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Samia Nakhoul
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on on the day the final steel beam goes into the ballroom, at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2026
Beaten at home, Trump faces stark choice on Iran: deal or escalation
Facing a Democratic Congress able to constrain his military options, Trump has a greater incentive to seek a deal.
Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Likud party headquarters in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2026
Israel’s election gives survivor Netanyahu a path to keep power
With turnout at a record high, Israeli broadcasters put Netanyahu’s bloc on course to win 53 seats, with the opposition bloc of Gadi Eisenkot with 48.
An electoral campaign billboard for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party in Jerusalem on Oct. 20
WORLD
Oct 22, 2026
Israel’s election may change its leader, but not Iran war policy
Israel’s security doctrine now rests on three pillars: breaking Iran, holding buffer zones beyond its borders and using force to deter enemies.
Fighters loyal to the Houthi authorities gather during a rally to recruit more fighters, in Sanaa on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 14, 2026
Houthis’ Yemen advance leaves Gulf states with uncomfortable choice
By securing a position overlooking one of the world’s most important shipping arteries the Iran-aligned group has opened a second pressure point.
Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Aug. 31
WORLD
Sep 7, 2026
Iran’s Hormuz leverage wanes as U.S. economic squeeze bites
After years of surviving sanctions, Tehran is now confronting one of the harshest squeezes in the Islamic Republic’s history.
Iranian-made Zolfaghar missiles are displayed at Azadi Square in Tehran on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 6, 2026
Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if U.S. launches new strikes
Iran has warned that any new U.S. attack on its territory would trigger retaliation against critical energy infrastructure across the region.
A banner with a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump next to an Iranian missile system at Azadi Square in Tehran on July 30
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2026
How Iran is widening its pressure campaign to force U.S. concessions
Tehran’s goal is to convince the United States and its allies that containing the crisis is more costly than accommodating Iran’s demands over the Strait of Hormuz.
A beach in Bandar Abbas, Iran, on May 22 with vessels in the Strait of Hormuz in the distance
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jul 30, 2026
Can China restrain Iran? Gulf states test Beijing’s influence
The Gulf push for a bigger Chinese role is driven by growing frustration, Gulf sources say.
With the Strait of Hormuz already shut, a Houthi attack on vessels or ports in the Red Sea would leave the Middle East's two main oil export routes disrupted simultaneously.
WORLD
Jul 17, 2026
Iran tells Houthis to close Red Sea gateway if U.S. hits power network, sources say
Any threat to the Red Sea and its Bab al-Mandab gateway risks exacerbating the global energy crisis and underscores the explosive risks stemming from a new round of warfare.
Yemeni gunmen brandish their weapons during a rally to recruit more fighters in Sanaa on July 6. A senior Yemeni official warned on Monday that the country's armed forces were prepared to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
WORLD
Jul 15, 2026
After Hormuz, Iran turns to Red Sea gateway as new pressure point
A senior Yemeni official warned the country’s armed forces were prepared to close a waterway linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden if Saudi Arabia continued to attack Yemen.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (center, back) looks on as Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter (left), State Department Chief of Staff Daniel Holler (center) and Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh sign a framework agreement at the U.S. Department of State in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 30, 2026
Israel-Lebanon deal may entrench stalemate rather than end war, analysts say
The security deal between Israel and Lebanon includes something few see as workable: Hezbollah’s disarmament, which no Lebanese government has the power to enforce.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an event in Jerusalem on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 26, 2026
U.S.-Iran deal may leave Netanyahu as biggest casualty
Isolated abroad, constrained by his ally and vulnerable ahead of an autumn election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now finds his political future and legacy at risk.
A mural depicting late Iranian supreme leaders Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran on Thursday
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 19, 2026
U.S.-Iran deal redraws the Middle East, with Iran’s gains alarming rivals
If the deal holds, Iran will see an end to the war, phased ?sanctions relief, renewed oil exports and the prospect of vast reconstruction funds.
A billboard displaying Iran's national flag at Enghelab Square in Tehran on Sunday. The nation remains a formidable and undefeated force.
WORLD / FOCUS
Jun 16, 2026
Persian Gulf recalibrates as Iran emerges intact from war
The region has emerged from one of its most dangerous crises in decades with Iran politically emboldened and Persian Gulf confidence in U.S. protection deeply shaken.
A street in Tehran on Monday. "Surrender is fundamentally incompatible with Iran's identity," one senior Iranian official said.
WORLD / Politics
May 19, 2026
Growing risk of fresh conflict in Middle East as deadlock and pain deepen
The concern among policymakers is not whether a deal is near, but how long tensions can persist before a miscalculation triggers renewed hostilities.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (right) shakes hands with Lebanon's army chief, Joseph Aoun, after he is elected as the country's president at the parliament building in Beirut, in January last year.
WORLD / Politics
May 1, 2026
Lebanon’s internal splits over talks with Israel trip up Saudi mediation efforts
Lebanese leaders remain at odds over the negotiation format and ultimate goal.
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, attends a meeting with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 30, 2026
UAE oil break exposes deepening Saudi rift as Gulf power shifts
The UAE’ decision to quit OPEC has brought years of tensions with Saudi Arabia into the open, marking a rebalancing of power shaped by the Iran war.
A woman holds a poster depicting Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, during an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Tehran on March 26.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 29, 2026
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes wartime power, blunts supreme leader’s role
Tehran no longer has a single, undisputed clerical arbiter at the pinnacle of power.
Iranians ride past a large billboard depicting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on a street in Tehran on Monday.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 21, 2026
Gulf worries U.S.-Iran talks may cement Tehran’s ‘golden’ grip on Hormuz
Diplomacy appears now centered less on rolling back Iran’s missile program and more on enrichment levels and tacitly accepting Tehran’s leverage over Hormuz.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the plenum of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem in January. His approval ratings have slipped and, with legislative elections due by late October, the political risks he faces are rising.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 16, 2026
Despite Israeli firepower, Netanyahu struggles for political gains in Iran war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is paying ?a political price for a military campaign launched with U.S. President Donald Trump that has not delivered a decisive outcome.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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