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Since the First Intifada in 1987, every major flare-up of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has triggered a recession in Israel.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2026
The economic toll of Israel’s wars
Since the First Intifada in 1987, every major flare-up of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has triggered a recession.
Displaced Palestinians attempt to clear water from outside their flooded tents amid heavy rainfall in Gaza City's Al-Remal neighborhood on Friday.
WORLD
Nov 8, 2026
Heavy rain leaves tens of thousands without shelter in Gaza: local authorities
Hundreds of displaced Palestinian families have been seen fleeing camps after they flooded.
Palestinian residents walk past campaign posters of far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir in Beit Kahil in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2026
From Gaza to Ramallah, Palestinians see little hope in Israeli vote
A common concern is that “an even worse leader” could come into power.
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.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts to exit polls, at his Likud party's headquarters during Israel's national election, in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2026
Netanyahu and Eisenkot stake rival claims to lead Israel after deadlocked vote
With votes trickling in, a pair of exit polls have the rival blocs ?tied 51 to 51, leaving neither with the 61 seats needed for a majority.
Billboards feature Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party (left) and former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar Party (right), in the city of Kiryat Malachi, Israel, on Oct. 20.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2026
Is Israel strong enough to go it alone?
Opinion polls suggested this would be a tight race. And that was before the U.S. president put his hand on the scales by endorsing the incumbent.
A man with a flag wrapped around his shoulders emblazoned with an image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks through Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on Friday ahead of upcoming elections.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 18, 2026
In shadow of war, Israelis to decide if hard-right turn is permanent
The trauma of Oct. 7, 2023, remains raw across Israel.
Two girls overlook a camp for displaced people in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on June 23.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2026
UNRWA warns Gaza is becoming an increasingly unlivable place
Gaza faces persistent shortages of medical supplies due to delivery restrictions. Hygiene conditions also remain dire.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2026
Three years after Oct. 7, Netanyahu’s legacy is isolation
The shift in attitudes toward Israel is not unique to the U.S., with international polling showing negative views among voters in several countries.
Displaced Palestinian women gather to receive hot meals distributed by a charity kitchen in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 25.
WORLD
Oct 11, 2026
Hunger and malnutrition stalk Gazans, one year on from ceasefire
Every day, Niyaha al-Masri spends six exhausting hours or more queueing at a community kitchen in the hope of getting some food for her family.
A Palestinian woman with a child walks past the rubble of houses destroyed during the Israeli military offensive against Hamas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in November 2024.
EDITORIALS
Oct 9, 2026
Oct. 7 was a tragedy, what followed was worse
There have been no winners among the moving forces of this tragedy although some actors on the periphery of the fight may have benefited.
A woman visits the site of the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 8, 2026
Israelis mark three years since Oct. 7 as Palestinians mourn Gaza’s destruction
The attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, were the deadliest day in Israel’s history, and Israel’s subsequent actions in Gaza have killed more than 74,000.
People inspect debris in a heavily damaged building following an Israeli strike on a residential apartment in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, early Saturday.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2026
Israel targets top Hamas leader in deadly Gaza strike on anniversary
The pre-dawn strike came on the anniversary according to the Jewish calendar of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
Palestinian children inspect one of several destroyed vehicles following an attack by Israeli settlers, in the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 30, 2026
Settler attack on West Bank village injures Israeli forces, drawing rare U.S. rebuke
The raid came amid mounting international criticism of settler violence, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu downplayed last week.
Israeli right-wing activists supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gather for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, the Feast of the Tabernacles, in a field outside Kibbutz Nir-Am by the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2026
How Israel’s regional neighbors see its upcoming elections
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc is squaring off against that of his main opponent, centrist Gadi Eisenkot.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2026
Israel prevented genocide, Netanyahu says in defense of country’s actions
In his U.N. speech, the leader sought to counter growing international isolation ahead of elections he could lose, as dozens of delegates walked out.
A Palestinian woman and a child sit amid rubble after Israeli heavy machinery demolished homes in Jinba village in Masafer Yatta, near Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2026
U.S. drafted unreleased memo condemning U.K. over West Bank sanctions
The document dated Sept. 8 proposed that Rubio describe the countries’ actions as a series of hostile measures that contribute to antisemitism.
A woman walks near an anti-U.S. mural in Tehran on Sept. 9. The on?again?off?again ceasefire shows how coercive militarism has failed to produce the results the Trump administration wanted. ?
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2026
Might makes right will end Pax Americana
Far from bolstering U.S. dominance, Donald Trump’s embrace of coercive militarism has eroded it.
Palestinian students attend their first day of the new school year inside a tent classroom at a school in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
WORLD
Sep 21, 2026
Gaza students return to in-person schooling for first time in three years
The United Nations Children’s Fund says 98% of schools in Gaza were either destroyed or damaged during the war.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Sept. 22, 2025
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2026
Trump administration prepares sanctions against ICC
U.S. officials want the court to drop its arrest warrants against Israeli leaders as well as a past probe into American troops in Afghanistan.
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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