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In a projection booth about two meters by two meters, a reel of 35mm film spins with a rhythmic clacking sound. The light emitted from the projector reaches the screen, and a story starts to unfold at Waseda Shochiku, a historic movie theater in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo.

The Pentagon is evaluating its military footprint in the Middle East in an early sign of the Iran war’s potential to transform the U.S. presence in the region, according to eight people, including officials and others familiar with the matter.

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, Carney's office said, as Canada tries to hash out a last-minute deal to avert new 50% tariffs from taking effect at midnight on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that there were no talks ongoing with Iran, leaving the simmering conflict in the Middle East and control of the Strait of Hormuz stuck in limbo.

Russia warned that the U.K. would face “consequences for which it will have to answer” after reports that Kyiv used drones made by British companies to carry out strikes inside Russian territory. “London is deliberately opting for an escalation,” the Russian embassy in London said in a statement Monday. The deeper the U.K.’s involvement in the conflict and the greater its support for Kyiv, ...

DAMASCUS, Syria – Israel bombed an airbase in Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, drawing condemnation from Turkey and criticism from a U.S. envoy who called it an "unnecessary escalation."

DUBAI – Iran will shift to a “fully offensive” military posture because efforts to negotiate a permanent end to the war with the U.S. have stalled, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, as Washington ruled out extending a temporary ceasefire agreement.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The death toll from the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached 2,325, making it the deadliest in the country's history, the Public Health Institute in Kinshasa reported on Monday. In the Congo's previous largest Ebola outbreak between 2018 and 2020, 2,299 people died. The number of confirmed cases has risen to 4,945, according to the ...

MADRID – Hundreds of migrants who recently entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta staged a protest on a popular urban beach on Sunday, urging Spanish authorities to grant them asylum instead of sending them back to Morocco. They were among the estimated 5,000 to 8,000 who remain in Ceuta after ​the mass border crossing two weeks ago that saw over 72,000 people surge into the tiny territory of about 80,000. The vast majority returned voluntarily in the following days.

MILAN – Thieves stole four artworks by 15th century painter Antonello da Messina from a museum in his Sicilian hometown, a loss to the island's cultural heritage that a local councillor described as a "blow to the ​heart."

BUDAPEST, Hungary – A dozen people were killed and at least 10 seriously injured after a Polish bus carrying 57 pilgrims veered off a motorway in eastern Hungary, in an accident that a survivor described as "unimaginable".

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Sunday that warning shots had been fired ​when North Korean soldiers violated the military demarcation line between the countries, prompting ⁠them to return. The Yonhap news agency reported earlier ‌on Sunday that warning ​shots had been fired last week, citing an unnamed source.

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed the deepening of ties with Russia in a message to President Vladimir Putin as Pyongyang marked the anniversary of independence from Japan’s colonial rule, KCNA state news agency said Sunday.

SYDNEY – Australia's New South Wales state will start a gun buyback in November, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday, part of the national response ​to a shooting spree that killed 15 at a Jewish festival in Sydney, the state capital.

BERLIN - If it weren’t for the easily missed informational plaque, the site of Adolf Hitler’s demise could be mistaken for a normal parking lot.

CALI, Colombia – At a flattened apartment block known as Los Cocos in northern Venezuela, civilians toiled with little support to pull the living and the dead from the rubble. In neighboring Colombia, when residential towers in Cali collapsed, officials poured in to help.

KABUL – The Taliban marked five years in power on Saturday, seeking to portray their government as in control even as aid and rights groups warned of escalating crises.