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August 11, 2026
 

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Ukrainian service members who have surrendered after weeks holed up at Azovstal steel works are seen inside a bus, which arrived under escort of the pro-Russian military at a detention facility in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the settlement of Olenivka in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine on May 17, 2022.
WORLD
Aug 11, 2026
Ukrainian prisoners recount torture, sexual abuse while in Russian detention
More than 95% of Ukrainian prisoners of war interviewed reported experiencing torture or ill-treatment, according to a U.N. official.
Catholic nuns and Christian worshippers attend mass at the Latin Monastery in the Palestinian Christian town of Taybeh, northeast of the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in June.
WORLD
Aug 8, 2026
Exodus: West Bank hardships drive out Palestinian Christians
Since the Gaza war began, attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank have become an almost daily occurrence.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks while U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick listen during an event at the White House in Washington on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2026
Trump¡¯s new attack on birthright citizenship faces uphill legal battle
The Republican ?president has for years threatened to tighten birthright citizenship as part of his restrictive immigration agenda.
An inmate looks out the window of his prison cell as he tries to stay cool during a heat wave in France last month.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 7, 2026
Heat waves expose overcrowding crisis in Europe¡¯s aging prisons
Rising temperatures have led to rising tempers, with a lack of ways to cool down causing more fights among inmates and confrontations with staff.
Supporters of Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen pray outside the U.N. in New York last month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 7, 2026
Anguish and hope: why a Tibetan set himself on fire in New York
No one knew what Lobga Rangzen was planning. Not the monk who was his friend of 30 years, not his niece in New York.
A Cockroach Janta Party supporter sits at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on July 23, during the protest to demand the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged NEET exam irregularities.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2026
Indian students face online harassment weeks after protests end
Online harassment has long been a complaint among critics of Modi¡¯s government, particularly women and political activists, who frequently report threats and abuse on social media.
Japan's famous Fuji Rock festival this year included flag-waving for regimes whose actions contradict the ideals of peaceful assembly and human rights that reflect unexamined political sympathies that risk legitimizing oppressive regimes.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 7, 2026
Flag-waving at Fuji Rock: Conviction or fashion?
Music has long served as an expression of a fundamental human freedom ¡ª the right to speak, to challenge authority and to be heard without fear of the state.
A graffiti demanding then-Gov. Angel Aguirre¡¯s resignation in El Zocalo square in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico, in 2014. The Mexican public prosecutor¡¯s office announced on Thursday the arrest of the former governor.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2026
Ex-Mexican governor held for allegedly destroying evidence tied to 43 missing students
The case, considered one of the country¡¯s worst human-rights atrocities, has been marred by missteps ?and interference.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Thursday aimed at denying citizenship to certain people born in the U.S., his second attempt to curb birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court knocked down an earlier directive.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2026
Trump signs orders to limit U.S. birthright citizenship, despite Supreme Court ruling
Limiting birthright citizenship has been one of the top priorities in the Republican president¡¯s crackdown on immigration.
U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions from the media after signing an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 5, 2026
Trump vowed to ¡®bring free speech back.¡¯ Judges in 75 cases ruled he has stifled it.
U.S. President Donald Trump administration officials have repeatedly called federal judges ruling against them ¡°activists¡± interfering with the president¡¯s executive authority.
A surveillance camera is seen near a Chinese flag in Shanghai on Aug. 2, 2022.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 5, 2026
How China keeps tabs on foreigners
A futuristic dashboard ¡ª like something from the movie ¡°Minority Report¡± ¡ª that appeared to track foreigners in a city was uncovered by an Amsterdam-based cybersecurity researcher.
The Manga One app operated by publisher Shogakukan. A third-party panel at the publisher said Monday that the company's manga app editorial department had "encouraged and supported the violation of human rights" of a woman who had been subject to sexual misconduct by a male manga artist.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 4, 2026
Third-party probe finds Shogakukan ¡®encouraged¡¯ human rights violations
The published hired a male manga artist who had committed sexual misconduct as an author for a new series under a different pseudonym.
Rohingya refugees hold a rally inside a refugee camp in Cox¡¯s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Aug. 25 last year, marking the eighth anniversary of their forced exodus from Myanmar.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2026
The Rohingya drown while ASEAN debates oil
People do not board unseaworthy boats because they misjudge the tides. They board because remaining has become its own form of drowning.
Zhang Yabo, a former police officer tasked with enforcing China¡¯s campaign to surveil, detain and indoctrinate the Uyghur population, shows a photo of his baptism as a Roman Catholic in April 2025 on his laptop, in southern Germany on June 24.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 30, 2026
He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he¡¯s a victim, too.
Former police officer Zhang Yabo described Xinjiang as a giant prison that imprisoned not only countless innocent Uyghurs ¡°but also the souls of those ordered to enforce it.¡±
The entrance to the Have a Nice Stay bookstore on Wednesday
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 29, 2026
Hong Kong independent bookstores to close after police raid
Police searched the two bookshops this month and arrested five people on suspicion of displaying and selling ¡°items with seditious intent.¡±
Under U.S. President Donald Trump, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been tasked with rooting out what the administration calls illegal diversity, equity and inclusion practices that it says gave preferential treatment to women and racial minorities in hiring and promotions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2026
Trump¡¯s diversity crackdown reverberates through U.S. boardrooms
Appointments of women ?and racial minorities to S&P 500 boards have dropped to their lowest level in more than a decade.
International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane speaks to reporters in the city of Osaka on Monday.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2026
ICC president seeks Â鶹´«Ã½ aid to counter Trump push for Asian members¡¯ exit
Washington has criticized the ICC for war crime investigations targeting U.S. troops and issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Makoto Saito (left) ¡ª co-head of the legal team representing the family of Koki Miyata, a man who was acquitted of a 1985 murder after a retrial in 2019 ¡ª speaks during a news conference after a ruling by the Fukuoka High Court on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 28, 2026
Kumamoto ordered to pay damages over wrongful conviction in 1985 murder case
The Kumamoto Prefectural Police investigation of the case was ruled unlawful as it was conducted with the aim of extracting a confession from the suspect who was acquitted in 2019.
The International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands, began operating in 2002.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 28, 2026
Chad says will withdraw from the International Criminal Court
It accused the ICC of concentrating on African countries.
Rohingya refugees evicted from their homes are seen inside a truck as they are taken by Malaysian police, in front of the office of the U.N. refugee agency in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2026
Malaysia detains over 100 Rohingya refugees seeking shelter at UNHCR
The refugees said they were driven out of their homes by local residents in the northern state of Penang and had traveled to Kuala Lumpur to seek assistance from the U.N. agency.
America¡¯s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide
The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.
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.
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.
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.
¡®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.
¡®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.
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.
Speaking Japanese at the movies with ¡®Chiikawa¡¯
A "Chiikawa The Movie" poster is seen at Toho Cinemas in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.

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