While the U.S. military blows up boats it claims are transporting drugs from Venezuela, tankers shipping Venezuelan oil in violation of a U.S. embargo continue to navigate the very same Caribbean waters undisturbed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/venezuela-us-oil-violations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #venezuela #oil #us #drugs #gangs #donaldtrump

U.S. President Donald Trump has been meddling in Latin America in ways harkening back to an earlier era in U.S. history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/trump-latin-america-interventionist/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #venezuela #gangs #drugs

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany is courting support in Washington, leveraging ties to MAGA personalities who have risen to senior roles in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/politics/far-right-afd-trump-ties/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #germany #republicans #donaldtrump #afd #jdvance #marcorubio

Many Syrians rejoiced at the chance to return to homes and lands they had abandoned, but now they face fresh waves of displacement — driven by revenge, sectarian violence, property disputes and Israeli occupation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/world/society/syria-transition-displacement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #middleeast #syria #refugees

U.S. President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions ceiling at 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, the lowest cap on record, as part of a broader effort to reshape refugee policies in the U.S. and worldwide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/trump-refugee-ceiling-low/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #usdonaldtrump #southafrica #refugees

Britain's King Charles has stripped his younger brother Andrew of his title of prince and forced him out of his Windsor home, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/uk-prince-andrew-loses-status/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #uk #jeffreyepstein #princeandrew

Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over two bodies of deceased Israeli hostages on Thursday, a day after the tenuous Gaza ceasefire was shaken by a series of deadly Israeli strikes across the enclave. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/hamas-hostage-handover/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #israel #gaza #palestinians

A stone's throw from Venezuela, in the eye of a political storm fueled by a U.S. naval deployment, fishermen from the archipelago of Trinidad and Tobago fear getting caught up in the tumult. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/us-venezuela-trinidad-fishermen/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #trinidadandtobago #venezuela #us #donaldtrump #nicolasmaduro

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan — at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz — criticized Germany over what he said was its ignorance of Israel’s “genocide” and attacks in the Gaza Strip. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/politics/turkey-germany-gaza-criticism/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #turkey #germany #israelhamaswar

Hurricane Melissa dealt a direct hit to Jamaica's southwestern coastal communities that face a long haul picking up the pieces as a lack of power and communications across the Caribbean island hampers damage assessments. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/jamaica-hurricane-melissa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #jamaica #storms #typhoons #hurricane

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to restart the testing of nuclear weapons has raised fears and confusion in Washington. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/trump-nuclear-testing-curveball/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #nuclearweapons #china #russia

Some neighborhoods of heavily Democratic Washington have a tradition of putting up Halloween displays with a decidedly political tone, with some residents using the holiday to protest the president's policies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/trump-halloween-democrats/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #halloween #us #donaldtrump #democrats

U.S. President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions ceiling at 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, the lowest cap on record, as part of a broader effort to reshape refugee policies in the U.S. and worldwide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/trump-refugee-ceiling-low/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #usdonaldtrump #southafrica #refugees

Families lined up at a morgue in Rio de Janeiro to identify relatives killed in Brazil's deadliest ever police raids, and funerals began to take place for four police officers who died taking part in the operation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/brazil-morgue-police-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #brazil #drugs #gangs #riodejaneiro

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to immediately restart the process for testing nuclear weapons after a halt of 33 years, a move that seemed to be a message to rival nuclear powers China and Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/nuclear-testing-explainer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #nuclearweapons #donaldtrump #china #russia #northkorea

The one-year truce struck between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is likely to only stabilize relations between the world’s two largest economies rather than resolve fundamental differences. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/politics/trump-xi-truce-buy-time/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #uschinarelations #trade #donaldtrump #xijinping

Many Syrians rejoiced at the chance to return to homes and lands they had abandoned, but now they face fresh waves of displacement — driven by revenge, sectarian violence, property disputes and Israeli occupation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/world/society/syria-transition-displacement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #middleeast #syria #refugees

More than a week after thieves stole over $100 million worth of jewels from the Louvre in Paris, details of the burglary and security lapses are coming to light. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/world/crime-legal/louvre-heist-explainer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #theft #louvre #paris #france #museums

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and U.S. President Donald Trump have the facts on their side. Now they need to learn how to tell their story before others tell it for them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/30/world/china-is-controlling-the-global-narrative/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews

Nearly 42 million people are set to lose food aid due to the second-longest U.S. government shutdown, in a weekslong stalemate and after the U.S. Department of Agriculture decided not to use emergency funds for benefits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/world/politics/food-aid-us-government-shutdown/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #food #poverty #us #donaldtrump #republicans