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(AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)</i:caption><i:title>People Kanye</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/leslie-jordan-versatile-emmy-winning-actor-dies-at-67</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/99/ed/c78db0a63c8d3a82e1b610894f1cfb58c988/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption/><i:title>Obit Leslie Jordan</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/tokyo-film-event-shines-light-on-rainforest-conservation</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/saga-of-last-us-slave-ship-finds-life-in-%27descendant%27-doc</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/40/ab/ebd487ecc5d385cdebb072c5696ba8925483/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>This image released by Netflix shows Emmett Lewis in a scene from the documentary "Descendant." (Netflix via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Film Review - Descendant</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/review-twyla-tharp-returns-with-exhilarating-%27upper-room%27</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/82/80/c0644f4bd30d0a7a66b5287f01e3a3eaee43/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption/><i:title>Dance Review Twyla Tharp</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/netflix-adds-disclaimer-to-%27the-crown%27-after-anger-over-story-lines</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f7/0c/9c9f51b80e9e09aecff194b6efcbdd5eaa92/f70c9c9f51b80e9e09aecff194b6efcbdd5eaa92.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>'The Crown' has been massively popular but attracted criticism for blurring the line between fact and fiction</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/%27momentous%27-asian-americans-laud-anna-may-wong%27s-us-quarter</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c4/53/f216dc7da963dcaafcd3c17ee232dcdedd14/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Chinese American actor Anna May Wong, whose first film appearance was in 1922 was "Chinese Parrot," appears on Jan. 22, 1946. More than 60 years after her death, Wong will be the first Asian American to grace U.S. currency. The U.S. Mint announced it will begin shipping quarters with her likeness later this month. (AP Photo/Carl Nesensohn, File)</i:caption><i:title>Anna May Wong-Coin</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/review-carly-rae-jepsen%E2%80%99s-latest-album-is-pop-perfection</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/9e/c3/8467276d3bdc4f148b3e96f6ef87ecb19ed8/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>This cover image released by Interscope Records shows “The Loneliest Time” by Carly Rae Jepsen. (Interscope Records via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Music Review - Carly Rae Jepsen</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/taylor-swift%27s-10th-album-%27midnights%27-crashes-spotify</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/1f/2f/bf1fc3690e94cf863ca748a50a4147546fe6/1f2fbf1fc3690e94cf863ca748a50a4147546fe6.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, pictured in August 2022, has released her latest album 'Midnights'</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/batman-screening-scrapped-by-hong-kong-censors</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/94/2f/c90b904da794d692f0f0e94fcf8783741822/942fc90b904da794d692f0f0e94fcf8783741822.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>In Hong Kong, "The Dark Knight" was the highest-grossing film of 2008</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/joni-mitchell-heading-back-onstage-after-newport-surprise</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/22/0d/b43b4579c7c85765898b9208603b551a8f9c/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Joni Mitchell arrives at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards on April 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. The 78-year-old music legend will perform on June 10 at the Gorge Amphitheatre, a venue in Washington state. 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Spacey testified that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to bed when he was 14. 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The members of K-pop band BTS will serve their mandatory military duties under South Korean law, their management company said Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, effectively ending a debate on exempting them because of their artistic accomplishments. 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The rapper formerly known as Kanye West is offering to buy right-wing friendly social network Parler after being booted off of Twitter and Instagram. 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Parton laughs at the idea that she is some sort of secret philanthropist. “I don’t do it for attention,” she told The Associated Press in an interview, shortly before she received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at Gotham Hall in New York City Thursday night.   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Japan</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/politics/g7-finance-leaders-pledge-to-intensify-climate-efforts-despite-war-challenges1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-13</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-says-will-decide-steps-on-sakhalin-1-in-consultation-with-partners</loc><lastmod>2022-10-12</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/1a/e4/fc57ff40b20a3c98158e78a5a248d063f8a4/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura</i:caption><i:title>Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura arrives at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's official residence in Tokyo</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japanese-pm-kishida-to-visit-australia-in-late-october</loc><lastmod>2022-10-11</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/35/ef/20a5651824d135db956b0516847eeb99a187/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, August 10, 2022. 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The prices of new and used vehicles in the United States have begun inching down from their eye-watering record highs as more vehicles have become gradually available at dealerships. