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A Palestinian man sits at the site of an overnight Israeli military strike on structures and tents housing displaced families, which killed 10 Palestinians, in Gaza City on May 28.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 5, 2026
How Trump¡¯s ceasefires are failing to stop Middle East violence
The continued violence prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to comment that ceasefires in the Middle East were "shooting in a more moderate manner" rather than a halt in fighting.
Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Wednesday.
WORLD
May 29, 2026
Netanyahu directs Israeli forces to expand Gaza control to 70%
Israel effectively controls an estimated 64% of ?the Gaza Strip, bombarded to ruins by Israel's two-year military assault that followed the 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel.
Palestinians pass by destroyed buildings during Eid.
WORLD
May 28, 2026
No feasts and no joy: Gazans mark a dark Eid
Despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, Israeli airstrikes are still common in Gaza, where most of the population depends on aid for basic needs, according to the United Nations.
U.S. President Donald Trump and others attend the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington on Feb. 19.
WORLD
May 28, 2026
Board of Peace official Gaza fund is empty despite pledges, source says
Since the board was set up, its fund ¡ª administered by the World Bank and endorsed by the United Nations ¡ª has received no money from donors, the source said.
Mourners carry the body of Hamas leader Mohammed Odeh and other Palestinians in a funeral procession in Gaza City on Wednesday, a day after his targeted assassination by the Israeli army.
WORLD
May 28, 2026
Palestinians mourn slain Hamas militant chief as Israel escalates Gaza attacks
The Israeli military said Mohammad Odeh was killed in a targeted attack on Tuesday night, just over a week after his predecessor was killed.
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Nabatieh on Monday.
WORLD
May 26, 2026
Israel will intensify Lebanon strikes amid U.S.-Iran deal talks
Iran has demanded the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon as part of any peace agreement with the U.S. that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Jared Kushner (left) and Steve Witkoff, special peace envoys, take part in a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran on April 12 in Islamabad.
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2026
The high cost of Donald Trump¡¯s crony diplomacy
Together, Kushner and Witkoff have spearheaded negotiations on Ukraine, Gaza and Iran.
A Palestinian boy inspects the site of an Israeli strike in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
May 16, 2026
U.S. may ask Israel to put Palestinian tax money toward Trump¡¯s Gaza plan
The prospect of the Palestinians' own tax money being repurposed toward Trump's Gaza rebuilding plan could further sideline the Palestinian Authority.
A U.S. military member sits outside the Civil-Military Coordination Center, on the day of a visit from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, last October.
WORLD
May 2, 2026
U.S. to close its flagship Gaza mission as Trump plan stalls
Diplomats said the move underscores the difficulties facing U.S. efforts to oversee the ?truce and coordinate on aid.
People wait to fetch drinking water at a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip on April 10
WORLD
Apr 28, 2026
Israel using water access as ¡¯weapon¡¯ in Gaza, report says
Doctors Without Borders has warned that Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of water.
Yair Lapid (right) and Naftali Bennett during a weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sept. 18, 2022.The new party they formed, called "BeYachad" meaning "together" in Hebrew, has not released a formal policy platform.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 28, 2026
Netanyahu¡¯s rivals are joining forces. Would they shift Israel¡¯s security policy?
The new party from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's top rivals ¡ª right-leaning?Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid ¡ª is called "BeYachad," or "together" in Hebrew.
A Palestinian man casts his ballot at a polling station during municipal elections in the Palestinian town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2026
Abbas loyalists win Palestinian municipal elections, including some seats in Gaza
Saturday's ballot marked the first elections of any ?kind in the Gaza ?Strip since 2006 and the first Palestinian polls since the Gaza war began more than ?two years.
A Palestinian woman registers before casting her ballot at a polling station in the village of Beit Furik, southeast of the Israel-occupied West Bank city of Nablus, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 25, 2026
Palestinian local elections give some Gazans first chance to vote in years
The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority hopes the symbolic inclusion of the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah will reinforce its claim to ?authority over the territory.
Fadel Al-Naji, 14, who lost both legs, sits beside his brother Amir Al-Naji, 11, who lost an eye, after they were injured in an Israeli strike, at their home in Gaza City.
