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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pose for a group photo at a meeting on Ukraine reconstruction at the United Nations on Sept. 25.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 24, 2024
Shifting the paradigm in Ukraine
In Ukraine, inaction — the refusal to permit Ukraine’s government to act in self-defense — possesses the quality of death.
Former Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Kuninori Matsuda speaks during an interview on Wednesday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2024
Ex-Japan envoy says North Korea troops have changed Ukraine war
Joint exercises between Russian and North Korean troops are Pyongyang's "de facto participation in the war," said Kuninori Matsuda.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meet on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 24, 2024
At Putin-hosted summit, one guest stood out: Erdogan
President Vladimir Putin has rolled out a red-carpet welcome in his pursuit of partners interested in ending U.S. dominance over the international financial system.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a training base at an undisclosed location in North Korea in a photo released on Oct. 4.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 24, 2024
U.S. says North Korean troops in Russia, possibly to fight in Ukraine war
But the U.S. defense chief and other officials said that it remained to be seen what exactly the North Korean troops would be doing in Russia.
U.S. Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen and Ukrainian Minister of Finance Sergii Marchenko speak prior to signing a joint statement on a U.S. loan paid for by profits from Russia's sovereign assets, at the Treasury Department in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 24, 2024
U.S. finalizes $20 billion share of $50 billion G7 loan to Ukraine
"Ukraine can receive the assistance it needs now, without burdening taxpayers," said U.S. President Joe Biden.
Smoke billows over the UNESCO-listed port city of Tyre after Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2024
Israel and Hezbollah exchange heavy fire as Blinken pushes for peace
The intensifying exchanges come as Washington makes a final push for peace before the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election that could alter U.S. policy.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks at a news briefing following meetings with top Ukrainians officials in Kyiv on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 23, 2024
U.S. defense chief confirms North Korean troops are in Russia
The remarks follow claims by Kyiv and Seoul that Pyongyang is dispatching soldiers to fight against Ukraine.
Yahya Sinwar gives a speech in Gaza City in April 2023. Israeli forces cornered and killed the leader of Hamas in a ruined house in Gaza on Oct. 16.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2024
The killing of Sinwar presents a tricky opportunity
It’s always a mistake to speak of "solutions” in the Middle East, but plausible grounds for optimism can do a lot to dissolve the allure of fanaticism.
Trump has threatened blanket 60% tariffs on China, forcing some companies to consider shifting their supply chains to Southeast Asia.
BUSINESS
Oct 23, 2024
China's exporters run for cover as U.S. election nears
A Trump trade war 2.0 would be a moment of reckoning for many Chinese exporters, whose profits are dwindling under heavy deflationary pressure.
Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine (center) on Aug. 1. Widely touted as potentially the group's next leader, Safieddine was killed in an Israeli attack.
WORLD
Oct 23, 2024
Israel confirms death of heir apparent to slain Hezbollah leader
The Israeli military said Hashem Safieddine was killed in a strike three weeks ago in Beirut's southern suburbs, following earlier reports of his probable death.
An apartment building damaged by a Russian air strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Oct. 1
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2024
Selling out Ukraine casts shame on the West
This war started because Moscow refuses to tolerate a successful democratic, independent neighbor, which also remains the chief impediment to ending it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2024
Indian, Chinese and South African leaders bolster Putin at key summit
Putin is hosting around 20 world leaders for a three-day gathering of the BRICS group in the central city of Kazan.
Fu Cong, Permanent Representative of China to the U.N., looks on after U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood voted against members of the Security Council allowing Palestinian U.N. membership during a Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York on April 18.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2024
West blasts China on rights, China responds: What about Gaza?
Clashes over China's treatment of Uyghurs have become a common occurrence at both the United Nations in New York and the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
A man kneels down at a designated area for commemorating fallen Ukrainian fighters in Kyiv. Ukraine's population has declined by 10 million since Russia invaded in February 2022, the United Nations said Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Oct 22, 2024
Ukraine's population has fallen by 10 million since Russia's invasion, U.N. says
The United Nations said the invasion in February 2022 had turned an already difficult demographic situation into something more severe.
Displaced Palestinians ordered by the Israeli military to evacuate their neighborhoods in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Oct 22, 2024
War has knocked Gaza back to the 1950s, UNDP says
The war has devastated the Palestinian economy and left nearly all of Gaza's population in poverty, with health and education knocked back 70 years.
Russian army deserter and dissident Alexander on July 22
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2024
In a first, France welcomes Russian army deserters
The Russian deserters said they hoped their actions would encourage other Russian men to defy Moscow authorities and flee the war.
North Korean special forces troops take part in training at a base in an undisclosed location in the country in this image released on Oct. 4.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 22, 2024
U.S. warns against North Korean troops in Ukraine as Seoul eyes arms to Kyiv
South Korea, Japan and the U.S. are rushing to address the high possibility of Pyongyang sending combat troops to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine.
Bidzina Ivanishvili, former prime minister and founder of the Georgian Dream party, waves during a pro-government rally in support of a bill regarding "foreign agents" in Tbilisi, Georgia, on April 29.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2024
Georgia's shark-owning billionaire tells voters: Don't risk war with Russia
Memories are fresh of a 2008 war with Russia over the Moscow-backed breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which lasted five days and ended in Georgia's defeat.
Built by Russian energy giant Gazprom, the pipeline from Comprehensive Gas Treatment Unit No.3 runs about 3,000 kilometers from the Chayandinskoye and Kovyktinskoye gas fields in the coldest part of Siberia to Blagoveshchensk, near the Chinese border.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 22, 2024
China overtaking Europe as top market for Russia’s pipeline gas
Russia’s Gazprom exported 23.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China in January-September, compared with 22.5 billion cubic meters to European customers.
Moldova's incumbent President and presidential candidate Maia Sandu attends a press conference in Chisinau on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2024
Moldova votes in favor of EU membership by thin margin despite influence
Police in the country reported incidents including efforts to transport or bribe voters, photographing ballots, intimidation and scuffling.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
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.

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