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August 19, 2026
 

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U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Friday. Trump shared a message posted by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on social media offering to host talks between the U.S. and Israel in Pakistan, but the U.S. president has made no indication of whether he will accept the offer.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 25, 2026
Pakistan offers to host talks with U.S. and Iran in Islamabad in bid to end war
Trump¡¯s special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and U.S. Vice President JD Vance, could travel to Islamabad, said one senior Western diplomat.
An aerial view of a cleared patch of the Shakarparian forest in Islamabad. Trees across Islamabad are being felled for infrastructure and even military monuments, prompting local anger and lawsuits.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Feb 8, 2026
Pakistan¡¯s capital picks concrete over trees, angering residents
Trees are being felled across Islamabad for infrastructure and military monuments.
Mourners attend the funeral of Shiite Muslims on Saturday a day after a suicide bombing at a mosque in Islamabad .
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 8, 2026
Thousands mourn Islamabad suicide bombing victims as four arrests made
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for ?the attack, the deadliest of its kind in Islamabad in more than a decade.
People mourn the death of relatives following a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque, outside a hospital in Islamabad on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 7, 2026
Islamic State group claims suicide blast at Islamabad mosque
The deadliest attack in Pakistan¡¯s capital since the 2008 Marriott hotel bombing left at least 31 people dead and 169 more wounded.
Firefighters douse a car at the suicide blast site in Islamabad on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 12, 2025
Pakistan ¡®in a state of war¡¯ after explosion kills 12 in capital
The attack has raised alarm that insurgent violence, confined in recent years to Pakistan¡¯s western regions, has reached its urban centers.
Security officials at the site of an explosion in New Delhi on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 12, 2025
Blasts rock capitals of India and Pakistan, raising tensions
Suspicions?have been running deep between the neighbors following a four-day military clash earlier this year in which both countries conducted strikes on each other.
A supporter of former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party gestures after tear gas was fired by the police to disperse the crowd during a protest to demand Khan's release in Islamabad on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 27, 2024
Pakistani forces launch midnight raid on Khan¡¯s supporters
At least six people, including four paramilitary soldiers, were killed before the night raid was launched.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 14, 2016
Pakistan opposition leader Khan, a former cricket hero, admits using an offshore company
Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan, who tried to oust Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a row over offshore wealth, has acknowledged using an offshore company to avoid paying British tax on a London property sale.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 13, 2013
The dawning of Pakistan¡¯s political renaissance?
Executive authority in Pakistan, a country long prone to military coup, increasingly is in the hands of elected representatives, rather than dispersed among various competing institutions. The political establishment has been revitalized.
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The summer heat hits Tokyo's Ginza District on July 23.
JAL and ANA to coordinate flight schedules for first time
An All Nippon Airways airplane flies past an oil refinery as it approaches to land at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
Young Japanese anxious as Australia slows working holiday visa processing time
Commuters disembark a tram in Melbourne in March.
Takaichi¡¯s punishing workload draws renewed scrutiny after 6?-hour checkup at hospital
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo on Thursday
China¡¯s Unitree unveils ¡®Superman¡¯ robot as fervor builds ahead of Shanghai debut
A Unitree Robotics R1 humanoid robot on display at the company's booth during the Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Exhibition in Shanghai on Aug. 12
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Ariake High School players greet their cheering section after winning their first game on Aug. 7.
The new world of collectible design
Nilufar, founded by Milan curator Nina Yashar, was among the exhibitors at Salone Raritas. Yashar calls collectible design ¡°a free, authorial language¡± that goes beyond function.
Young Japanese anxious as Australia slows working holiday visa processing time
Commuters disembark a tram in Melbourne in March.
At Yasukuni, the politicians followed the script, but the shrine did not
People crowd in front of Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead on the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Unrelenting Russian anti-war protesters in Japan fight through inescapable doubt
Anti-war Russians protest Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in February.

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