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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.”
The recent arrest of a U.S. Army soldier in the U.K. over suspected links to Russian espionage operations comes as Western governments are increasingly highlighting the threat of Russian spying and sabotage.
WORLD
Nov 11, 2026
U.K. arrests U.S. Army soldier over Russia spying allegations
The arrest comes as governments are increasingly highlighting the threat of Russian espionage, as Moscow seeks to intimidate supporters of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with the director of Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service Yuri Chikhanchin in Moscow on Nov. 5.
WORLD / Society
Nov 10, 2026
The war Putin wanted to keep away is coming home to Russia
Air-raid sirens signaling the threat of missile or drone strikes have become a daily occurrence for millions of residents in most of central Russia.
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.
Serhiy and Larysa Ryndovy during their reunion outside a hospital in Kyiv after Serhiy was evacuated on a humanitarian mission from the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky to Ukrainian-controlled territory, marking the first time they had seen each other in four and a half years, on Thursday.
WORLD
Nov 10, 2026
Tears and joy as Ukrainian couple divided by occupation meet again
After four and a half years of being trapped, the husband was evacuated during a ceasefire from Oleshky on Oct. 30 with hundreds of other residents.
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.
Local residents remove debris from a vehicle outside a damaged residential building following a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2026
Russia and Ukraine envoys to talk ceasefire monitoring and territory
The meeting marks a resumption of talks put on hold in February when the Trump administration’s focus shifted to the Iran war.
Hotel owner Denys Katyukha, who fled Ukraine to Germany and whose two properties, including the Admiral Hotel, were confiscated by Russia after it occupied territory along the Sea of Azov, poses for a picture after an interview in Cologne, Germany, on Sept. 1.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2026
Russia has seized dozens of Ukrainian hotels. One owner is fighting back.
In a Ukrainian civil court Russia doesn’t recognize, businessman Denys Katyukha has secured a $5.1 million judgment Russia will likely never pay.
A South Korean battle tank takes part in a live-fire exercise at a defense expo at a military base in Pocheon, South Korea, in September 2022.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2026
South Korea’s military ambitions get a reality check
Lee’s decision to push for a timetable to take wartime operational control is a bold but ultimately fraught plan.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and others attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's second term in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2026
The rise of the global oligarchic world order
The question is thus no longer whether oligarchs will rule the world, but rather what kind of world they are building.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a binder as he stands next to Chinese leader Xi Jinping before Xi delivers a speech during a state dinner at the White House in Washington on Sept. 24.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 9, 2026
Trump-Xi-Putin trilateral summit moves closer to reality
U.S. President Donald Trump said talks with China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin were likely to be held at next week’s APEC summit.
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was released from detention in Russia, waves as he disembarks the aircraft upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on Aug. 1, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2026
Evan Gershkovich on prison, Russia and liberty
The reporter was the first U.S. journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War before being freed in 2024.
Ukrainian forces use an American-made reconnaissance drone to hunt for Russian forces in Donetsk last year.
WORLD
Nov 9, 2026
Hacked records show 400,000 Russians killed in war on Ukraine
The material, obtained by a Belarusian pro-opposition group and a Ukrainian hacker operation, gives rare insight into the war’s true cost for Russia.
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.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, on Oct. 18. Zelenskyy has expressed hope that the outcome of the U.S. midterm election will boost support for Kyiv and help end Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 6, 2026
U.S. midterms offer hope on new aid for Ukraine, analysts say
The Democratic sweep of the elections could also bring about greater scrutiny of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Russia policies.
The logo of Japan Tobacco at its headquarters in Tokyo
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 6, 2026
Putin seizes Japan Tobacco assets, further straining relations with Japan
The order impacts four manufacturing plants and has drawn immediate protest from Tokyo.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with members of the Russian government via videoconference in Moscow on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Nov 6, 2026
Vladimir Putin calls out nations opposing Russia’s return to international sports
Several countries have said their national teams will not play against Russia following a decision by sport’s highest court to readmit Russian teams to international ice hockey.
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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