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Democrats' sweeping midterm victory leaves Donald Trump's foreign policy largely intact while shifting the broader fight over America's global role to the next U.S. presidential election.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2026
Midterms shake U.S. foreign policy, but no tectonic shifts
The real fight, which began the day after the ballot, is over U.S. foreign policy in the next administration.
Members of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations hold talks in the presence of United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (center), U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (center right) and U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (center left) in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2026
U.S. calls for new Europe security framework at Russia-Ukraine talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later said the talks were “constructive and quite substantive.”
U.S. President Donald Trump and other NATO leaders attend the bloc's summit in Ankara on July 8.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2026
U.S. allies need a plan for a lame-duck Trump
Some countries, including Iran and Israel, are concerned about how Trump will react to his defeat.
European Commission High Representative and Vice-President for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas looks on during an informal meeting on regional security and continued support for Ukraine in Warsaw on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2026
Russia ‘pretending’ to negotiate on Ukraine while ‘bombing civilians’: Kallas
The European Union’s foreign policy chief says Moscow has failed to respect the agreements underpinning European security it had already signed up to.
Protesters hold smoke flares during a demonstration in Paris on Nov. 7.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2026
Covert Russian network exploited French riots on social media, EU report says
A separate internal assessment found accounts linked to Israel and to the U.S. MAGA movement connected the riots to radical Islam and migration.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a photograph after delivering remarks at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, reopened after months of repairs, ahead of the midterm elections, in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2026
G7 allies to assess impact of Trump’s midterm setback at Paris talks
Diplomats signaled the results could narrow Trump’s room for maneuver but warned against expecting a return to traditional U.S. multilateralism.
The European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2026
Dutchman and Spaniard in two-horse race for ECB presidency
While no other candidate was proposed before Friday’s deadline, a surprise contender could yet appear, just like current ECB head Christine Lagarde did in 2019.
Personnel wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) works outside an apartment building where the home of a shooter who killed several people in the southern city of Krakow is located, in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, Poland, on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 8, 2026
Poland in shock after six die in Krakow mass shooting
The scenes of carnage in one of Poland’s main tourist attractions shocked a nation that has long viewed itself as safer than much of western Europe.
A police car parks outside Copenhagen Airport as police investigate threats directed at air traffic in Copenhagen on Friday.
WORLD
Nov 8, 2026
Newsroom bomb threats follow escalating European flight hoaxes
Security experts said the threats might be a way Russia is trying to punish European nations that have armed or financed Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an event in Moscow on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 7, 2026
Europe insists Putin end war before discussing Russia’s concerns
The stance risks putting them at odds with the U.S. over the best way to end the conflict.
People walk at Fiumicino Airport, after a Finnair plane from Helsinki was safely escorted to its scheduled landing in Rome by Italian Air Force jets following bomb threats, in Fiumicino, near Rome, on Thursday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2026
New wave of bomb hoaxes hits dozens of flights across Europe
The highly unusual spate of bomb threats affected nearly 30 flights by the end of Thursday.
The 2026 midterms weakened U.S. President Donald Trump's authority, boosting Democratic congressional leverage and altering how foreign governments, allies and corporations will have to navigate his administration.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2026
The Democratic ‘blue wave’ just reset American power
Trump no longer commands the political support he once claimed. U.S. voters have roundly rebuked the U.S. president in a referendum on his leadership.
Excess natural gas is burned off at a power plant in Odessa, Texas, on Oct. 15.
COMMENTARY
Nov 4, 2026
America is making a ‘freaking fortune’ in an energy crisis
U.S. and Canadian natural gas consumers are not facing the economic fallout of the Iran conflict due to the shale revolution and geography.
A Ryanair airplane and its baggage are inspected, after the airline's operations center reported a bomb threat received during a flight from Manchester to Murcia, according to Guardia Civil, in Murcia, Spain, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 4, 2026
Bomb threats cause disruptions across Europe but no explosives found
No explosives were found, despite extensive searches on the ground after the planes all took off and landed safely in different European cities.
Honda's European chief said the Japanese carmaker may rebuild a manufacturing presence in the region.
BUSINESS
Nov 4, 2026
Honda weighs restarting EU car output as new rules take shape
Proposed regulations in the European Union aim to favor locally made cars.
A Liberian-flagged container ship Contship Jet in the Black Sea off Bulgaria on Oct. 28. The ship sank after being hit by naval drones, according to the Bulgarian government, while en route from Haifa in Israel to Constanta in Romania.
WORLD
Nov 3, 2026
War widens in the Black Sea in a test of NATO red lines
Unabating attacks show how the escalating maritime war between Russia and Ukraine is expanding into a major challenge for NATO.
Employees empty freezers at ICA Kvantum supermarket in Sjoebo, Sweden, on Monday.
WORLD
Nov 3, 2026
Supermarkets across Europe report new suspected freezer hack
Danish refrigeration systems maker Danfoss said the incidents across Europe involved its products, as was the case in France last month.
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, gives her speech during the AfD party congress in Erfurt, Germany, on July 5.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2026
As Europe’s right advances, Germany’s AfD rethinks its anti-euro roots
The party’s popularity is prompting debate over how to balance an anti-establishment identity with the need to appear as a credible partner to allies.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends a meeting with Vietnam's prime minister at the Government Office in Hanoi on Oct. 26.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2026
Poland’s Tusk says he won’t back down in top court standoff
The prime minister accused the opposition of stirring up violence in an attempt to destroy the rule of law as a political crisis continues to spiral.
A protester attacks a shop window in Frankfurt.
WORLD
Nov 2, 2026
German protests turn violent as activists clash with police
Demonstrations that began peacefully erupted in violence as night fell and rioters faced off against police in Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.
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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