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October 27, 2026
 

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A senior manager with Baidu's automotive robot department gives a presentation during the company's Apollo Day in Wuhan, China, in May 2024. Baidu’s ride-hailing platform Apollo Go, has since deployed driverless cars in major cities including Shanghai and Beijing.
COMMENTARY / World
Driverless trucks show how to keep AI from killing us
By Thomas Black
Autonomous vehicles have a focused job and a coding trail, with a simpler model that provides a “sanity check” to prevent unsafe maneuvers.
Pakistani (left) and Indian border security soldiers take part in the now-famous daily parade at the Attari-Wagah border crossing, the primary international land route between the two nations. The elaborate ceremony has been held since 1959.
COMMENTARY / World
The new India-Pakistan ‘cold war’
By Shashi Tharoor
India will return to the negotiating table only after Pakistan dismantles, comprehensively and verifiably, its state-supported terrorist networks.
Argentine President Javier Milei attends the launch of Brazilian Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign in Sao Paulo on July 25.
COMMENTARY / World
Argentina’s economic chainsaw massacre
By Jeremy Adelman
Ahead of upcoming elections, Argentine President Milei has achieved an economic recovery and price stability but driven millions into destitution.

Japan

A Kawasaki Heavy Industries humanoid platform places a garbage bag in a trash can during an exhibition in Tokyo last December. Japan has long led in humanoid robotics and is well positioned to supply the components behind next-generation automation systems.
Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
The key to 91AV原创 growth strategy: ‘proactive’ economic security
By Eiki Tagami
The challenge is to turn ambition into sustainable growth by strengthening economic security and developing technologies that can compete globally.
Japan
Sanae Takaichi has made Japan impossible to ignore
By Gearoid Reidy
Japan
Japan needs higher interest rates
By Koichi Hamada
Japan
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
By Midori Inagaki
Japan
91AV原创 brewery ‘cartel’ didn’t collude enough
By Gearoid Reidy
Japan
Karaoke hack shows cybercrime is routine
By Catherine Thorbecke
Japan
Japan and India must prepare for the risks of China’s Medog dam
By Stephen R. Nagy and Jagannath Panda

World

Billboards feature Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party (left) and former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar Party (right), in the city of Kiryat Malachi, Israel, on Oct. 20.
World
Is Israel strong enough to go it alone?
By Marc Champion
Opinion polls suggested this would be a tight race. And that was before the U.S. president put his hand on the scales by endorsing the incumbent.
World
Quiet quitting comes to India. AI will make it worse.
By Andy Mukherjee
World
Will France’s mass protests and riots spread across the globe?
By Kuni Miyake
World
The U.S.-Iran war is making world hunger much worse
By Andreas Kluth
World
Australia’s energy transition offers a warning to the world
By Stephanie Campbell
World
War, rates and a global economy that won’t break
By Daniel Moss
World
Liberte, egalite, misere? Why France is burning
By Lionel Laurent
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Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
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By Elizabeth Beattie

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