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New Leopard 2A8 tanks operate during their rollout at KNDS in Munich, on Nov. 19. The German finance ministry says that Berlin rejects the creation of further financing instruments for the armaments sector.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2025
Germany turns down idea of new multilateral defense bank
Berlin’s focus is on the rapid implementation of existing instruments, a German finance ministry spokesperson says.
A woman and her relatives look at her home, which was damaged during a night of Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Novi Petrivtsi, outside Kyiv, on Saturday.
WORLD
Dec 11, 2025
Intel and AMD accused of allowing chips in Russian missiles
The lawsuits, filed on behalf of dozens of Ukrainian civilians, accuse the companies of “willful ignorance” as third parties resold restricted chips to Russia.
Ukrainian servicemen fire a multiple launch rocket system toward Russian troops near the front-line town of Pokrovsk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2025
Ukraine sends U.S. new plan to end war as Trump blasts Europe
A first U.S. plan that involved Ukraine surrendering land that Russia has not captured was seen as caving in to too many of Russia’s demands
Aonishiki pushes out Hoshoryu on Nov. 22 in Fukuoka. The undersized Ukrainian's rapid rise up the sumo rankings can be attributed to his elite technique.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Dec 10, 2025
Elite technique behind Aonishiki’s rapid rise to о̄zeki
Aonishiki gives up an average of 7 centimeters and 36 kilograms to his sumo rivals, but the rising star more than makes up for that disadvantage with his technical skills.
A member of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service attends a transfer ceremony of special vehicles from Japan to Ukraine in Kyiv in November 2023.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 10, 2025
Ukraine eyes more nonlethal aid, long-term security ties with Japan: senior official
Kyiv hopes to transform what started as ad hoc, nonlethal aid into a long-term security partnership with Tokyo, the country’s deputy defense chief said.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Palazzo Chigi prior their meeting in Rome on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2025
Zelenskyy says ready to hold Ukraine elections, with U.S. help
Zelenskyy also said he expected to send Washington within a day revised proposals on ending the war with Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump points his finger as he speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One during travel to Pennsylvania from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2025
Trump slams ‘decaying’ and ‘weak’ Europe as U.S. ties to continent wither
The U.S. president’s comments on immigration and Ukraine deepened a rift between Washington and some of its oldest allies.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left), British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (second left) French President Emmanuel Macron (second right) and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz say goodbye outside No. 10 Downing Street following their talks in central London on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 9, 2025
Europe nears deal on Russian assets as Ukraine war talks continue
Ukraine’s allies are under growing pressure to find fresh sources of financing after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration largely stopped aid to the war-ravaged country.
A 9-year old Ukrainian girl holds her cat outside her families destroyed house in the village of Moshchun near Kyiv in November 2022.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2025
Transactional diplomacy cannot bring peace to Ukraine
Although diplomacy to end Russia’s war in Ukraine is intensifying, the goal cannot be limited to a cessation of hostilities.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a news conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Friday
WORLD / Politics
Dec 8, 2025
Kremlin says new U.S. security strategy accords largely with Russia’s view
The U.S. National Security Strategy argued the U.S. should revive the 19th century Monroe Doctrine, which declared the Western Hemisphere to be Washington’s zone of influence.
U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg speaks at the Brussels Forum in Brussels in June.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 8, 2025
U.S. envoy says Ukraine peace deal is close but Moscow says it wants radical changes
Trump says that ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II has been the most elusive foreign policy aim of his presidency.
Smoke billows from a blast near a tank as Polish forces hold military exercises with NATO soldiers at a range in Wierzbiny, near Orzysz, Poland, in September.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 7, 2025
U.S. sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say
The shift would dramatically change how the United States, a founding member of the postwar alliance, works with its most important military partners.
A woman mourns among graves of Ukrainian servicemen at the Lychakiv cemetery on the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 7, 2025
No breakthrough at ‘constructive’ Ukraine-U.S. talks
Russia launched over 700 drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight Saturday, targeting critical infrastructure and triggering heating and water outages for thousands.
The profile of U.S. President Donald Trump is pictured in backlight as he speaks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during a meeting in Turnberry southwest Scotland, in July.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 6, 2025
Europe faces most difficult moment in bid to avoid split with U.S.
In a 33-page National Security Strategy, the White House said Europe risked being wiped away unless it changed its culture and politics.
U.S. officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meet with a Ukrainian delegation in Hallandale Beach, Florida, on Nov. 30.
WORLD
Dec 6, 2025
U.S. cites progress in meeting with Ukraine officials and sets further talks
Both sides called the talks “constructive discussions on advancing a credible pathway toward a durable and just peace in Ukraine.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 5, 2025
Putin and Modi agree to expand and widen India-Russia trade
India, the world’s top buyer of Russian arms and seaborne oil, has rolled out the red carpet for Putin during his two-day state visit.
A nurse sits at the reception desk of a maternity ward in Hoshcha, a rural community that has experienced a declining birth rate, in Ukraine, on Oct. 2.
WORLD / Society / FOCUS
Dec 5, 2025
Ukraine stares down the barrel of population collapse
The country’s war with Russia has left it with the highest death rate and lowest birth rate in the world.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday. From left: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 4, 2025
Trump’s Ukraine peace effort tests his unconventional diplomacy
The unexpected plan to end the war in Ukraine has stirred harsh criticism from Republican lawmakers, exasperation from European allies and confusion inside the administration.
The European Union's executive body says to cover Ukraine's military and basic services against Russia's war, it favors a "reparations loan" using Russian state assets immobilized in the EU.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 4, 2025
EU proposes using frozen Russian assets or borrowing to give Ukraine €90 billion
Russia has warned the EU and Belgium against using its assets, which it says would be an act of theft.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (third from right), presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev (right) and foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov (fourth from right) attend a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff (second from left), and son-in-law, Jared Kushner (third from left), at the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 3, 2025
U.S. and Russia find ‘no compromise’ on key territory issue after Ukraine talks
“Some American solutions can be discussed,” top Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said after the meeting in the Kremlin.
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.”
Murakami says his novels are ‘different’ from AI literature
Haruki Murakami's first book in three years hit shelves in Japan on Friday.
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 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.
Tokyo hospital baby hatch accepts 20 newborns in first year
Hitoshi Kato (left), head of San-ikukai Hospital in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, speaks during a news conference at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building on Thursday.
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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