Trump’s tariffs on India expose New Delhi’s overreliance on U.S. exports but also create an opening for India to pivot toward Asia, deepen economic ties with Japan and build more resilient supply chains. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/27/world/trump-tarrifs-and-indo-japan-convergence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #india #us #indianeconomy #tariffs #indiausrelations #indiajapanrelations #trade
A case of infection with the flesh-eating screwworm has been identified in a person who traveled to the United States from Guatemala, sources have said, amid fears over the parasite's impact on the U.S. beef industry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/world/science-health/human-screwworm-us-guatemala/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth#screwworms #agriculture #guatemala #us #dairyindustry #cdc
Anyone expecting a package from Europe or India will wait longer than usual for it to arrive. Multiple European postal servers and the Indian government announced it is set to suspend shipments to the United States.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insisted Sunday that a meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin remained "the most effective way forward" as the country celebrated Independence Day. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/world/politics/zelenskyy-putin-talks-peace/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin#volodymyrzelenskyy
Donald Trump threatened to deploy National Guard troops Sunday to yet another Democratic stronghold, Baltimore, as the U.S. president seeks to expand his crackdown on crime and immigration. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/world/politics/trump-democrats-national-guard/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #jbpritzker #chicago #washington #usnationalguard #us #donaldtrump #republicans
Antimigrant protests have persisted across Britain, after police were forced to separate demonstrators and counterprotesters in multiple cities as tensions flared over immigration policies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/world/politics/uk-anti-migrant-protests-asylum/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #uk #migration
The Pentagon is working on plans to deploy the U.S. military to Chicago as President Donald Trump says he is cracking down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, The Washington Post reported Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/24/world/pentagon-military-deployment-chicago/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #donaldtrump #usmilitary #chicago
Whatever Bolsonaro ultimately decides, the U.S. pressure campaign has clearly altered the future of Bolsonaro clan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/24/world/politics/bolsonaro-family-dynasty-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brazil #jairbolsonaro
Footage from Gaza's largest city, which Israel plans to seize as part of an expanded military offensive, showed women and young children among the chaotic jostle of dozens clamoring and shouting for food. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/24/world/palestinians-despair-un-famine-gaza/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #hamas #israelhamaswar #gaza #palestinians #middleeast
The White House plans to make available about 20 metric tons of Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to U.S. power companies as a potential fuel for reactors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/24/world/politics/trump-us-plutonium-nuclear-power/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #nuclearenergy #nuclearweapons #donaldtrump
Trump hails new Texas electoral map aimed at keeping grip on Congress https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/24/world/politics/republicans-texas-electoral-map/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #democrats #republicans #us #donaldtrump #congress
Germany’s economy is stagnating, pension bills are surging, the peace dividend has been exhausted, and global instability is now adding one more risk for the country’s youth: military service. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/24/world/germany-military-conscription/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #germany #defense #eu #europe #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar
Looking to bolster his legacy as a global peacemaker, Donald Trump has boasted often in recent days that he’s ended at least six wars. Critics of the president’s record say the truth is a lot more complicated. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/24/world/politics/trump-wars-settled-dispute/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #nobelpeaceprize #nobels #us #india #pakistan #democraticrepublicofcongo #rwanda #armenia #azerbaijan #cambodia #thailand #israel #iran #serbia #kosovo #egypt #ethiopia
The FBI on Friday raided the home and office of former national security adviser John Bolton, one of U.S. leader Donald Trump's fiercest critics, in an investigation officials said was linked to classified documents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/23/world/fbi-raids-john-bolton-home/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #johnbolton #donaldtrump #fbi #us
U.S. President Donald Trump has renewed a threat to impose sanctions on Russia if there is no progress toward a peaceful settlement in Ukraine in two weeks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/23/world/politics/ukraine-trump-russia-sanctions-threat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #donaldtrump #vladimirputin
The U.S. Justice Department has released a transcript of an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, where she said Donald Trump was "never inappropriate with anybody." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/23/world/politics/us-ghislaine-maxwell-transcripts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us#ghislainemaxwell #jeffreyepstein #donaldtrump #sexcrimes
The head of the Pentagon's intelligence was removed, in what appeared to be the latest attempt to penalize current and former military, intelligence and law enforcement officials seen to be at odds with Trump's views. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/23/world/politics/pengaton-purge-defense-intelligence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #defense #petehegseth #espionage #donaldtrump #usmilitary
The United Nations officially declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming "systematic obstruction of aid" by Israel, hours after Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to destroy the territory's largest city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/world/gaza-famine-un-declaration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #israelhamaswar #hunger #un #hamas
U.S. President Donald Trump prides himself on being a skilled dealmaker, but his plans for a Russia-Ukraine summit may have been doomed from the start. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/22/world/trump-russia-ukraine-doomed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin#volodymyrzelenskyy #donaldtrump
A U.S. federal judge has ordered a halt to new construction at "Alligator Alcatraz" and barred bringing more detainees to the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/world/crime-legal/alligator-alcatraz-halt-order/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #donaldtrump #immigration #humanrights