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, FILE)</i:caption><i:title>Auto Prices</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/explainer-what%27s-up-with-the-bank-of-japan%27s-unique-track</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/52/5e/0bb3c15d23d1b88e08766322d712341aa373/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda</i:caption><i:title>Japan Explainer Bank of Japan</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/hitachi-eyes-expanding-n.-america-train-business-with-new-u.s.-plant</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/force-firms-to-reveal-their-impact-on-nature-major-businesses</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/b1/0c/ad74fec65d7a7de9b516d796092046a9a6ca/b10cad74fec65d7a7de9b516d796092046a9a6ca.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>330 major firms want measures to force businesses destroying the natural world</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/would-be-crypto-investors-in-singapore-could-face-risk-tests</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/62/0c/afc6589e4850374e8abbe50520119dd36bfc/620cafc6589e4850374e8abbe50520119dd36bfc.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>The Monetary Authority of Singapore's proposals aim to protect cryptocurrency traders from losing large sums of cash</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/japan%27s-fair-trade-watchdog-launches-probe-into-1-yen-smartphones</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/greening-global-economy-brings-dependence-on-critical-minerals</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e2/ae/d1a5ecfb1b98dbc6cb3d298191dd68503d82/e2aed1a5ecfb1b98dbc6cb3d298191dd68503d82.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Global demand for these critical metals may quadruple by 2040</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/natural-gas-exporters-market-to-be-tight-until-2025</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c4/ac/3aa62cfefa0696241100ed2965a5ea800d4e/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - This Jan. 31, 2019 file photo, shows an oil platform in the Leviathan natural gas field, in the Mediterranean Sea off the Israeli coast.  The leader of the coalition of gas-exporting countries says that the group expects demand for the fuel to far outstrip demand until 2025 amid a global energy crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine. The secretary general of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum said, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, at group’s meeting in Cairo that although investment was increasing in natural gas production the countries he didn’t expect to have new sources of supply online for another three years.  (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool via AP, File)</i:caption><i:title>Egypt-Natural Gas</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/coke-raises-sales-outlook-after-higher-prices-boost-q3-sales</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/17/ac/3cab469aea9dc3ebb67d8d5054af51f01778/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Bottles of Coca-Cola are displayed at a grocery store in Uniontown, Pa., on Sunday, April 24, 2022. Coca-Cola earnings are reported on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)</i:caption><i:title>Earns Coca-Cola</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/nissan-should-remedy-unequal-renault-alliance-ex-ceo-saikawa-says</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/china%27s-economic-growth-accelerates-but-weak-amid-shutdowns</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7a/1f/6994a956fc617abb0198760890af0d35f904/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen at the end of the Chinese Communist Party's 20th Party Congress on a giant screen a commercial district of Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on Sunday.</i:caption><i:title>China Economy</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/healthcare-tech-giant-philips-scraps-4-000-staff-worldwide</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/update1-yen-falls-back-to-148-zone-vs.-dollar-despite-apparent-intervention</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/95/a6/3c5608a3981be70123f89439844601ef016f/AP22297121181336.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A man walks by monitors showing the Japanese yen's exchange rate against the U.S. dollar, left, and Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo on Monday.</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/focus-yen-inflation-at-levels-unseen-in-decades-not-likely-to-sway-boj</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/one-of-japan%E2%80%99s-biggest-convenience-store-chains-testing-walk-through-cashless-payment-system</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/29/0c/674de5b6944a1b6a7757e3d9dbcdb6ba7336/Screen-Shot-2022-10-21-at-7.35.24.png</i:loc><i:caption/><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/japan%27s-wine-tipplers-see-glass-half-empty-as-weak-yen-pushes-prices-higher</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3f/8a/3ccd6ae314ffb89d4d755523392b3f87858a/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Imported wines from different countries are displayed at the wine shop Wine and Weekend in Tokyo on Friday.</i:caption><i:title>Imported wines from different countries, including the U.S., are displayed at the wine shop 'Wine and Weekend' in Tokyo</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/focus-analysts-see-more-room-for-yen%27s-fall-as-boj-stands-pat-on-policy</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/australia-flags-new-corporate-penalties-for-privacy-breaches</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e8/30/cebcc2e1d72d79441b081a74e7f3ad56e2f2/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - People walk past a Medibank branch in Sydney on Oct. 20, 2022. Australia on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022 proposed tougher penalties for companies that fail to protect customers’ personal data after two major cybersecurity breaches left millions vulnerable to criminals. