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Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Court House in New York City on Thursday, in this courtroom sketch.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 27, 2026
Maduro appears in court to fight narco-terrorism case
Prosecutors claim the ousted Venezuelan leader, who was seized by the U.S. military on Jan. 3, played a key role in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine into the U.S.
Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan, New York, on Jan. 5 in this courtroom sketch.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 26, 2026
Maduro case to test U.S. narcoterrorism law with limited trial success
The 2006 statute at issue has produced just four trial convictions, a review of federal court records shows.
Shizue Takahashi, who lost her husband in the 1995 sarin gas attack by Aum Shinrikyo, offers a prayer in Tokyo on Friday, the 31st anniversary of the attack.
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2026
Victims of Tokyo subway sarin gas attack remembered 31 years on
A flower stand was set up at Kasumigaseki Station — one of the attack sites — and close to the time of the attack, 16 station staff members offered a silent prayer.
Victims of a suicide bomb attack receive treatment at a hospital in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Mar 18, 2026
Suicide bombings show resilience of Nigerian jihadists despite years of war
Many experts said the blasts were a sign of strength and that there could have been a degree of coordination between rival ​groups.
An injured man looks out of an ambulance at a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on Monday following blasts in the city.
WORLD / Society
Mar 17, 2026
Suicide attacks in northeastern Nigeria kill 23 and injure over 100
Three blasts Monday evening followed an attack on a military post overnight, which authorities blamed on suspected jihadis.
U.N. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Ben Saul speaks during a news conference at the European headquarters of the U.N. in Geneva on Dec. 11, 2024.
WORLD
Mar 13, 2026
World in ‘new dark age’ of abuse, U.N. rights expert says
Ben Saul said the war in the Middle East would not improve global security.
The head of the Indonesian Child Protection Commission, Margaret Aliyatul Maimunah, holds a toy firearm with text written in white paint as evidence is displayed during a news conference following explosions that occurred at a mosque inside a school complex, at Jakarta police headquarters in Jakarta on Nov. 11.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
Mar 10, 2026
White supremacist content grips teens plotting attacks in Southeast Asia
In every instance reviewed in Singapore and Indonesia, authorities allege the detained or monitored teenagers had been radicalized through social media posts and communities.
A man identified as Emir Balat is detained by police officers during a rally to stop public Muslim prayer outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in New York City on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 10, 2026
Two men charged with terrorism after homemade bomb thrown at anti-Islam protesters in New York
Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, are accused of traveling from Pennsylvania to Manhattan with dangerous improvised explosive that they used at an anti-Islam rally.
The front page of The Japan Times on March 3, 1976, carries the news of a terrorist attack in Sapporo.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Mar 6, 2026
Japan Times 1976: Bomb explosion in Sapporo claims 2 lives, injures 85
A note left after the terrorist attack at a government building cited “imperialists” as the target.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid gestures during a news conference, following an escalation in cross-border tensions with Pakistan, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Friday.
WORLD
Feb 28, 2026
Afghan Taliban open to talks after Pakistan bombs Kabul and Kandahar
The latest violence erupted after Pakistan’s airstrikes on Afghan territory last weekend triggered Afghan retaliatory attacks along the border on Thursday.
A wounded Afghan woman receives treatment at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Friday after an overnight Pakistani mortar shell hit a camp for people returning from Pakistan. Islamabad’s defense minister has declared that the neighbors are at “open war.”
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 27, 2026
Pakistan bombs Kabul in ‘open war’ on Afghanistan’s Taliban government
Relations between the neighbors have plunged since deadly fighting in October that killed more than 70 people on both sides.
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture. An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings has been found to have improperly handled confidential documents on the plant.
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2026
Tepco employee improperly handled confidential nuclear plant documents
The employee photographed the documents with a smartphone without permission and emailed a summary of the contents to 16 colleagues in February 2025.
Afghan relatives and mourners surround the body of a victim, killed in an overnight Pakistani air strike, during a mass burial ceremony in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 22, 2026
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban say Pakistan strikes kill and injure dozens
The strikes bring a sharp ​escalation in tension just days after Kabul released three Pakistani soldiers in a Saudi-mediated move to smoothe relations.
People attend the 'Light Over Darkness' vigil on Dec. 21, honoring the victims and survivors of the deadly mass shooting during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, in Sydney.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 16, 2026
Alleged Bondi Beach gunman makes first court appearance
Naveed Akram, 24, faces 59 charges over ​the Dec. 14 attack, including 15 counts of murder, ‌40 counts ‌of wounding with intent to murder and ​a terror offense.
Gurpatwant Sing Pannun, a lawyer at a New York-based group called Sikhs for Justice, in New York in 2023. An Indian man charged in 2023 with orchestrating a failed assassination plot against Pannun plead guilty on Friday in Manhattan.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 15, 2026
Indian man pleads guilty in plot to kill Sikh activist
Prosecutors claimed the would-be assassin was part of a group working with the Indian government to target Sikh separatists overseas.
Police officers inspect a site after militant attacks in Quetta, Pakistan, on Feb. 1.
WORLD
Feb 12, 2026
Female suicide bombers and new weapons give boost to insurgents in Pakistan
The ⁠participation of women amplifies a movement ​that Pakistan’s military says has access to a massive cache of U.S. weapons left behind ​in Afghanistan.
Mourners attend the funeral of Shiite Muslims on Saturday a day after a suicide bombing at a mosque in Islamabad .
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 8, 2026
Thousands mourn Islamabad suicide bombing victims as four arrests made
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for ‍the attack, the deadliest of its kind in Islamabad in more than a decade.
People mourn the death of relatives following a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque, outside a hospital in Islamabad on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 7, 2026
Islamic State group claims suicide blast at Islamabad mosque
The deadliest attack in Pakistan’s capital since the 2008 Marriott hotel bombing left at least 31 people dead and 169 more wounded.
A large anti-U.S. mural painted on the side of a building in Tehran on Saturday
WORLD / Politics
Feb 1, 2026
Iran declares European armies ‘terrorist groups’ after Revolutionary Guard designation
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has been accused by Western governments of orchestrating a crackdown on a recent protest movement that left thousands dead.
Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps salute during a military parade in Tehran in September 2019. The European Union has designated the Guard a terrorist organization.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 30, 2026
EU designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization in policy shift
A brutal crackdown on a nationwide protest movement in Iran earlier this month, killing thousands, increased momentum ‌for the move.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
Japanese-language education is at a turning point
The country is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. 
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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