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A man waves a flag from a car window featuring a map of Morocco that includes the Western Sahara in Casablanca, Morocco, on Oct. 31, 2025.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 8, 2026
What the end of U.N. peacekeeping in Western Sahara means
Western Sahara is largely controlled by Morocco but has been claimed for decades by the Algeria-backed Polisario Front.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2026
Takaichi to skip U.N. climate summit in Turkey
It will mark the third consecutive year that a Japanese prime minister has not attended a U.N. climate summit.
Congolese medical workers carry the coffin containing the body of a doctor who died at an Ebola treatment center after contracting the virus, during her burial in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2026
The world’s perilous Ebola complacency
Global leaders must fund the Africa-led regional response today, or risk paying a higher price in human lives and economic devastation tomorrow.
International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane speaks in a video in October, criticizing U.S. sanctions against her and her institution.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2026
ICC president urges U.N. members to defend court against U.S. sanctions
President Tomoko Akane used an annual report to warn that sanctions imposed by Washington threaten international justice and the rule of law.
An unlicensed mining operation in Toboali, on the southern shores of the island of Bangka, Indonesia, in April 2021
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2026
How to improve global mineral governance
Global South countries should work together to ensure that mineral supply chains deliver equitable economic benefits and protect the environment.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Japan should support the ICC while leading reforms that strengthen its legitimacy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 29, 2026
Tokyo should lead ICC reform, not just defend it
The better path is harder but more defensible: preserve the court, reform its operation and confront the limits of international law honestly.
A U.N. General Assembly committee has adopted a Japan-led resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons for the 33rd consecutive year, with 150 countries voting in favor, seven against and 25 abstaining.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2026
U.N. panel adopts Japan-led nuclear weapon abolition resolution
The resolution received support from 150 countries, while seven voted against it and 25 abstained.
When a sanctioned Russian oligarch’s superyacht anchored in Hong Kong waters in 2022, Chief Executive John Lee made clear the city would not enforce international restrictions it deems unilateral, a move criticized by some as an invitation for sanctions evaders to set up shop.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 28, 2026
Hong Kong has become a safe harbor for international pariahs
Hong Kong is now the connective tissue between Western suppliers and three of the world’s most heavily sanctioned regimes.
United Arab Emirates diplomat Lana Nusseibeh at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2026
Rights monitors raise concerns over UAE diplomat’s bid for next U.N. boss
Pushback against Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s former ambassador to the U.N., has gathered steam since her late entry into the race last week.
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Oct 25, 2026
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
At a global conference in smog-hit Malaysia, scientists outlined how the Earth’s natural systems are buckling due to warming.
An internally displaced family sits at a makeshift shelter during a visit by World Food Program officials to assess the knock-on effects from the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East in Kahda district of Mogadishu on May 7.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
The U.S.-Iran war is making world hunger much worse
The combined scourges of undernourishment, child stunting and wasting have become worse, halting a two-decade trend of improvement.
Dead coral on a beach off the coast of India's Tamil Nadu state in September. Almost all shallow-water coral reefs around the world are at "extremely high risk" of disappearing by 2075 due to climate change, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 22, 2026
Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN
In its first global assessment, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96% of coral reef systems as “critically endangered.”
The venue for the COP17 event in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Thursday
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Oct 19, 2026
World faces nature reality check at U.N. biodiversity conference
Scientists say many of the broader goals needed to halt biodiversity loss remain well off track.
By pushing to delay the next major U.N. climate report, global polluters are trying to weaken international accountability and shield themselves from political pressure ahead of a critical 2028 global progress review.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 16, 2026
Petrostates are trying to hijack climate science again
Any delay would reduce pressure on countries to meet their Paris climate agreement goals
AI-enhanced humanoid robots are serviced at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2026
When AI acts without orders, national security is at risk
These AI systems are doing what they were designed to do: pursuing goals and finding ways around obstacles.
South African jurist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay poses in Nuremberg, Germany, on Friday, soon after being awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2026
And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to the opposite of Trump
ICC jurists have now been frozen out of everything from bank accounts to VISA and Mastercard credit cards and Amazon subscriptions.
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.
People walk past damaged houses following deadly flash floods and a mudslide in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Sept. 21
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 9, 2026
Inside the deadlock at the world’s top climate science body
Such assessments have informed every major United Nations climate agreement for three decades.
Murat Kurum, Turkey's environment minister and president-designate of the COP31 summit, speaks during a news conference at a climate summit in Nadi, Fiji, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 8, 2026
Climate needs same urgency as defense spending, COP31 chief says
Turkish Environment Minister and COP31 President-designate Murat Kurum said every country must show the same responsibility and determination.
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi meets with his Indian and American counterparts, S. Jaishankar and Marco Rubio, on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila on July 22.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2026
Reports of rising powers’ demise are premature
Shifts in global power may become less dramatic than in past centuries, but economic change and coalition-building still reshape hierarchies.
Sony bets on homegrown anime to fuel decades of future growth
A Luffy standee at NY Comic Con in New York
Japan Supreme Court rules 2025 election was held in unconstitutional state
A group of plaintiffs hold up a sign Wednesday in Tokyo saying the Supreme Court ruled the July 2025 Upper House election was conducted in an unconstitutional state.
As JET Programme turns 40, alumni and ministers stress its importance in age of AI
Peter Cave joined the JET Programme's inaugural cohort in 1987 and spent three years teaching in the city of Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Nvidia working with outside firm to identify CEO candidates
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang
Onosato looks sharp as Kyushu Basho contenders emerge
Onosato (right) and Yoshinofuji crash out of the ring in a closely contested bout at the November Grand Sumo Tournament at Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka on Sunday.
今日吃瓜 search for a better public trash bin — and why robots may help
Smart trash cans developed by SmaGO have been installed in Tokyo’s Omotesando shopping district, where they help address the shortage of public waste bins.
As JET Programme turns 40, alumni and ministers stress its importance in age of AI
Peter Cave joined the JET Programme's inaugural cohort in 1987 and spent three years teaching in the city of Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture.
After election drubbing, Trump heads to Asia to show world he’s still in charge
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks near a seal of the Department of Veterans Affairs during a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday.
‘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.

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