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Nina LARSON
A rescue team searches for survivors after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in November 2025 near the Thailand-Malaysia border. Rohingya undertake perilous sea journeys every year in search of better living conditions.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 16, 2026
Over 500 feared dead in two suspected shipwrecks off Myanmar, U.N. says
Myanmar¡¯s Rohingya undertake perilous sea journeys every year in search of better living conditions, traveling aboard rickety boats often operated by trafficking networks.
The inside of a car from British autonomous driving technology company Wayve Technologies. Safety concerns and costs have long slowed progress on autonomous vehicles.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 25, 2026
First global rules adopted for self-driving cars, U.N. says
Safety concerns and the cost of developing next-level systems have long slowed progress on autonomous vehicles.
An Israeli airstrike that targeted the village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh on Monday. Conflict and violence were responsible for 32.3 million people newly fleeing within their own countries last year, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Norwegian Refugee Council said Tuesday.
WORLD
May 12, 2026
Conflict created more internal displacement than disasters last year: monitors
With new wars underway this year adding to numerous entrenched conflicts around the world, more displacement driven by violence can be expected.
Domenico Giardini, a geology professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, examines the wall inside the BedrettoLab, a unique underground research facility used to create and study earthquakes, in southern Switzerland, on April 29.
WORLD
May 12, 2026
Researchers trigger ¡®controlled¡¯ quakes under Swiss Alps
Tests are conducted at the BedrettoLab, a unique underground facility in southern Switzerland used to create and study earthquakes.
Military vehicles carrying intercontinental ballistic missiles drive past Tiananmen Square during a military parade in Beijing in 2019.
WORLD
Mar 27, 2026
States deploying more nuclear weapons, monitor warns
Nearly all of the nine nuclear-armed states have begun increasing their arsenals or have announced plans to do so, a report found.
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 5, 2026
Apparent use of AI in Iran war raises daunting questions, expert says
An expert on artificial intelligence and robotics said it was likely the U.S. and Israel had used AI to identify targets in Iran, raising a host of moral and legal questions.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech at the opening of the 61st session of the U.N. Human Rights Council at the United Nations office in Geneva on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2026
U.N. chief decries global rise of ¡®rule of force¡¯
In his final in-person address to the U.N.¡¯s top rights body, Antonio Guterres said the worst conflict-hit areas were not the only places where human rights were eroding.
A woman from El-Fasher cries after learning about the killing of her son and brother, in a camp in Al-Dabbah, Sudan, on Nov. 3, 2025.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2026
U.N. decries ¡®preventable human rights catastrophe¡¯ in Sudan¡¯s El-Fasher
The conflict has been ongoing since April 2023, killing tens of thousands of people, displacing millions more and triggering one of the world¡¯s worst humanitarian crises.
Vehicles drive past a burnt billboard in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Jan. 19.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 5, 2026
Countries using internet blackouts to boost censorship, privacy firm warns
Governments in countries like Iran and Myanmar are emerging from internet shutdowns with a supercharged ability to censor internet access.
A man walks past voting posters in favor of an initiative for compulsory civic duty for all is seen in a street in Geneva, on Nov. 25.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Swiss reject universal compulsory civic duty and climate tax for superrich
Final results from across the country showed voters spurning the proposals that had generated significant discussion in the wealthy Alpine nation.
Volker Turk, United Nations high commissioner for human rights, attends the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Sept. 8.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2025
Concentration of corporate power a ¡®huge¡¯ concern: U.N. rights chief
In an interview, Volker Turk pointed out how seven or eight big tech companies now boast more wealth than the entire economies of even industrialized nations.
A health worker administers HPV vaccine to a student in Islamabad on Sept. 24.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 14, 2025
Spread of drug-resistant superbugs surging, WHO warns
The United Nations¡¯ health agency warned that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections worldwide in 2023 showed resistance to antibiotic treatments.
Police officers in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, in 2021. A 2022 U.N. report cited possible "crimes against humanity" in the region.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 10, 2025
Rights advocates demand U.N. press China on abuses in Xinjiang
Members of China¡¯s Uyghur minority appeared at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to urge officials to step up pressure on Beijing.
People who fled the Zamzam camp, a refuge for the internally displaced, after it fell under RSF control gather for communal cooking in a makeshift encampment near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13.
WORLD / Society
May 13, 2025
More than 83 million people internally displaced worldwide, report shows
Weather-related events, many intensified by climate change, triggered 99.5% of all of last year¡¯s disaster displacements.
A landmine-sniffing rat patrols a mine field in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2025
Pivot by some countries toward landmine use appalls experts
Four countries said in a joint statement that ¡°Russia¡¯s aggression¡± forced them to start moves to pull out of the 1997 Ottawa Treaty aimed at eliminating anti-personnel landmines.
Climate scientists say that global warming is making extreme weather events more frequent and intense.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jan 13, 2025
2024 hottest recorded year, crossed global warming limit
Excess heat is supercharging extreme weather, and 2024 saw countries all over the world suffer disasters that cost more than $300 billion.
Andrew Harper, climate advisor for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), looks on during a visit to a neighborhood partially destroyed by the floods that hit Porto Alegre, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on June 23.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 12, 2024
Climate crisis worsening ¡®hellish¡¯ conditions for displaced people, U.N. reports
Weather-related causes have displaced approximately 60,000 people per day over the past decade, data shows, adding to those uprooted by other disasters.
Israeli soldiers outside the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in central Gaza (UNRWA) on Feb. 8
WORLD
Oct 29, 2024
UNRWA¡¯s role as a lifeline for Palestinians through decades of conflict
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees was banned from operating in Israel by the Israeli parliament on Monday.
A Ukrainian military sapper places red flags next to a part of a Russian cluster bomb while demining a field in the Kherson region of Ukraine on April 4.
WORLD
Sep 10, 2024
Cluster bombs have killed or wounded over 1,000 in Ukraine since 2022
Cluster munitions can be dropped from planes or fired from artillery before exploding in midair and scattering bomblets over a wide area.
Gas and steam rise out of an oil refinery in the Siberian city of Omsk, Russia, on Feb. 8, 2023.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 24, 2024
Russia ¡®killing¡¯ climate, say activists awaiting top rights court ruling
Despite signing the Paris Climate accord, Moscow¡¯s fossil fuel extraction and war in Ukraine have spiked its greenhouse gas emissions.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Strong wind and heavy rain forecast as tropical storm approaches Japan
Tropical Storm Chan-hom is expected to make landfall in northern Kanto between late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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