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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin attend a meeting on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka in June 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 9, 2025
Trump says he has spoken to Putin about ending the Ukraine war
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the TASS state news agency that "many different communications are emerging."
Latvia's Minister for Climate and Energy Kaspars Melnis (left) and Rolands Irklis, CEO of electricity transmission state system operator AST, pose with a severed cable after technicians worked on the disconnection of the major power line between Latvia and Russia in Vilaka, Latvia, near the Russian border on Saturday.
WORLD
Feb 9, 2025
Baltic nations disconnect from Russian power grid ahead of linking with EU
The Baltic states have disconnected from Russia's power grid and will synchronize with the EU's system, marking a major step toward energy independence and security.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shows a map of strategic resources and objects during an interview in Kyiv on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2025
'Let's do a deal': Zelenskyy offers Trump mineral partnership, seeking security
The U.S. president said on Monday he wanted Ukraine to supply the U.S. with rare earths in return for financially supporting its war effort.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 7, 2025
Ukraine keeps its Kursk bargaining chip for any Russia talks
Russian forces have, so far, reclaimed only about half of the area that Ukraine took last year.
A representative from the prosecutor's office shows parts of an unidentified missile, which Ukrainian authorities believe to be made in North Korea, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 6.
WORLD
Feb 6, 2025
Ukraine sees marked improvement in accuracy of Russia's North Korean missiles
The increase in accuracy — to within 50-100m of the intended target — suggests North Korea is successfully using the battlefield to test its missile technology.
A Ukrainian serviceman fires a howitzer toward Russian troops, in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, on Jan. 11.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 4, 2025
Ukraine's politics warms up as U.S. focuses on war's endgame
In the past week, one Ukrainian political camp has accused President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's team of caring more about elections than the war.
Orphans and children separated from their parents in Kadugli gather to eat boiled leaves at a camp within the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North controlled area in Boram County, Sudan, on June 22, 2024.
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 4, 2025
Millions of malnourished children face lifelong health woes
Famines and other food crises can leave an entire generation with physical and cognitive deficits, experts warn.
Norwegian soldiers and U.S. Marines work together during a military exercise in Finnmark, Norway, on March 10, 2024.
WORLD
Feb 3, 2025
NATO scrambles for drones that can survive the Arctic
Governments in the world's far north are seeking to overcome the challenge of flying drones in cold, icy weather as the region comes into the geopolitical spotlight.
Donald Trump, then the Republican nominee for U.S. president, meets with Ukrainian Persident Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York on Sept. 27 last year.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 2, 2025
U.S. wants Ukraine to hold elections following a ceasefire, says Trump envoy
Volodymyr Zelenskyy's five-year term was supposed to end in 2024 but polls cannot be held under martial law, which Ukraine imposed in February 2022.
Ukrainian military vehicles close to the border with Russia’s Kursk region, in Ukraine on Jan. 9.
WORLD
Jan 31, 2025
North Korean troops no longer seen on front lines fighting Ukraine
The North Korean troops, sent to bolster Russian forces trying to push back a Ukrainian offensive inside Russia’s borders, have not been seen at the front line for about two weeks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow visit St. Sergius monastery, which is considered the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church, in the town of Sergiyev Posad, near Moscow, in June.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 29, 2025
Putin's distortion of Russian spirituality and authority
Vladimir Putin is merely the latest in a series of murderous modernizers stretching from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great to Catherine the Great and Stalin.
Flue gas and steam rise out of chimneys and smokestacks of an oil refinery in the Siberian city of Omsk, Russia, in 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2025
Russia set to test New Delhi by sending sanctioned oil and tankers to India
At stake is Moscow's ability to keep barrels flowing following the U.S. sanctions, something that could ultimately dictate the country's ability to maintain output levels.
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
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.
Hanna Shelest outside her apartment building in Odesa, Ukraine, on Jan. 20
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2025
I spent Trump’s inauguration in Ukraine. This is what I saw.
In nearly three years since Russia’s invasion, Odesa has moved from shock and fear to denial and, finally, adaptation.
People line up to use an ATM in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized the full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022. Western financial sanctions have weighed on the Russian ruble, which has sunk from 34 to the dollar in 2013 to around 100 today.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2025
Putin’s war is fueling Russian stagflation
For a normal country, a budget deficit of 2% of GDP would be of no concern. But Russia is not a normal country.
Ukrainian refugees, who recently crossed the border from Mexico, head to waiting transportation in Chula Vista, California, on April 4, 2022.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 25, 2025
Trump officials pause programs to let in immigrants, including Ukrainians
Department of Homeland Security officials have ordered what amounts to a pause for a range of programs that allowed immigrants to settle in the U.S. temporarily.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Osaka in June 2019.
WORLD
Jan 24, 2025
Putin ready to talk to Trump and waiting for 'signals,' Kremlin says
The Ukraine conflict has plunged relations between the U.S. and Russia their lowest levels since the Cold War.
The site of a Rheinmetall arms factory in the municipality of Unterluess, Germany, in February last year. The war in Ukraine has highlighted Europe's need for increased armaments production.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 23, 2025
Europe needs a defense production act
The war in Ukraine has already prompted structural reforms and an increase defense spending at the national and EU levels.
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a video conference meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 22, 2025
Xi and Putin discuss relations with Trump, Ukraine and Taiwan
In a video call, Xi and Putin proposed a further deepening of the strategic partnership between their countries that worries the West.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jan 22, 2025
Zelenskyy says security guarantee would need 200,000 peacekeepers
"From all the Europeans? 200,000, it's a minimum. It's a minimum, otherwise it's nothing," Zelenskyy said when asked about the idea of a peacekeeping contingent.
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Japan and the U.S. begin tariff talks on good terms, but without breakthroughs
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake jolts Nagano
A map showing the location of an earthquake that hit Nagano Prefecture on Friday evening, with the numbers indicating the seismic intensity on the shindo scale to 7.
Parts of Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines to be suspended over weekend
Sections of the outer loop of Tokyo's Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line will be shut down all day Saturday, and from the start of service through around noon on Sunday.
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.
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.
LDP and CDP lawmaker groups propose 0% consumption tax on food
A vegetable stand displays prices at a supermarket in Tokyo in 2023. Some lawmakers are proposing lowering the consumption tax on food to 0%, which is expected to result in a loss of up to ¥5 trillion in tax revenue annually.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.

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