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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on the war against Iran, at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire with Iran with reopening of Strait of Hormuz
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed “complete victory” with the deal, but questions about its durability remained.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Rutte’s boosterism for U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran is said to have been at odds with the sentiment among most NATO members, with some observers seeing his comments as straying into domestic politics — historically off-limits for NATO leaders.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
As Trump pressures NATO, Europeans question the deference shown by its leader
Despite the NATO chief’s ability to connect with the U.S. president, Washington has cut aid to Ukraine, boosted Russia’s finances and sent economies reeling with his war on Iran.
German naval ships, including the Baden-Wuerttemberg frigate (front), during a military exercise in the North Sea last year, near Harstad, Norway
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
NATO says Europe and Canada spent 20% more on defense in 2025
The spending boom reflects a shift within NATO, as U.S. President Donald Trump has questioned his country’s role and badgered others to expand their own military capabilities.
The U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran has left developing countries using Chinese tech and trade, like solar panels and EVs, better able to weather fallout than those relying on American-backed supply chains.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2026
Is Trump the president who lost Asia to China?
After six weeks of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran and its ensuing counterattacks, it is the countries that bet on Chinese supply chains that are faring best.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2025.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
How did Pakistan broker a temporary truce between Iran and the U.S.?
Pakistan has emerged as a key intermediary to secure a temporary ceasefire and host negotiations to end the war in the Middle East.
Chiyoda is one of the companies involved in the construction of a giant liquefied natural gas export plant in Qatar that was evacuated in March following an Iranian drone attack.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 8, 2026
Japan’s Chiyoda considers resuming work on Qatar LNG project
Shares of Chiyoda touched the upper daily limit during morning trading hours in Tokyo as investors bet on the company as a key player in reconstruction across the Persian Gulf.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2026
Trump, the demolition man of global order
The postwar idea of collective defense is giving way to something closer to protection racketeering.
This handout from the European Space Agency shows a view of Iran's Kharg Island, which hosts the country's main crude export terminal and is responsible for the overwhelming majority of its oil shipments to the world.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2026
Will Kharg Island decide the future of U.S. alliances?
Kharg Island highlights how U.S. military power can act, but uncertain allied support now constrain America’s ability to translate action into strategic influence.
A liquefied natural gas tanker is seen at a port in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, on Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2026
Shipowners eye Hormuz ceasefire window for 800 trapped vessels
The near-closure of the vital waterway has created an unprecedented global energy supply crunch, as Iran tightened its control in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli strikes.
U.S. President Donald Trump, with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks during a press conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
Trump’s threat to Iran shocks global leaders and unnerves some Republicans
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote in an online post that has drawn criticism.
U.S. service members conduct early morning security rounds at the Cryptologic Operations Center in Misawa, Japan. Japan needs its own central agency to integrate signal and human intelligence, as well as open-source and cyber data, to produce actionable analysis.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 8, 2026
Japan’s intelligence overhaul is overdue, not ominous
Japan’s planned reforms would upgrade the existing Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office (CIRO) into a national intelligence bureau.
Participants line up to install OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, outside the Baidu offices in Beijing on March 17.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2026
There’s method to China’s OpenClaw madness
It arrived at exactly the right moment for China’s AI sector. After months of brutal price wars, it gave model builders a reason to charge more for tokens.
U.S. President Donald Trump attends Easter celebrations at the White House on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
FBI warned of Iran’s ‘persistent threat’ to U.S. as White House downplayed risk
President Donald Trump publicly has minimized the possibility of Iranian attacks on U.S. soil in response to other intelligence reports in recent months.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance (right) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban appear on stage together during a Day of Friendship event at MTK Sportpark in Budapest on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
Vance picks fight with Europe over Orban in vote endorsement
The U.S. vice president criticized the European Union for allegedly meddling in the Hungarian election, then endorsed the Hungarian prime minister as a model of leadership.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in Stockholm in January.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 8, 2026
Bill Gates to appear before house Epstein panel on June 10
The Microsoft co-founder has called his relationship with the late disgraced financier a “huge mistake” and has denied wrongdoing.
Members of the United Nations Security Council vote during at a United Nations Security Council meeting on a Hormuz resolution at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
China and Russia veto security council resolution on Hormuz
The vote followed days of negotiations and pressure from a number of Gulf countries to restore free passage in the strait.
U.S. President Donald Trump is silhouetted as he waves upon arrival at Palm Beach International Airport in Palm Beach, Florida, on March 27.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2026
How Trump took the U.S. to war with Iran
In a series of Situation Room meetings, U.S. President Donald Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment.
A man views a slavery exhibition at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. On March 25, the U.N. General Assembly called the transatlantic slave trade the "gravest crime against humanity," with 123 nations voting in favor, three against and 52 abstaining.
COMMENTARY
Apr 7, 2026
Slavery’s atrocities had many global masters
Most historians date the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the year 1500, when Portuguese traders sailed down the coast of Africa.
U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 7, 2026
Iran defiant as deadline looms for Trump threat to infrastructure
Tehran rejected a U.S. proposal brokered by Pakistan for an immediate ceasefire and the lifting of its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, followed by talks ​on a broader peace deal.
A Chinese H-6 nuclear-capable strategic bomber flies from the East China Sea over the Miyako Strait into the Western Pacific in December.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Apr 7, 2026
How should Japan respond to China’s nuclear threat?
The U.S. Department of Defense assesses that China could possess more than 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030.
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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