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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.
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.
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.
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.
Boys fly a kite against the backdrop of smoke rising after an air strike in the west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 31.
WORLD
Aug 31, 2026
Gaza’s children lose simple joy as Israel warns against kite-flying
Israel has accused Hamas of using children and says the kites could pose a threat, years after a wave of incendiary kites and balloons sparked fires in Israeli farmland.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu votes in the Likud party primary elections ahead of Israel’s general election in October, in Jerusalem on Aug. 17.
WORLD
Aug 25, 2026
Netanyahu got his Iran war but maybe not his desired result
After six months of inconclusive hostilities, Israel may ultimately find itself in a worse position than it was before the war.
Smoke rises after an airstrike in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 25, 2026
Israel accuses Hamas of planning drone attacks using kites and balloons
The standoff threatens to undermine a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in October 2025 that brought a tentative end to all-out war between Israel and Hamas.
A person stands on the back of an ambulance at a site destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Aug 19, 2026
‘American Doctor’ shows brutality of conflict in Gaza
Director Poh Si Teng makes no attempt to explain the rights or wrongs of the conflict, focusing instead on the work in Gaza of three American doctors from different backgrounds.
Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrate against Cafe Basimta operating on Shabbat, the weekly Jewish day of rest, as secular activists stage a counter-protest in support of the cafe, in central Jerusalem on Saturday.
WORLD / Society
Aug 19, 2026
Sabbath clashes over Jerusalem cafe expose Israel’s social fault lines
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has relied politically on ultra-Orthodox Jews for nearly two decades, and has helped the ultra-Orthodox exert growing clout.
A first responder searches for victims amid the rubble on the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Ansar on Saturday.
WORLD
Aug 17, 2026
Israel strikes Lebanon as U.S. prepares fresh Iran sanctions
The fighting threatens a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that calls for Hezbollah’s disarmament and an eventual Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 11, 2026
Pleasing no one: Netanyahu puts election first with Gaza decision
Israel will be voting for the first time since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, the deadliest ever against the country.
Japan's famous Fuji Rock festival this year included flag-waving for regimes whose actions contradict the ideals of peaceful assembly and human rights that reflect unexamined political sympathies that risk legitimizing oppressive regimes.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 7, 2026
Flag-waving at Fuji Rock: Conviction or fashion?
Music has long served as an expression of a fundamental human freedom — the right to speak, to challenge authority and to be heard without fear of the state.
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday
WORLD
Jul 31, 2026
Trump says peace plan will lead to Hamas disarmament, but Israel support uncertain
A Hamas official and a diplomat close to the Cairo talks said the progress would be tested by Israel’s response and whether this allowed a broad accord to be reached.
People wait for former hostage Alon Ohel to return home after leaving the hospital in Lavon, Israel, on Oct. 24, 2025.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 29, 2026
The key issues that will shape Israel’s elections
Voters in Israel will weigh in on issues ranging from conscription to the 2023 Hamas attack when they head to the polls on Oct. 27.
A fresh grocery vendor at the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem in January 2025. Since the Hamas attacks in October 2023, Israel has been in a state of near constant war — in Gaza, in Lebanon and most recently against Iran.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 28, 2026
Ongoing conflict starves Israeli manufacturers of foreign equipment technicians
Makers are increasingly stuck with imported machinery that has stopped functioning or can’t be installed, without the foreign skilled staff needed to assist.
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.
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