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Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after an Israeli strike, as seen from Hadath, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 16, 2024
Israel strikes Beirut as U.S. says it opposes scope of air assault
Israel issued an evacuation order before the strike that mentioned only one building.
Children at the site of an Israeli strike on a tent camp sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2024
U.S. tells Israel to improve situation in Gaza or risk military aid
It is Washington's strongest warning since Israel's war with Hamas began a year ago.
Israeli tanks on the move in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sept. 22
WORLD
Oct 16, 2024
Israel's demining near Golan signals wider front against Hezbollah, sources say
The move suggests Israel may seek to strike Hezbollah for the first time from further east along Lebanon's border.
A cloud of smoke erupts following an Israeli air strike on the village of Deir Qanoun on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 15, 2024
Israel strikes Lebanon after Netanyahu vows no mercy for Hezbollah
Jerusalem says it wants to secure its northern boundary and allow tens of thousands of displaced people to return home safely.
Members of Lebanon's Civil Defense prepare before responding to an emergency at their station in Beirut's Cola neighborhood on Sunday.
WORLD
Oct 15, 2024
Lebanon rescuers defy danger and lack of resources to keep working
The latest escalation between Israel and Hezbollah comes with Lebanon still in the grips of a crippling economic crisis.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said in an interview on Monday that the alliance will do what's necessary to make sure that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not get his way.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 15, 2024
NATO will not be intimidated by Russia's threats, Rutte says
The NATO secretary-general made the remarks on his first visit to the alliance's Ukraine mission in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Israeli soldiers escort a group of international journalists along a trail just across the border in southern Lebanon on Sunday.
WORLD
Oct 15, 2024
How Israel’s army uses Palestinians as human shields in Gaza
Seven Israeli soldiers interviewed presented the practice of using detainees as human shields as routine, commonplace and organized.
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test, in this undated handout photo.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2024
U.S. to send antimissile system and troops to Israel, Pentagon says
The move is meant 'to defend Israel,' U.S. President Joe Biden said.
Palestinians transport their belongings as they flee areas north of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2024
Israeli tanks deepen their push into the northern Gaza Strip
An Israeli air strike has killed three people and wounded 40 others when it hi the tents of displaced Palestinians sheltering in a hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah.
Projectiles are seen in the sky after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 1.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2024
With an eye on China, U.S. studying Iran's attacks on Israel
Although differences between the two scenarios limit what can be learned, Iran's assault on Israel offers the United States and China some idea of what works.
Antonio Guterres
WORLD
Oct 13, 2024
Israeli foreign minister reiterates U.N. chief Guterres is persona non grata over Iran stance
Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel on Oct. 1 amid an escalation in fighting between Israel and its proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah.
Israeli soldiers carry the body of a victim of the earlier Hamas attack at on a kibbutz in southern Israel, during clean-up operations on Oct. 10, 2023.
WORLD
Oct 13, 2024
Secret documents show Hamas tried to persuade Iran to join its Oct. 7 attack
Minutes of Hamas’ secret meetings obtained by The New York Times show Sinwar’s determination to persuade Hamas’ allies, Iran and Hezbollah, to join the assault.
The co-chair of the Nihon Hidankyo atomic bomb survivors' group, Toshiyuki Mimaki, who lived through the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, attends an online news conference from the city on Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2024
Israeli envoy criticizes Japanese atomic survivor's Gaza comparison
Israeli ambassador said the comparison drawn by the group's co-chair, Toshiyuki Mimaki, "is outrageous and baseless."
Smoke rises over Beirut's southern suburbs from a generator that caught fire, according to residents, as seen from Baabda, Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday.
WORLD
Oct 13, 2024
Israel orders evacuation of more southern Lebanese towns
At least 15 people were killed and 37 wounded in Israeli strikes across three different areas in Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said.
Palestinians sit next to the rubble of houses destroyed in Israel's military offensive in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 7
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2024
Nobel laureate Nihon Hidankyo co-chair worries about children in Israel and Gaza
While the group's co-chair said the prize would give a boost to efforts to show that it was possible to abolish nuclear weapons, he expressed sorrow over ongoing wars.
People inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2024
After heavy Israeli blows, Hezbollah forges new command for crucial ground war
Friends and foes alike are now watching how effectively the Iran-backed group resists Israeli troops that have crossed into Lebanon.
An Israeli soldier stands next to the remains of an Iranian Emad ballistic missile at a military base in southern Israel on Monday, days after Iran launched a massive missile attack on the Jewish state.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2024
A dangerous dance for Israel and Iran
Israel and Iran are in a precarious position, with Israel coping with reduced inviolability after the Hamas attack and Iran trying to maintain its regional influence.
Serhiy Tsapok (left) and a firefighter extinguish the remains of a fire in a forest near Yarova, Sviati Hory National Park, Donetsk region, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, July 29.
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Oct 11, 2024
Ukraine's vast forests devastated in hellscape of war
Both Russian and Ukrainian armies blast thousands of shells at each other every day, shredding the earth in grinding combat that echoes World War I.
Independence Square in central Kyiv
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2024
World Bank board approves new Ukraine fund, sources say
The fund will help fulfill a pledge by Group of Seven rich democracies to provide Ukraine with up to $50 billion in additional funding by the end of the year.
People gather at the site of the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Monday to commemorate the anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack in which some 1,200 people were killed and 250 others abducted.
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2024
The never-ending tragedy in the Middle East grinds on
The red lines — both real and imagined — that once separated foes have been erased as the combatants inflict new and increasingly painful wounds upon each other.
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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