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A firefighter works at the site of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jul 8, 2026
Russia launches third air attack on Kyiv in a week, officials say
The recent missile attacks exploit Ukraine’s critical shortage of U.S.-made air-defense interceptors.
An American soldier demonstrates how to fly a drone during a training exercise at a U.S. military facility in Hohenfels, Germany, on April 30.
COMMENTARY
Jul 8, 2026
America’s battlefield dominance is under serious threat
The U.S. still possesses the most capable military, but its ability to dominate a battlefield is under threat due to the rapid evolution of warfare.
Modern global conflicts reflect long-standing strategic rivalries and a shifting balance of power, not random chaos.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2026
Today’s conflicts are not chaos but history unfolding
Today’s seemingly nonstop international tumult is not as unintelligible as it seems.
A resident stands at a site of a Russian missile and drone strikes on the outskirts of Kyiv on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 7, 2026
Russian strikes kill 24 in Kyiv region on eve of NATO summit
The attack hit just days after another Russian strike killed more than 30 people in the Ukrainian capital.
Journalists inspect a concept model of the new Global Combat Air Program sixth-generation military jet at the BAE Systems factory in Warton, England, in July 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2026
NATO needs to create its own defense market
Strengthening defense capabilities is not only about security policy. It is also industrial policy.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during a press conference after their lunch meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 28, 2025.
WORLD
Jul 6, 2026
Trump heads to NATO summit to meet Zelenskyy and face wary allies
Ties between Washington and the NATO have worsened since the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran on Feb. 28.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a military command post amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict in this screen shot from footage posted to the Russian presidential website on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 5, 2026
Trump offers to help Putin find deal with Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he also spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte displays charts during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on June 24.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 4, 2026
NATO leaders — including Trump — to affirm ‘ironclad commitment’ to collective defense
NATO members ‌are ‌also set to pledge $80 billion in military assistance ​to Ukraine for 2026 and “at least equivalent levels” of support in 2027.
A woman holds a child near an apartment building in Kyiv that was damaged during a Russian missile and drone strike on Thursday.
WORLD
Jul 3, 2026
‘I grabbed my child’: Kyiv residents face devastation of biggest Russian barrage of war
At least 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in what was Russia’s biggest attack on Kyiv since invading more than four years ago, according to Ukrainian officials.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on June 29.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2026
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy calls Russia’s bluff in Belarus
An ultimatum on drone relay stations exposed the limits of Moscow’s power – and the reach of Beijing’s.
A student carrying paper cranes offers silent prayers for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima in April last year.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2026
Russian envoy to skip Hiroshima peace ceremony
The annual peace ceremony will have had no Russian representative for five years in a row since the country’s invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.
Rescuers carry the body of a person found under the debris of an apartment building in Kyiv that was damaged during overnight Russian missile and drone strikes on Thursday.
WORLD
Jul 3, 2026
Russia bombards Kyiv in deadliest strike this year, killing at least 30 people
The scale and spread of the destruction across Kyiv had little precedent even in a war now in its fifth year.
Scientists from the UJEP university in the northern Czech city of Usti nad Labem prepare a field for Miscanthus plants at a former brown coal mine near Most city, northern Czech Republic, on June 1.
ENVIRONMENT
Jul 2, 2026
NATO project tests perennial grass to clean Ukraine’s war-hit soil
Nearly 4½ years of fierce fighting have polluted much famed farmland.
The 12th-century painting The Temptation of Christ by the Devil depicts Satan tempting Jesus in the wilderness. The work is part of The Cloisters Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 2, 2026
When the other side is framed as the antichrist
When rivals become mortal enemies, the instruments of politics and diplomacy cannot work.
Smoke rises during a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on Thursday.
WORLD
Jul 2, 2026
Russia strikes Ukraine capital with missiles and drones, wounding five
The attack came after the Ukrainian air force warned missiles were headed toward the capital and followed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cutting short a visit to Dublin.
Police escort Serhii K. to a helicopter following a hearing with the German Federal Public Prosecutor in Karlsruhe, Germany, in November 2025.
WORLD
Jul 2, 2026
Germany charges Ukrainian over Nord Stream pipeline blasts
The development moves one of Europe’s ‌most politically ‌sensitive sabotage cases closer to trial.
Members of the Chinese (left) and Russian delegations, led by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, respectively, hold talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 3, 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 1, 2026
Russia approved secret China military training at top level, sources say
China’s covert military training of Russian forces last year was personally approved by Russia’s defense minister and directly involved at least four Russian and Chinese generals.
Yana Hrynko, senior researcher of The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, shows a bird's nest made with fragments of optical fiber, which was found by a Ukrainian service member on the front line and then passed to the museum in Kyiv on June 23.
WORLD
Jul 1, 2026
Bird nests of fiber-optic cables show war’s impact on Ukraine
The nests demonstrate how the more than 4-year-old conflict is reshaping the natural environment, researchers say.
Smoke rises over Gazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow on June 18 after a Ukrainian drone attack.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2026
Is the tide turning against Russia in Ukraine?
There is no guarantee that Putin will seek a negotiated freeze in the Ukraine conflict, not least because he might not grasp the situation Russia is in.
A man walks past the empty display windows of a closed shop in Moscow on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 30, 2026
Russia’s small businesses pay the price of spiraling Ukraine war
Amid huge outlays on Moscow’s war in Ukraine, tax rises, stubborn inflation and nervy consumers are all weighing on Russian small companies.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Osaka trumps Tokyo as both ranked among world’s top 10 most livable cities
Osaka’s infrastructure earned higher marks than Tokyo’s in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Global Liveability Index.
Japanese teen arrested for booting users off streaming service
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly creating a malicious program and canceling subscription accounts on the Bandai Channel.
Long-stalled maglev line finally gets green light from Shizuoka Prefecture
Environmental concerns relating to the construction of Central Japan Railway’s high-speed maglev line had contributed to years of delays for the project.
Violence toward ambulance crews in Tokyo higher in 2025 and rising this year
A bloodstained helmet worn by an ambulance crew member who became involved in a case of violent abuse against the crew
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
‘Defense,’ not ‘warfare,’ stressed as pacifist Japan beefs up capabilities
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji Training Field in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 7.

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