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A police officer looks on next to a roadblock for a motorcade carrying U.S. President Donald Trump during his visit to China, in Beijing on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
May 16, 2026
Showdowns and spycraft on Trump-Xi summit sidelines
While Donald Trump and Xi Jinping were hailing their friendship for the cameras, it was less amicable for the rival Chinese and U.S. security services.
With U.S. President Donald Trump desperately seeking a deal to end the Iran war before he lands in Beijing for his May 14 to 15 visit, China could seek to use his weakened position to extract concessions on key issues.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 8, 2026
Trump heads for Xi summit overshadowed by Iran war
With U.S. President Donald Trump seeking a deal to end the Iran war before he lands in Beijing, China may seek to use his weakened position to extract concessions on key issues.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance salutes as members of a U.S. Army team carry a flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky, during a dignified transfer solemn event at Dover Air Force Base, in Dover, Delaware, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 12, 2026
Vance treads Iran tightrope with an eye on 2028
A former U.S. Marine, Vice President JD Vance has built a political brand as a noninterventionist who wanted to keep the United States out of anymore long, foreign wars.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who campaigned for last year's Nobel peace prize and has scorned interventionism, says he is now enforcing Washington's right to do what it pleases in his backyard.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 6, 2026
Where’s next? Trump eyes new targets after Venezuela
In the space of a single half-hour exchange with reporters on Sunday aboard Air Force One, the U.S. president took aim at Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Mexico and Iran.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation from the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 18, 2025
Trump vows economic boom and blames Biden for high prices in national address
His speech comes at the end of a whirlwind year in which he has launched an unprecedented display of presidential power.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino presents U.S. President Donald Trump with a peace prize during the ceremony to announce the draw for the 2026 World Cup on Friday in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 6, 2025
Trump all smiles as he wins FIFA’s new peace prize
The award was a compensation gift for a leader who still dreams of winning the Nobel Prize.
The demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Thursday
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025
Trump completes demolition of White House East Wing
The wrecking work will make way for the U.S. president’s $300 million ballroom.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) whispers in the ear of President Donald Trump during a roundtable about Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025
How Donald Trump pulled off his Gaza deal
Seeking an unlikely Nobel Peace Prize and keen to bolster his legacy, Trump’s approach has been different to the blank check he has previously been seen as giving Israel.
U.S. President Donald Trump, in front of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delivers remarks linking autism to childhood vaccines and to the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children — claims that are not backed by decades of science — at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2025
‘I’m not a doctor’: Trump’s autism announcement gives COVID-19 flashbacks
The U.S. president’s announcements linking a painkiller to autism ranged from unproven medical claims to self-proclaimed expertise.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 26, 2025
Trump suggests many Americans ‘like a dictator’
Democrats have repeatedly accused Trump of pushing presidential power way past its constitutional limits.
U.S. President Donald Trump displays the signed bill during a ceremony for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the White House on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 5, 2025
Trump signs ‘big, beautiful’ bill on U.S. Independence Day
“America is winning, winning, winning like never before,” Trump said at the event where he signed the bill flanked by Republican lawmakers.
Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff for policy, speaks to members of the media outside the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 12, 2025
Stephen Miller: ‘Trump’s brain’ who is behind migration crackdown
Stephen Miller’s fingerprints have been all over the White House’s unprecedented assertion of its right to use presidential power to pursue its agenda.
Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump during a news conference at the White House on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
May 31, 2025
Musk vows to stay Trump’s ‘friend’ in bizarre black-eyed farewell
As the world’s richest person bowed out of his role, Trump hailed Musk’s “incredible service” and handed him a golden key to the White House.
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures with a clenched fist as he prepares to board Air Force One in Abu Dhabi at the end of his Middle East tour on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
May 17, 2025
Trump reshapes U.S. Mideast policy. Can deals work instead?
The president proclaimed a decisive break with decades of U.S. interventionism, promising a new foreign policy based instead on the art of the deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump (center), Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attend a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
May 1, 2025
Trump’s Cabinet shrugs off economic contraction, at odds with pledges
Figures show U.S. gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first quarter.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (center) takes questions during a daily briefing at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 26, 2025
White House takes control of picking media who cover Trump
The move came amid an escalating battle between the White House and the Associated Press news agency, which Trump has barred from presidential events.
U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron look at each other during a press conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 25, 2025
Macron and Trump rekindle Le Bromance with a touch of tension
Strains over Trump’s sudden pivot to Russia over the Ukraine war bubbled up to the surface, even if Macron softened the blow with yet another physical gesture.
People demonstrate in support of Ukraine ahead of the third anniversary of the war with Russia, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 23, 2025
Trump shakes transatlantic alliance with Russia pivot
Fears are growing in European capitals that the bond forged from the ruins of World War II is on the verge of collapse.
U.S. President Joe Biden departs from St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church, on the day of the anniversary of the death of the president's first wife and daughter in a car accident in 1972, in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 21, 2024
Fade out: Biden disappears into background
Despite still occupying the world’s most powerful pulpit, Biden has remained virtually absent from the public debate about his noisy successor.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands inside the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris ahead of a ceremony to mark its reopening following a 2019 fire, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2024
Trump plays ‘shadow president’ on world stage
He does not take office until Jan. 20, but he is already acting as if he is U.S. president.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Prior to launch, Japan ‘strongly urged’ China to reconsider missile test in Pacific
A missile is fired from a Chinese Navy nuclear-powered submarine on Monday.
Suspected Asian fraud ring exec served fresh warrant in Japan
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Osaka Prefectural Police have issued arrest warrants for three people, including a suspected fraud network leader, over alleged immigration and residency violations.
Japan might be giving the currency market the silent treatment
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama has issued verbal warnings recently using the same language and the same tone, saying authorities “will take appropriate action at any time, as necessary.”
Japanese teen arrested for booting users off streaming service
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly creating a malicious program and canceling subscription accounts on the Bandai Channel.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
‘Defense,’ not ‘warfare,’ stressed as pacifist Japan beefs up capabilities
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji Training Field in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 7.

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