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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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) speak to the media during a joint news conference in Berlin on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2026
Russia bombards Ukraine power grid before Abu Dhabi talks; Merz urges Moscow to engage
In more than four years of war, Russia has repeatedly targeted the Ukrainian energy system as winter approaches.
Ukrainian soldiers fire an MRLS BM-21 "Grad" rocket toward Russian positions at an undisclosed location near Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2026
Russian army suffers record losses in Ukraine as land gains slip
Battlefield successes underscore Ukraine’s ability to fight back despite Russia’s increasingly deadly airstrikes menacing its civilian population.
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the White House on Sept. 24.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2026
A Cold War blueprint for today’s nuclear dangers
U.S. President Donald Trump wants a three-way summit with his Russian and Chinese counterparts to talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearization.
A Ukrainian serviceman stands next to a makeshift memorial at Independence Square in Kyiv on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2026
Cyberattacks hit Russia and Ukraine after truce ends
Moscow said hackers posted “false information” on its emergency warnings app after Ukraine reported a suspected breach of its air raid alert system.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi addresses the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore on May 31.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 30, 2026
The naive case for deploying U.S. nuclear weapons to Japan
Bringing U.S. nuclear weapons into Japan won’t help make the country more secure.
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (left), U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner (center), and Russian presidential envoy?Kirill?Dmitriev leave a restaurant in central Moscow on Sept. 5.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2026
The U.S. called it Putin’s ‘slush fund.’ Now Trump may drop sanctions on it.
The fund has long been viewed by U.S. officials as one of the Kremlin’s most powerful tools of international influence.
A French counterterrorism officer deactivates a mock bomb during a training exercise simulating an attack at a railway station in Paris. The goal of terrorism isn’t to cause suffering, but to provoke a self-destructive response.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2026
How nations fall into the terrorist trap
America responded exactly as the terrorists would have wanted after 9/11 and likely exceeded their expectations.
A translated screenshot of the homepage for KNDR.su, an online platform that helps Russian employers source North Korean workers
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 29, 2026
Russia using online platform to illegally employ North Korean ‘students’
Laborers posing as students are propping up Moscow’s war in Ukraine while sending cash back to Pyongyang, skirting sanctions, a probe has found.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with President of the Presidential Council of Libya at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2026
Putin courts Africa leaders at Moscow summit to expand influence
The continent has taken on greater strategic importance for Russia since its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A satellite view of Antonivka road bridge, which used to connect Oleshky and Kherson city, in Oleshky, Kherson region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on Oct. 21
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2026
U.S.-brokered truce appears to hold in Ukrainian town close to starvation
The local truce, brokered with the involvement of Pope Leo, is intended to allow aid into Oleshky and enable those who want to leave to do so.
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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