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)</i:caption><i:title>Australia Cybersecurity</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/update3-yen-briefly-surges-to-146-vs.-dollar-amid-speculation-of-intervention</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/german-tapped-to-lead-japan%27s-medical-company-olympus-as-ceo</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d0/32/7355b5b9736ca60b344d0c31b5c75a2ce6cb/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Stefan Kaufmann</i:caption><i:title>Japan Olympus</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/amazon-will-use-hawaiian-airlines-to-operate-cargo-planes</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3b/12/3df4989dbd63c83aecd0af3d886d326a8aa1/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - An Hawaiian Airlines plane taxis for position at Kahalui, Hawaii on the island of Maui on March 24, 2005. Hawaiian Airlines will operate 10 cargo planes for Amazon.com starting next fall under a deal that could eventually involve more planes and give Amazon a 15% stake in the airline, the airline’s parent company, Hawaiian Holdings Inc., said Friday, Oct. 21, 2022.  (AP Photo/Lucy Pemoni, FIle)</i:caption><i:title>Amazon Hawaiian Airlines</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/japan-set-to-ease-planned-electricity-bill-hike-for-households</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/asian-shares-mostly-fall-as-investors-watch-for-inflation</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/4f/1f/5c2b777e44dd07a6dba394c42f1906078686/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - American flags fly outside the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in New York.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)</i:caption><i:title>Financial Markets Wall Street</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/first-ever-licencing-deal-struck-for-cancer-drug</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/61/a5/2b326135e17bf35b33c34072b7449bf3b6fc/61a52b326135e17bf35b33c34072b7449bf3b6fc.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Novartis makes nilotinib, a drug used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/fewer-americans-apply-for-jobless-benefits-last-week1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/japan%27s-imports-exports-balloon-on-energy-costs-cheap-yen</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3c/a8/c5098b2c5ca9e223625a6f07a0b1a2163f94/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Cars wait to be exported at Yokohama port.</i:caption><i:title>Japan Trade</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/Yen-falls-to-150-level-against-U.S.-dollar</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/asian-shares-fall-after-weak-earnings-pull-wall-st-lower</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f7/8b/5480771bd613c2a72db7a7e4ab925ed84a4e/AP22293148545223.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A man walks past an electronic stock board showing the yen/dollar exchange rate at a securities firm in Tokyo on Thursday.</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/%E2%80%98bad-situation%E2%80%99-soaring-u.s.-dollar-spreads-pain-worldwide</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/73/df/ec7dbe61c6c37e75d0af896d0da08628aea0/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A woman walks by a money exchange shop decorated with different countries currency banknotes in Hong Kong.</i:caption><i:title>Strong Dollar Global Impact</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/starbucks-selling-seattle%27s-best-coffee-brand-to-nestle</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/78/45/093844cc341063b81a92f32bea9aa3498a23/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - In this April 7, 2016, file photo Nestle's directors speak in front of the Nestle's logo during the general meeting of Nestle Group, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Starbucks is selling its Seattle’s Best Coffee brand to Nestle for an undisclosed amount. Switzerland-based Nestle has been in a partnership with Seattle-based Starbucks since 2018 and already distributes Starbucks-branded coffee in more than 80 markets worldwide.  (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)</i:caption><i:title>Nestle Starbucks</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/some-risks-too-big-insurers-withdraw-from-fossil-projects</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/nintendo-takes-steps-to-protect-staff-from-growing-problem-of-customer-harassment</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f0/a5/aece772d5552a3f5b344703fe045894429d1/Screen-Shot-2022-10-18-at-8.37.43.png</i:loc><i:caption/><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/taiwan%27s-foxconn-unveils-more-electric-vehicle-prototypes</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/63/f4/445adfe3afb46856870e93def2767f56f823/63f4445adfe3afb46856870e93def2767f56f823.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Foxconn founder Terry Gou introduces the Model B electric vehicle at a Tuesday media date in Taipei</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/united-airlines-reaps-942-million-profit-on-strong-summer</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/45/fb/90d8500d0e150c1b231b0812e392caac4e1a/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - A United Airlines jetliner takes off from a runway at Denver International Airport Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, in Denver. Airlines say travelers are still booking trips despite uncertainty over inflation and the economy. That’s boosting the bottom line at United Airlines, which looks for a big summer of international travel next year. The company's third-quarter earnings are reported today. 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Asian shares were mostly lower Monday as investors kept their eyes on the weeklong Communist Party congress in China. 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REUTERS/Lisa Leutner</i:caption><i:title>OPEC+ holds a meeting in Vienna</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/business/wto-warns-%27darkened%27-trade-outlook-could-deteriorate-further</loc><lastmod>2022-10-06</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a1/5b/1150ee31a114a6afa73b86a58eeee7e26920/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Containers are shown staked-up at the Port of Long Beach as supply chain problem continue from Long Beach, California, U.S. November 22, 2021. 