WORLD / Society
Apr 17, 2026
Gaza¡¯s war amputees short of prostheses under Israeli restrictions
Such is the need for prosthetic limbs that two medical centers said they were trying to reuse old prosthetic limbs recovered from people killed in the war.
People inspect the remnants of an Iranian missile that landed in a settlement in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 10, 2026
As U.S. and Iran talk truce, Israel digs in for a ¡®forever war¡¯
Creating "buffer zones" in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon reflects a strategic shift that puts Israel in a semipermanent state of war, Israeli military and defense officials said.
The maternal uncle of Bissan, who was evacuated as a premature baby during the two-year Israeli offensive for treatment in Egypt, plays with her after she returned to Gaza as her Palestinian mother Sundus al-Kurd reaches her arms out, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Apr 2, 2026
Babies evacuated from Gaza two years ago returned to their overjoyed parents
Eleven children, now toddlers, were reunited with their families in Gaza as part of ?a U.N.-organized mission that brought tears of joy and celebration.
Palestinians inspect a burned vehicle and tractor following an attack by Israeli settlers in the northern outskirts of Tayasir village near the occupied West Bank town of Tubas on March 31.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 1, 2026
Applying Israel¡¯s death penalty law would be a ¡®war crime¡¯: U.N.
Under the new law, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank convicted by military courts of carrying out deadly attacks classified as "terrorism" will face the death penalty.
Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, speaks during a parliamentary session in Jerusalem on Monday as Israel's parliament passes a law that makes the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 31, 2026
Israel passes death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
The law, which has drawn international criticism of Israel, would only apply to Israelis convicted of murder whose attacks aimed at "ending Israel's existence."
The site of an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted Beirut's southern suburbs on Saturday
WORLD / Politics
Mar 15, 2026
Israel and Lebanon to talk as war with Hezbollah rages, Haaretz reports
Three Lebanese officials said Beirut is forming a delegation for talks but no date has been set.
Khadar Hussein Abdi, Somaliland¡¯s minister of the presidency, at his office in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on Feb. 12
WORLD
Mar 11, 2026
Israel plans new foothold on the Red Sea to fight the Houthis
So far the Houthis have held back on attacking ships, but have suggested they could enter the war.
A bleak prognosis for Japan¡¯s demographic future
Japan¡¯s population decline continues to accelerate despite some modest positive signs, highlighting the need for broader social, economic and cultural changes to raise the birth rate.
How Japan created its naphtha supply bottleneck
Japan received 93% of its oil via the Strait of Hormuz prior to the Feb. 28 start of the Iran war.
Japan likely sold Treasurys to fund yen intervention
Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Atsushi Mimura speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 1 following reports of Japan's possible intervention in the currency market.
Is an honorable U.S. surrender to Iran inevitable?
An F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea on Feb. 15, shortly before the start of hostilities on Feb. 28.
J-pop group Arashi takes its final bow at Tokyo Dome
J-pop group Arashi ended its long career with a final nationwide tour and the last concert took place in Tokyo on May 31.
How Japan created its naphtha supply bottleneck
Japan received 93% of its oil via the Strait of Hormuz prior to the Feb. 28 start of the Iran war.
¡®Fujiko¡¯ transforms a mother¡¯s resilience into festival gold
¡°Fujiko¡± stars Yuki Katayama (left) as a scrappy single mother who fights for her autonomy in 1970s and ¡¯80s Japan.
Japan should prepare for an intense typhoon season this year, experts say
Elevated water levels are seen along the Tama River in Kawasaki's Tama Ward as Tropical Storm Jangmi brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Kanto region Wednesday.
The LDP wants another coalition partner. Will it happen?
Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People (DPP), delivers a question during a House of Representatives plenary session on May 25. Making the DPP a coalition member would make it easier for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (above left) to drive forward her legislative agenda.
Japan¡¯s Cannes moment signals a new global push
Tao Okamoto (left) and Virginie Efira (right) shared the Cannes Film Festival¡¯s best actress honor for their roles in Ryusuke Hamaguchi¡¯s ¡°All of a Sudden,¡± a coproduction between Japan, France, Belgium and Germany.

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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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Community programs and tracking systems are expanding across Japan as local governments search for ways to prevent dementia-related disappearances.
He told his wife he was ¡®coming home.¡¯ Then he disappeared.
By Alex K.T. Martin

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