 22, 2025
Trump helps inflame anti-LGBTQ+ feeling from Hungary to Romania
The U.S. president's anti-LGBTQ+ push is emboldening similar efforts in Europe.
An LNG tanker is guided by tug boats in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, on April 14, 2022. The European Union is looking at ways to make it easier for U.S. gas exports to comply with its methane emissions rules.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 21, 2025
EU explores tweaking methane rules for U.S. gas to help trade talks
The European Commission is looking at using flexibilities in how it applies the bloc's methane rules, which could benefit U.S. liquefied natural gas exporters, sources say.
People walk past a banner picturing Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sevastopol, Crimea, on March 22. The banner reads: "The West doesn't need Russia, we need Russia!"
WORLD / Politics
Apr 19, 2025
U.S. open to recognizing Crimea as Russian in Ukraine deal
The signal comes as the Trump administration said it is prepared to move on from its peace-brokering efforts unless progress is made quickly.
Rescue workers search the rubble of a building destroyed in the Palm Sunday missile attack in Sumy, Ukraine, on Monday.
WORLD
Apr 18, 2025
U.S. peace framework for Russia's war in Ukraine gets 'encouraging reception'
Talks in Paris were the first substantive, high-level and in-person talks on Trump's peace push that have included the Europeans.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the European Union summit in Brussels on March 20
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
Hungary set to restrict constitutional rights in 'Easter cleanup'
Hungary's parliament on Monday is expected to approve constitutional changes further clamping down on rights for LGBTQ+ people and other groups, part of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's "Easter cleanup" against his domestic opponents.
Paris Basketball's Nadir Hifi during a game against Maccabi Tel Aviv in Paris on Jan. 16.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Apr 12, 2025
NBA keen to tap into deep European talent pool
With the global pool of talent growing in the North American sport, the NBA is following a similar playbook to the other major men's North American sports leagues.
British Defense Secretary John Healey (right) holds a news conference with Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov following a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 12, 2025
Europe to present Trump with Ukraine force plan within weeks
European leader hope the plan for a postwar "reassurance force” in Ukraine will persuade the U.S. president to commit to security guarantees for Kyiv.
Cargo is uploaded onto a China-Europe freight train at the China-Kazakhstan (Lianyungang) Logistics Cooperation Base in Lianyungang, China, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Apr 12, 2025
Jolted by Trump, EU woos new partners from Asia to Latin America
The EU has embarked on a charm offensive to diversify its alliances, with summits lined up back-to-back and trade talks launched in all directions.
A scientist tests glacier samples in Columbus, Ohio, in 2021. The threat to academics' livelihoods at universities including Yale, Columbia and Johns Hopkins has given Europe's political leaders hope they could reap an intellectual windfall.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 11, 2025
Brain drain? Trump cutbacks force scientists to seek jobs in Europe
The threat posed by Donald Trump to academics' livelihoods at top U.S. universities has given Europe's political leaders hope they could reap an intellectual windfall.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte meets with members of an explosives disposal team while inspecting equipment aboard the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Mogami frigate at the Yokosuka Base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Apr 11, 2025
Japan and NATO strengthen links amid rising security fears
The starting point for the deepening ties is a shared view that security is indivisible and events that create instability in one part of the world will impact other regions.
A National Rally demonstration in Paris on Sunday following party head Marine Le Pen's conviction for embezzlement. The far-right leader and her supporters have decried the ruling as political.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 9, 2025
Le Pen ruling unleashes wave of hypocrisy on populist right
Across the globe, far-right populists have gained popularity as protectors of law and order, but Le Pen's conviction in France reveals the shaky foundations of this commitment.
Workers harvest grapes of Merlot in Contessa Entellina, southwest of Sicily, in 2024. Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, Europe's climate monitor said on Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Apr 8, 2025
Global temperatures at near-historic highs in March, says EU monitor
In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, driving rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other.
A television station broadcasts U.S. President Donald Trump speaking during a Rose Garden event, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Apr 8, 2025
Frustrated world leaders wonder if Trump even wants a deal
U.S. President Donald Trump has set a high bar, telling reporters that any agreements would need to eliminate bilateral trade deficits.
A doctor administers COVID-19 vaccinations to members of the Latino community in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, in August 2021.
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 5, 2025
As U.S. ditches diversity in clinical trials, all eyes on Europe
The United States once led the world in running clinical trials that aimed to look like the nation at large.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Moscow in 2022. The war in Ukraine will eventually come to an end and Europe needs to come up with a unified strategy to be a formidable adversary in the Kremlin's eyes.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2025
Europe must set the terms for postwar Russia engagement now
Past trade with Russia didn't work to limit Moscow, but isolation isn't the way forward either. In an eventual postwar scenario, Europe should opt for deterrence, not dialogue.
While tariffs and value-added taxes seem similar, a VAT would be a more effective, long-term solution for boosting the U.S. economy.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2025
Europe’s VAT hurts the U.S.? Retaliate with a VAT.
Maybe misconceptions about tariffs and trade can be turned to America’s advantage.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's contradictory statements on U.S. military strategy and alliances with Europe and Asia raise questions about his true stance, reflecting the chameleon-like nature of U.S. foreign policy under the Trump administration.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 3, 2025
Will the real Pete Hegseth please stand up?
The same fears remain in terms of security. Even if the Trump administration seeks to deter China, it is unlikely to shift its policy of so-called pacifism.
Containers are loaded onto a ship at the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, on Wednesday ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of new tariffs.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 3, 2025
Trump tariffs pile stress on ailing world economy
They will sap yet more vigor from a world economy barely recovered from the post-pandemic inflation surge.
North Korean IT workers have historically focused on infiltrating companies in the U.S. but are now targeting European firms.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 3, 2025
North Korean IT warriors push to infiltrate European firms
North Korean IT workers have historically focused on infiltrating companies in the U.S.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte holds a news conference in Brussels on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 3, 2025
At summit, NATO eyes growing industrial collaboration with Asian partners
The summit comes as the military alliance seeks to step up ties with its Indo-Pacific partners.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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