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Musk posted video Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, showing him strolling into Twitter headquarters ahead of a Friday, Oct. 28, deadline to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)</i:caption><i:title>Musk Twitter</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/tech/china-covid-curbs-disrupt-production-at-world%27s-biggest-iphone-factory</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/1a/60/bff16dc4e175960fb9e7668cfceee6a9b4b9/1a60bff16dc4e175960fb9e7668cfceee6a9b4b9.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>More than 200 million people in China are under some form of enhanced Covid restrictions this week, Japanese investment bank Nomura estimates</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/tech/facebook-parent-meta%27s-revenue-profit-decline-amid-ad-slump</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3e/47/4c7820ff7741889cf53ae6fd0aa3d08255a4/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - A car passes Facebook's new Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, reported that its revenue declined for a second consecutive quarter, hurt by falling advertising revenue amid competition from the wildly popular video app TikTok. 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For months, the Elon Musk has expressed interest in creating his own version of China’s WeChat — a “super app” that does video chats, messaging, streaming and payments — for the rest of the world.. At least, that is, once he's done buying Twitter after months of legal infighting over the $44 billion purchase agreement he signed in April 2022. 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(AP Photo/Jon Super)</i:caption><i:title>Britain Soccer Premier League</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/astros-seek-untainted-world-series-title-against-phillies</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ed/dd/74a7e0fc5a6e141c3c76fcd8a23bc039ca4c/eddd74a7e0fc5a6e141c3c76fcd8a23bc039ca4c.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker celebrates after his club clinched a trip to the World Series</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/rugby-over-65-000-tickets-sold-for-all-blacks-match-vs.-japan</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/liverpool-inter-ease-into-last-16-as-barcelona-exit-with-whimper</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/95/53/b932b7cddb2264bfcb7cd302f5526a44c4a2/9553b932b7cddb2264bfcb7cd302f5526a44c4a2.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Liverpool eased into the Champions League last 16</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/english-fa-takes-no-action-after-gabriel-henderson-clash</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/85/99/cf413d8409283ddb82c3597a93c7412e06a9/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Liverpool's Jordan Henderson, left, reacts with his teammates Mohamed Salah, center and Trent Alexander-Arnold after Arsenal's Bukayo Saka scored during the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Liverpool at Emirates Stadium in London, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)</i:caption><i:title>Britain Soccer Premier League</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/delayed-whitelock-joins-all-blacks-tour-after-trampoline-trouble</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/56/00/50b251bb78afba1698976b9083b4cf18fc14/560050b251bb78afba1698976b9083b4cf18fc14.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>New Zealand lock Sam Whitelock joined the All Blacks in Tokyo on Wednesday after recovering from an ear problem caused by trampolining with his children</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/baseball-yamada-blast-sparks-swallows-to-one-sided-game-3-win</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/juventus-crash-out-of-champions-league-but-chelsea-psg-through-to-last-16</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/58/c2/4442dc29eb41004507f4d2829e7e56f83e82/58c24442dc29eb41004507f4d2829e7e56f83e82.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A 4-3 defeat to Benfica means Juventus will not be in the Champions League knockout stage for the first time since 2013/14</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/all-blacks-must-be-%27switched-on%27-for-japan-threat-lienert-brown</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/43/37/b04f61ac87223ce3a45a4a101099a053f840/4337b04f61ac87223ce3a45a4a101099a053f840.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Back for New Zealand: Anton Lienert-Brown</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/wawrinka-beats-ruud-murray-also-advances-at-swiss-indoors</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/28/fb/e07087a5f2f8a401caec71771a7f94023734/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Great Britain's Andy Murray wipes his face during their first round match with Russia's Roman Safiullin at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. (Georgios Kefalas/Keystone via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Switzerland Tennis Indoor</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/italian-rugby-player-who-bit-rival-is-banned-for-12-games</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/depleted-all-blacks-lose-seventh-player-before-japan-test</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/33/28/5f62852aeb933ef37d676d32d69e395a1336/33285f62852aeb933ef37d676d32d69e395a1336.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Leicester Fainga'anuku is the seventh player to leave the All Blacks' tour squad</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/west-ham-beat-bournemouth-with-more-var-controversy</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/b3/b1/87887a200484c22240250be5960163e766e6/b3b187887a200484c22240250be5960163e766e6.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Said Benrahma scored from the penalty spot to give West Ham a 2-0 win against Bournemouth at the London Stadium</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/%27no-chance%27-halep-purposely-took-drugs-says-former-coach-cahill</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e7/ad/e5de91442fc5d36699dc58f30f9af96a9fea/e7ade5de91442fc5d36699dc58f30f9af96a9fea.