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A person walks along a snow covered road in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada, on Feb. 28.
WORLD
Apr 14, 2025
'Hard on the body': Canadian troops train for Arctic defense
Canada is making a significant push to boost its military strength in the Arctic, which accounts for 40% of its territory.
A Ukrainian rescuer walks by a burned car in front of damaged building at the site of a missile attack in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 14, 2025
Bangladesh families seek sons feared fighting for Russia
Around a dozen families have contacted Dhaka's embassy in Moscow to seek help bringing back their sons they allege were duped into joining the Russian army.
Ukrainian law enforcement officers work at the site of a deadly missile attack in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD
Apr 14, 2025
Russian missile strike on Ukraine city kills 34 on Palm Sunday
European and U.S. leaders condemned the strike — one of the deadliest attacks in months — that also wounded 117, including 15 children.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, in St. Petersburg on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2025
The U.S. and Russia are negotiating in bad faith
For now, Trump says he is “pissed off” at Putin for not being more amenable to his administration’s ceasefire proposals and he is threatening to impose yet more sanctions.
U.S. President Donald Trump leaves after speaking to the media on board Air Force One on the way to Miami on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 13, 2025
On Ukraine talks, Trump says there is a time 'to put up or shut up'
The U.S. president made the comments a day after he showed frustration with Russia and told it to "get moving" on reaching a deal.
The Bundeswehr booth at the Hannover Messe 2025 trade fair in Hannover, Germany, on March 31.
WORLD / FOCUS
Apr 12, 2025
Germany wants to be a military powerhouse. Can it pull it off?
Achieving this may be easier said than done. Germany’s defense and national security apparatus is fragmented and encumbered by bureaucracy.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 28.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 12, 2025
Trump carves up world and international order with it
Russia wants Ukraine, China demands Taiwan and now the U.S. president seems to be following suit, whether by coveting Canada, Greenland or the Panama Canal.
Keith Kellogg
WORLD / Politics
Apr 12, 2025
Trump envoy suggests allied zones of control in Ukraine
The proposal focused on areas of responsibility west of the Dnipro River, with a demilitarized zone separating them from Russian-occupied areas in the east.
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.
Ukrainan President Volodymyr Zelensky visits his hometown of Kryvyi Rig, where several Ukrainians were killed in a recent Russian missile strike, on Friday.
WORLD
Apr 12, 2025
'Several hundred' Chinese fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Kyiv said this week that its forces had captured two Chinese nationals in the eastern Donetsk region fighting for Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 12, 2025
U.S. envoy meets Putin as Trump tells Moscow to 'get moving' on Ukraine
The talks come at a time when U.S.-Russia dialogue aimed at agreeing on a ceasefire ahead of a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine appears to have stalled.
Scrambles against Chinese military aircraft account for 464, or 65.9%, down by 15, according to the Defense Ministry.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 2025
Japan defense force scrambled fighter jets 704 times in fiscal 2024
Scrambles against Chinese military aircraft accounted for 65.9% of the total, and the number of Chinese drones detected by the ministry more than tripled to 30.
Russian American dual citizen Ksenia Karelina attends a court hearing in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in August 2024.
WORLD
Apr 10, 2025
Russia and U.S. bring spa worker and tech smuggler back home in prisoner swap
A lawyer for Ksenia Karelina, who was found guilty last year of treason for donating money to a U.S.-based charity supporting Ukraine, said she was on her way back to the U.S.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever and business officials in Kyiv on Tuesday
WORLD
Apr 10, 2025
Zelenskyy says at least 155 Chinese nationals are fighting on Russia's side
Ukraine captured two Chinese nationals in eastern Ukraine, where Russian troops have been advancing.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte speaks during a forum at Keio University in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 9, 2025
NATO chief calls on allies and partners to ‘outproduce and outpace’ rivals
In Tokyo on Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called on members of the alliance and its four Indo-Pacific partners to work more closely together.
Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin is seen on a screen in celebration of his 895th career National Hockey League goal, which he scored during a game against the New York Islanders to break the all-time record of Wayne Gretzky, in Moscow, Russia on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Apr 9, 2025
Ukraine support groups call on NHL to reject Russia collaboration
The Kremlin said that Trump supported Putin's idea of hosting hockey games between American and Russian players after Russia was frozen out of international events.
One of two Chinese soldiers Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said were captured by Ukrainian forces in the country's Donetsk region is seen in this image released Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 9, 2025
In a first, Ukraine captures two Chinese nationals fighting for Russia
The Chinese men were taken captive during fighting on Ukrainian territory in the Donetsk region.
The 2025 Diplomatic Bluebook says that Tokyo will communicate closely with Washington over various issues facing the international community.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 8, 2025
Japan foreign policy report highlights importance of building ties with Trump
The 2025 Diplomatic Bluebook said that Tokyo will communicate closely with Washington over various issues facing the international community.
A landmine-sniffing rat patrols a mine field in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2025
Pivot by some countries toward landmine use appalls experts
Four countries said in a joint statement that "Russia's aggression" forced them to start moves to pull out of the 1997 Ottawa Treaty aimed at eliminating anti-personnel landmines.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks in a video message shown at a national rally demanding the return of the Northern Territories held in Tokyo in February.
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2025
Russia bans Japanese NGO amid disputed islands row
The four islands were captured by the Soviet military during the final months of the war, and have been held by Moscow since, in what Tokyo describes as an "illegal occupation."
A new tour of Tokyo’s most underground attraction
When you stare into the abyss at the bottom of the No. 3 shaft of the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, the abyss stares back.
China halts critical rare earth exports as trade war intensifies
Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, in China's Jiangsu province, in October 2010.
'Chikan' incidents rise as Japan grapples with mental health and cultural challenges
Overcrowded trains and a lack of legal consequences for groping in Japan have led to a rise in "chikan," or groping, which has been linked to a mental condition and compounded by cultural stigmas.
Japan doesn’t plan to use U.S. Treasurys as tariff talk leverage
Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Itsunori Onodera speaks at LDP headquarters in Tokyo last October.
Osaka Expo throws open its doors as mega-event kicks off
People visit the Osaka Expo on the first day it opened to the public, in the city of Osaka on Sunday.
A new tour of Tokyo’s most underground attraction
When you stare into the abyss at the bottom of the No. 3 shaft of the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, the abyss stares back.
Two-thirds of fourth to sixth graders in Japan use social media, survey finds
The survey showed that more children are starting to use social media at an earlier age.
Osaka Expo-bound? Take your pick of the city’s new luxury hotels.
The Four Seasons Hotel Osaka opened in 2024, just one of many new luxury accommodations the city boasts ahead of the 2025 World Expo.
Heaven from hells: The sulfuric pleasure of Unzen Onsen
While Unzen Onsen's "hells" can be visually striking, locals describe them and their effects as "a source of emotional healing."
Osaka Expo throws open its doors as mega-event kicks off
People visit the Osaka Expo on the first day it opened to the public, in the city of Osaka on Sunday.

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

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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