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At the foot of Mount Olympus, a return to ancient Greek heritage
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At the foot of Mount Olympus, a return to ancient Greek heritage
For more than 30 years, hundreds of people who worship ancient Greek deities have been coming to the area to revive ceremonies whose roots stretch back to antiquity.
WORLD / Society
Venezuela quake death toll nears 2,000 as aftershocks ease
Opposition leader María Corina Machado, who is stuck in Panama after unsuccessful attempts to reenter the country, has vowed to return as quickly as possible.
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Cape Verde, Africa’s outlier in LGBTQ+ tolerance
The archipelago is currently the most welcoming country in Africa for the LGBTQ+ community, ahead of South Africa, according to Equaldex.
Migrants walk along the beach of Petit-Fort-Philippe in Gravelines, near Calais, France, last month. France, along with Spain and Britain, recorded increases in their refugee and asylum-seeker population last year.
WORLD / Society
Jun 19, 2026
Europe’s refugee population stabilizes after decade of growth, study shows
By Maria Martinez
The number of ​refugees and asylum seekers in the European Union and Britain stood at 9.59 million in 2025, little changed from ⁠9.58 million a year earlier.
Ruchira Rangaprasad carries food containers to deliver to vulnerable migrants in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Thursday. Violence by masked groups targeting ethnic minorities flared in the city earlier in the week following a ‌knife attack for which a Sudanese man has been charged with attempted murder.
WORLD / Society
Jun 12, 2026
Belfast’s minorities scared to leave home after violence by masked groups
Groups set fire to houses and cars and targeted ethnic minorities after a ‌knife attack for which a Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder.
Pallet Shelters stand inside a Tiny Home Village managed by Hope The Mission for interim homeless housing in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 1.
WORLD / Society
Jun 8, 2026
Tiny homes see tiny boost for Los Angeles homeless as World Cup nears
By Romain FONSEGRIVES
Visitors are frequently struck by the staggering levels of homelessness in a city that also has pockets of astonishing wealth.
Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, near the Israel-Lebanon border, in late April.
WORLD / Society / FOCUS
May 29, 2026
How Israel has emptied southern Lebanon far beyond the front lines
By Alexander Dziadosz, Nazih Osseiran and Catherine Cartier
The growing evacuation area, along with confusion about ongoing attacks and the eventual extent of the Israeli buffer zone, has made residents fear they may never return home.
Muslim worshipers walk along the Grand Mosque complex under the water-mist fans installed in the holy city of Mecca on Sunday.
WORLD / Society
May 25, 2026
With ice cream and giant fans, hajj pilgrims battle searing heat
By Haitham EL-TABEI
Saudi Arabia’s National Center for Meteorology has predicted daytime temperatures this week would hover between 42 and 47 degrees Celsius in Mecca during the Hajj.
A cook from Thailand prepares reindeer legs in the kitchen of the Nuka cafe in Ilulissat, Greenland.
WORLD / Society / FOCUS
May 23, 2026
The Asian workers keeping Greenland in business
According to Greenland’s employers’ association, five to 6% of workers on the island are Asian, drawn by the tourism sector.
Ndey Ndiaye (center) with her grandsons Fallou (left) and Bara (right) at their home in Mbour, Senegal. Ndey is raising her two grandsons after losing her daughter when the boat she was traveling in capsized trying to reach Europe.
WORLD / Society
May 15, 2026
Senegal’s children mourn in silence when migrant parents disappear
By Lucie Peytermann
The number of such dead, missing and their children is at least in the thousands in Senegal in recent years, an advocate has said.

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.
Osaka trumps Tokyo as both ranked among world’s top 10 most livable cities
Osaka’s infrastructure earned higher marks than Tokyo’s in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Global Liveability Index.
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.
Japanese payment processor’s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Long-stalled maglev line finally gets green light from Shizuoka Prefecture
Environmental concerns relating to the construction of Central Japan Railway’s high-speed maglev line had contributed to years of delays for the project.
The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix’s “Human Vapor,” says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
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.
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.
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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.
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By Alex K.T. Martin

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