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Rose TROUP BUCHANAN
A Ugandan police officer monitors the area while guarding ballot boxes and other electoral materials for dispatch at a polling station, during final preparations ahead of Uganda's 2026 general elections in Kampala on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 15, 2026
Uganda votes in fear amid internet blackout and police crackdown
President Yoweri Museveni, a former bush fighter steeped in the ideology of revolutionary violence, is expected to extend his 40-year rule.
Soldiers of the Somalia National Army walk near the front lines at Sabiid, one of the towns they have liberated from al-Qaida-linked militants al-Shabab, in Somalia's lower-Shabelle region on Nov. 11.
WORLD
Nov 19, 2025
In Somalia, a shaky front line barely holds back the ¡®dogs of war¡¯
¡°The fight that we are doing, it¡¯s not confined and limited to Somalia. This is a global war,¡± says Somalia¡¯s national security advisor, Awes Hagi Yusuf.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (center) is flanked by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura (right) and his brother Cesar (left) as he arrives for his immigration check-in on Monday in Baltimore.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 29, 2025
Why are countries accepting deportees from the U.S.?
Several poor countries, mostly in Africa, have agreed to take deportees from the United States who are almost entirely citizens of other countries.
Members of the pharmacology department take inventory of the last boxes of drugs delivered by the now-dismantled United States Agency for International Development (USAID) amid medical supply shortages in a pharmacy storeroom at Lodwar County Referral Hospital in Lodwar on April 1.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 9, 2025
¡®Everything was stopped¡¯: USAID cuts hit hard in northern Kenya
Protests broke out last month after news that rations, already lowered last year, would be further reduced because of the cuts to U.S. foreign aid spending.
Multinational victims of scam centers, who were trafficked into working in?Myanmar and were sent to Thailand, queue for food at a shelter as they wait for their embassies to pick them up, in Tak province,?Thailand, on?Feb. 19.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 27, 2025
¡®Contemplated suicide¡¯: Ethiopians recount horror of Southeast Asia scam centers
The complexes have flourished across the region, often staffed by foreigners who are made to swindle people in what analysts say is a multibillion-dollar industry.
A man harvests opium as he works in an opium field outside Loikaw, Myanmar.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 12, 2023
Myanmar overtakes Afghanistan as world¡¯s biggest opium producer
Myanmar produced an estimated 1,080 metric tons of opium this year, according to the latest report by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime.
Henry Kissinger, alongside U.S. President Richard Nixon, is sworn in as secretary of state on Sept. 22, 1973.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 3, 2023
¡®My blood boils¡¯: Kissinger¡¯s bitter legacy in Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, millions remember when the U.s. bombed swaths of Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War, an onslaught ordered by Kissinger and Nixon.
Bouquets lay against a gate leading to the nursery where one of the Thailand's worst-ever mass killings occurred in October 2022.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 3, 2023
Bereaved families endure memory of Thai nursery massacre
On Oct. 6, 2022, an ex-police officer forced his way into a nursery in Thailand, killing 12 adults and 24 children.
Anon Numpa, a prominent activist and former human rights lawyer, speaks to media ahead of a Thai criminal court's verdict in a case of him allegedly having insulted the monarchy, at the criminal court in Bangkok on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 27, 2023
Top Thai protest leader jailed on royal insult charges
Thailand has some of the world¡¯s strictest royal defamation laws, which shield King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his close family from criticism.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 8, 2023
Vanished, shot, murdered: Laos activists spooked by spate of incidents
Landlocked, poor and deeply tied to China, Laos is one of the world¡¯s most repressive countries.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 9, 2023
Thailand chokes on pollution but greens struggle to be heard in election
Despite the region facing recent record-breaking heat waves and worsening flooding due in part to rising sea levels, green movements have gained little traction with Thai voters.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 25, 2022
¡®You cannot survive¡¯: Inflation bites as Thai election looms
Sheltering from rain near Bangkok¡¯s Grand Palace, scores of unemployed Thais queue alongside homeless people waiting for free meals.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®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.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®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.

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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.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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