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A serviceman with the Ukrainian Army's 24th mechanized brigade fires a machine gun during an exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the country's Donetsk region on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 2, 2024
Europe eyes 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine as possible peace deal option
The troop presence is among security guarantees being considered as the possibility grows of a deal requiring Kyiv to cede territory to Moscow.
A Finnish soldier operates a towed 155 mm field gun during the Northern Forest land force exercise in Rovajarvi, Finland, in May 2023.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 2, 2024
Ukraine war reinvigorating Finland’s fighting spirit
Instead of intimidating the Finns, Ukraine's conflict with Russia has had the opposite effect of reigniting their focus on national resilience.
A tank, left behind by Syrian regime forces, is seen on the road leading to the town of Khan Sheikhun, in Idlib province, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2024
Syria's embattled Assad seeks to shore up support after Aleppo loss
For the first time since the civil war started more than a decade ago, the country's second city is out of control of Syrian regime forces, observers said.
Thousands of people gather for a third night of protests against the government's decision to shelve European Union membership talks until 2028, near the parliament building in Tbilisi on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2024
Tens of thousands rally in Georgia as new election calls are rebuffed
Georgia has been rocked by turmoil since the governing Georgian Dream party claimed victory in Oct. 26 parliamentary polls.
Kaja Kallas, who was set to take up her post as the European Union's top diplomat, looks on during a plenary session of the European Parliament, before a vote to approve the new European Commission, in Strasbourg, France, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2024
New EU chiefs visit Kyiv on first day of mandate
The visit by the EU's new top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, and head of the European Council, Antonio Costa, was a symbolic show of support for Kyiv.
Anti-government fighters pose for a picture on a tank on the road leading to Maaret al-Numan in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Saturday.
WORLD
Dec 1, 2024
Syrian rebels sweep into Aleppo as Russia conducts strikes
The offensive forced the Syrian army to redeploy in the biggest challenge to President Bashar Assad in years.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili attends an opposition rally to protest after the government halted the EU application until 2028, in Tbilisi, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2024
Georgian president pledges to stay on after violent clashes
Georgian police and special forces cleared protesters and barricades from the main street of Tbilisi.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov in Pyongyang in this image released Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 30, 2024
North Korea's Kim and Russian defense chief agree to boost military ties
Experts say Kim Jong Un is eager to gain advanced technology and battle experience for his troops.
A Chinese J-16 fighter jet is seen during a joint patrol with Russian forces on Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2024
China and Russia conduct joint military air patrol near Japan
This was the eighth large-scale joint flight by military aircraft from the two countries near Japan and the first since December last year.
The Moscow skyline. Heavy recruitment by the armed forces and defense industries has drawn workers away from civilian enterprises, as has emigration, pushing unemployment to a record low of 2.3%, data showed Wednesday.
WORLD / Society / ANALYSIS
Nov 29, 2024
Russia's labor shortage spreads as defense sector poaches staff
A growing labor shortage is affecting all areas of life since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
A girl stands next to her house damaged by a Russian missile strike on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 29, 2024
Ukraine calls Russian strikes on energy facilities 'despicable escalation'
Ukrainian president said Russia used cruise missiles with cluster munitions on Thursday, its second big attack on energy infrastructure this month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
WORLD
Nov 28, 2024
Putin warns Russia may strike Kyiv with new ballistic missiles
Russia has said it will strike back for recent Ukrainian attacks using U.S.-supplied ATACMS and U.K.-made Storm Shadow long-range missiles.
U.S. President Joe Biden leaves after delivering remarks from the White House Rose Garden in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 28, 2024
Biden readies $725 million arms aid package for Ukraine, sources say
The Biden administration plans to provide a variety of anti-tank weapons from U.S. stocks to blunt Russia's advancing troops.
Keith Kellogg, then-national security adviser to then-U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, speaks during a press briefing on Sept. 22, 2020, in the White House in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 28, 2024
Trump picks Keith Kellogg as envoy for Ukraine and Russia
The retired general is a longtime adviser who’s supported the president-elect's aims of ending the war swiftly, including by potentially cutting off military aid to Kyiv.
The European Union is considering stationing the equivalent of a defense attache with its delegation in Tokyo — a first for Brussels in Japan.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 28, 2024
EU considering stationing defense attache with Tokyo delegation
The adviser would provide military expertise within the EU delegation in Tokyo and interact with counterparts from the Self-Defense Forces, officials said.
Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, speaks at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 30.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 28, 2024
Russia says Trump Ukraine aid cut would be 'death sentence' for Kyiv's military
Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador said Moscow had repeatedly offered to negotiate but Ukraine and its Western backers have favored escalation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks via video link at the Kremlin in Moscow last month.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 28, 2024
Nuclear attack unlikely despite Putin's warnings, U.S. intelligence says
The U.S. believes Russia will aim to match what it views as U.S. escalation, and that nuclear force is unlikely — though not out of the question.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
JAPAN
Nov 28, 2024
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
A report on Sunday said that Japan and the U.S. aim to compile a joint military plan for a possible Taiwan emergency that includes deploying missiles.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov addresses a news conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 27, 2024
Ukrainian delegation visiting Seoul to ask for weapons aid, reports say
The delegation had met with South Korean national security adviser Shin Won-sik to exchange views on the conflict in Ukraine, the media report said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin at a ceremony in Pyongyang in June. If North Korean troops sent to the war in Ukraine under an agreement between the two nations are used for anything other than cannon fodder, they may gain experience that could improve the communist nation's military.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 27, 2024
Autocrats challenge traditional geopolitics and strategic boundaries
Emerging "common market of autocracies" are enabling regimes like Russia and North Korea to evade Western sanctions through unconventional networks and barter systems.
Wall Street will regret helping the world burn
Wall Street banks, under political pressure and tempted by short-term gains, are abandoning climate commitments and pouring billions into fossil fuels, risking both environmental catastrophe and massive future economic losses.
Trump's tariff gambit leaves Asia stunned and scrambling
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he attends the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington on Tuesday. Trump allowed new tariffs — including a 24% levy on Japan — to go into effect as scheduled on Wednesday.
Japan and U.S. appoint tariff negotiators after Ishiba-Trump phone call
Economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa enters the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japanese makers rush to mitigate possible Nankai Trough earthquake damage
Toyota is considering transferring some production in the key Tokai region, which is expected to be hit hard in a Nankai Trough earthquake, to the Tohoku and Kyushu regions.
Japan gets a new U.S. ambassador — and he has his work cut out for him
George Glass, U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to be ambassador to Japan, attends a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington on March 13.
Online art scene eager to go offline, at least for the moment
Digital artist Polygon1993 revels in the physicality of nostalgic technology, making art out of materials such as miniature CDs, holographic prints layered with plexiglass shards and a giant custom-made floppy disk.
Tottori takes a bold leap forward in the arts
The city of Kurayoshi in Tottori Prefecture celebrated the opening of its public art museum with festivities such as a parade that drew 1,000 revelers.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.

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