A US Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing an Okinawan woman at a hotel in Naha, the prefectural capital.

He has denied the allegations, and the case remains under investigation.

Japan and the United States have begun talks to review rules for troops off base and consider ways to prevent similar incidents.

The discussions will cover the military’s liberty policy, education and joint patrols by US forces and Japanese police.

Federal agents searched the Washington home of Ilhan Omar, a Democratic member of Congress from Minnesota.

The Justice Department said the search was carried out under a court-authorised warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, but did not name Omar or explain the investigation.

News reports linked the search to a fraud inquiry about immigration paperwork filed by Omar’s late father when she was a child; officials have not confirmed that link.

Omar, who came to the United States from Somalia as a child, said the search was an attempt to target political opponents.

Hezbollah will provide financial aid to families with damaged homes in Lebanon after this year's war with Israel.

The group's plan comes after Israeli bombardment and invasion displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

Families must have used the affected property as their main home and must not own a second home.

Eligible families will receive up to $14,000, with different amounts for Beirut and its southern suburbs and for other areas.

UnitedHealth has raised its profit forecast again.

The company’s turnaround efforts are gathering pace, according to the headline.

A profit forecast is an estimate of how much profit a company expects to make.

The headline gives no new forecast figure or details about the changes behind the increase.

Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K at a smart home-focused event on Oct.

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The streaming box looks much like its predecessor, last updated in 2022, but has an A19 chip and Wi-Fi 7 support.

Built-in microphones let users talk to Siri hands-free, without speaking into the remote or a HomePod.

Fabio Calonego, a Brazilian midfielder at Persija Jakarta, is considering Indonesian citizenship and the possibility of playing for Indonesia's national football team.

He says people in Indonesia have suggested he become a citizen, and he feels comfortable living and playing there.

He says he needs four more years in Indonesia's league without playing in another country before he can apply, though he would still need to meet the applicable requirements.

Playing for Indonesia is not his main priority right now, and he says he is taking his career year by year.

Thélyson Orélien denies that AI wrote any sentence of his novel, “C’était ça ou mourir.”

The Canadian-Haitian writer says he used tools for research but wrote the book himself.

He apologized and accepted responsibility for plagiarizing texts by established authors after moving to Canada.

He says he began writing the novel in Quebec in 2017 and finished a first draft in 2019.

Asti’s local health authority launched Communit-Action in September 2025 to support active, healthy ageing.

The project was presented in Vilnius at the third transnational meeting of the European ActAge programme, after an invitation from FinPiemonte.

It was recognised as a European good practice for combining prevention, social participation and local resources.

The project uses a “positive health” approach, treating older people as active members of their communities rather than only as recipients of care.