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Simona Halep (right) was coached by Darren Cahill (left) for six years</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/astros-sweep-yankees-in-alcs-advance-to-world-series-again</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d0/61/9bfc4fa9bdfe58d5a98cad6cb06c4ff41a92/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>The Houston Astros celebrate after defeating the New York Yankees 6-5 to win Game 4 and the American League Championship baseball series, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)</i:caption><i:title>ALCS Astros Yankees Baseball</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/harper%27s-hr-powers-phillies-past-padres-into-world-series</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e3/15/c08c3ac98bbea30777441912764dfb7fbc8d/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper rounds the bases after a two-run home run during the eighth inning in Game 5 of the baseball NL Championship Series between the San Diego Padres and the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)</i:caption><i:title>NLCS Padres Phillies Baseball</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/reigning-world-champion-sakamoto-wins-skate-america-title</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7c/0e/4b656ad95f0e5b6de655633f9fbe967ed606/7c0e4b656ad95f0e5b6de655633f9fbe967ed606.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Reigning world champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan won the Skate America women's title</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/arsenal-stumble-at-southampton-villa-soar-after-gerrard-sacking</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/97/27/0aa524c32166d7019ccf841e661d97913abd/97270aa524c32166d7019ccf841e661d97913abd.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Granit Xhaka put Arsenal in front at Southampton</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/verstappen-gets-record-tying-13th-win-at-us-grand-prix</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/4f/e2/297fea0814e2c69e88dfea074a8355b459a9/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, of the Netherlands, competes during the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at the Circuit of the Americas, in Austin, Texas, on Sunday.</i:caption><i:title>F1 US Grand Prix Auto Racing</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/baseball-uchiyama-homer-salvages-game-2-tie-for-swallows</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/american-skaters-blast-rusada-secrecy-in-valieva-doping-case</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a6/74/53ba39abcf998954d9eb3fdc4745575de339/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Russian Kamila Valieva, foreground, prepares to compete in the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Grand Prix, the Golden Skate of Moscow, as her coach Eteri Tutberidze, right, looks at her at Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. With its teams suspended from international competitions such as the Grand Prix series, Russia is holding its own series of figure skating events in various cities, also under the Grand Prix name. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)</i:caption><i:title>Russia Grand Prix Figure Skating Valieva</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/rory-mcilroy-regains-world-no.-1-ranking-with-cj-cup-win</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ed/31/ca00b4f106a4db06dbe03bb111c5a5fb157b/ed31ca00b4f106a4db06dbe03bb111c5a5fb157b.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy acknowledges fans after winning the U.S. PGA Tour CJ Cup to return to the top of the world rankings</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/astros-blank-yankees-to-reach-brink-of-world-series</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/b8/63/b7ef9474d987f3437001b1b4d5d21c6ec054/b863b7ef9474d987f3437001b1b4d5d21c6ec054.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Rhys Hoskins of the Philadelphia Phillies hit two two-run homers in his squad's 10-6 Major League Baseball playoff victory over San Diego</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/italy-beats-japan-to-reach-maiden-world-cup-quarterfinal</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/update1-baseball-osuna-leads-as-swallows-bomb-orix-in-japan-series-game-1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/forest-upsets-liverpool-as-haaland-fires-city-back-on-track</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a1/c5/120721ea7edceeaba89682adea0a322c130e/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp gestures on the touchline during the English Premier League soccer match between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, at the City Ground, in Nottingham, England, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Britain Soccer Premier League</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/all-blacks-deal-with-injuries-absences-for-european-tour</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7d/7c/d385fc12dcebdc34a56305e109fe3ed0218b/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Blood drips the face of New Zealand's Jordie Barrett following the Bledisloe Cup rugby test match between the All Blacks and the Wallabies at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP)</i:caption><i:title>New Zealand Australia Rugby</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/sainz-on-pole-for-us-grand-prix-after-verstappen-falters</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/da/26/7814e036fb6dbd172509877038b58485852e/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz, of Spain, drives during qualifications for the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at Circuit of the Americas, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, in Austin, Texas. 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Eight months after finishing behind the Russians at the Winter Games, the U.S. team has yet to receive its medals, or even know whether they will be silver or gold. That’s because only recently did the Russian Anti-Doping Agency complete its painfully slow investigation into Kamila Valieva, the now-16-year-old whose positive doping test that surfaced during the opening week of the Olympics led to its biggest scandal in years. 