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Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu
WORLD
Aug 6, 2024
Iranian president, in talks with Putin ally, calls for expanded ties with Russia
Russia's Sergei Shoigu met Iran's president and top security officials as Tehran weighs its response to the killing of a Hamas leader.
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2024
Israel braces for attack by Iran as U.S. urges Gaza cease-fire
The top U.S. diplomat said Sunday that the exact timing of any attacks remained unclear, but they would likely start within the next 24 to 48 hours.
Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel that were fired from southern Lebanon on Sunday, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2024
Foreign nationals told to leave Lebanon as war fears surge
The nearly 10-month-old war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has led to a violent fallout that has become routine around the region.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on July 25.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2024
Killing of Hamas leader fuels more tension between Biden and Netanyahu
The U.S. president has expressed concern that the assassination has thrown cease-fire talks into doubt, something the Israeli leader rejects.
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air-defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on Sunday, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2024
Fears of Middle East war grow after Hamas leader's killing
The killing this week of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran has triggered vows of vengeance from Iran and the so-called "axis of resistance."
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
WORLD
Aug 3, 2024
Pentagon deploying ships and fighters to boost Mideast presence
The moves come as Israel faces threats from Iran to avenge assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.
Surrounded by Iranian lawmakers, Ismail Haniyeh (center), a chief political leader of Hamas, flashes a victory sign at a swearing-in ceremony for President Masoud Pezeshkian, in Tehran on Tuesday. Haniyeh was assassinated hours later, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said, a severe blow to the Palestinian group that threatens to engulf the region in further conflict.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 1, 2024
Iran and Hamas blame Israel for killing of top official and vow to strike back
In recent years, Israel has carried out several high-profile assassinations in Iran, rattling the country’s leaders.
Israel is engaged not only in fighting real wars but also in ideological conflicts that shape its security, existence and global legitimacy.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2024
Challenged on all fronts: Israel’s five wars
What do those who support Israel's right to self-defense suggest it do to combat an enemy that entrenches itself in hundreds of miles of tunnels beneath civilians?
Hamas' political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, attends a swearing-in ceremony for new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the parliament in Tehran on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jul 31, 2024
Hamas says political chief Ismail Haniyeh killed in 'Zionist' strike in Tehran
The group said he was killed in a "Zionist strike on his headquarters in Tehran" after he joined the inauguration of the new Iranian president.
Senior Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, in 2017.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 31, 2024
Tough-talking Ismail Haniyeh was seen as Hamas' more moderate face
Hamas' political leader, who was killed in Iran, was the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group's international diplomacy.
The U.S. Capitol building stands past visitors taking photographs at the Washington Monument in Washington in 2017.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 30, 2024
Russia, Iran and China all seek to shape U.S. election, officials say
Some U.S. citizens have been knowingly helping foreign governments shape the election narrative while others have been tricked into helping.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) on Sunday delivers a speech during the official presidential endorsement ceremony of President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian (right).
WORLD / Politics
Jul 29, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader hints at improving ties with West
Iran’s supreme leader indicated that his country is open to easing diplomatic engagement with the West.
Mourners hold a mass funeral in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on Sunday. The Israeli military said the victims, 12 youths, died when an Iranian-made missile fired by Hezbollah landed on a soccer field in the town.
WORLD
Jul 28, 2024
Thousands of Druze mourn youths killed in Golan rocket attack
Since October when war in the Gaza strip began, Israeli forces and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement have regularly exchanged fire over the border.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gives a presidential decree to Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, during an endorsement ceremony in Tehran on Sunday.
WORLD
Jul 28, 2024
Iran's Khamenei formally grants Pezeshkian presidential powers
Pezeshkian, 69, won a runoff race on July 5 against the ultraconservative Saeed Jalili to replace president Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash in May.
Foreign exchange rates are shown in a shop window in Tehran. Iran's newly elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian, faces the tough challenge of reviving Iran's beleaguered, sanctions-hit economy.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2024
Iran’s economy needs a new deal with the West, badly
Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran's new president, inherits high inflation and deteriorating public services. His only way out is cutting a deal with the West to lift sanctions.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Iran is capable of producing fissile material for use in a nuclear weapon within "one or two weeks."
WORLD / Politics
Jul 20, 2024
Iran capable of producing fissile material in 'one or two weeks,' Blinken says
News of Iran's capabilities follows the recent election of President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has said his goal is to "get Iran out of its isolation."
Former U.S. President Donald Trump campaigns for president in Racine, Wisconsin, on June 18.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 17, 2024
Trump security was tightened on Iran plot intel; no link to shooting
There has been a broad pattern of threats against former Trump administration officials after the 2020 killing of the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Interceptions of rockets launched from Lebanon to Israel over the border on June 27
WORLD
Jul 10, 2024
Pagers and drones: How Hezbollah aims to counter Israel's surveillance
Stepped-up attacks on Lebanon's southern border in recent weeks have intensified concerns it could spiral into a full-scale war.
Police examine a cash transport vehicle (left) outside a local bank branch in Kodaira, Tokyo, in October 2001.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 9, 2024
Iranian man arrested over 2001 Tokyo cash truck attack
The suspect is accused of firing three shots on Oct. 3, 2001, breaking a security guard's leg and stealing six bags with ¥102.2 million in cash.
Newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks in Tehran on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 7, 2024
Iran vote winner could ease, but won't end, nuclear tensions
Masoud Pezeshkian's victory in Iran's presidential elections has given a rare boost to efforts for scaling down Tehran's row with the West.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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