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(Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Women's Rugby World Cup England Fiji</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/sports/dikembe-mutombo-undergoing-treatment-for-brain-tumor</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c5/44/c498216330b9d4f5af1fd5b063bcfd991808/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Former NBA basketball player Dikembe Mutombo laughs during a news conference announcing him as one of the 12 finalists of this year's hall of fame class during an event ahead of the NBA All Star basketball game, on Feb. 14, 2015, in New York. 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The book is an object of obsessive anticipation worldwide since first announced last year, is coming out Jan. 10. (Random House Group via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Books Prince Harry</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/eu-to-tighten-gun-trade-laws-as-ukraine-war-fuels-arms-fears</loc><lastmod>2022-10-28</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/5-stabbed-in-supermarket-attack-in-italy-one-killed</loc><lastmod>2022-10-28</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e2/e5/98d0f01ac22218629438fa32a7f18788b5a5/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Medics wheel an injured person into an ambulance at the scene of an attack in Milan, Italy, Thursday Oct. 27, 2022. A man armed with a knife stabbed five people inside a shopping center south of Milan on Thursday. (LaPresse via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Italy Stabbing</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/brexit-crisis-pushes-n-ireland-to-brink-of-new-election</loc><lastmod>2022-10-28</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/12/e3/fe1ee41183c25b829a080baf82a0acfda0e7/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Chris Heaton-Harris, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland arrives for a Cabinet meeting, the first held by the new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in London, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Sunak was elected by the ruling Conservative party to replace Liz Truss who resigned. 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REUTERS/Washington Alves/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Former Brazil's President and current presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a march in Belo Horizonte</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/greek-pm-says-ready-to-extend-hand-of-friendship-to-turkey</loc><lastmod>2022-10-28</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/58/da/021569341dddd7936940b690e738a5cd216e/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Scholz is in Athens on a two-day official visit. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)</i:caption><i:title>Greece Germany</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/dog-caught-running-off-with-human-head-in-mexico</loc><lastmod>2022-10-28</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/chinese-cities-tighten-curbs-against-widening-covid-outbreaks</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/38/f0/56182d4e9beea8fe64f46d4fe1892c5b17f2/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Security personnel in protective suits stand at the gate of a residential compound that is under lockdown as outbreaks of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continue in Beijing, October 22, 2022. 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(AP Photo)</i:caption><i:title>Iran Protest</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/judge-orders-meadows-to-testify-in-georgia-election-probe</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7f/23/0b67d0bb48b4347b1f2af322acd1c62cd732/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington.  A judge has ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to travel to Atlanta to testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the state’s 2020 election.  (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)</i:caption><i:title>Georgia Election Investigation</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/italy%27s-meloni-pledges-arms-for-ukraine-berlusconi-toes-line</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/58/66/60103021023365b9481f9b3050d5388fa97e/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks during a session of the upper house of parliament ahead of a confidence vote for the new government, in Rome, Italy, October 26, 2022. 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(AP Photo/Franka Bruns, File)</i:caption><i:title>Germany Cannabis</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/n.ireland-set-for-fresh-elections-over-post-brexit-impasse</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/2e/9b/224c91df57353171544ffd0e8bce211888b0/2e9b224c91df57353171544ffd0e8bce211888b0.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Northern Ireland has been without a functioning government since February</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/eu-expanding-border-guard-presence-along-busy-balkan-route</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/former-us-pilot-who-worked-in-china-arrested-in-australia</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/canada-police-arrest-syria-returnee-on-terrorism-related-charges</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/man-convicted-of-killing-6-with-suv-in-christmas-parade</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/cb/4b/5973e90a1fe8f25c364fd33cc704c3a5df93/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Darrell Brooks reacts as the guilty verdict is read during his trial in a Waukesha County Circuit Court in Waukesha, Wis., on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Brooks, who is represented himself during the trial, was charged with driving into a Waukesha Christmas Parade last year, killing six people and injuring dozens more. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool)</i:caption><i:title>APTOPIX Christmas Parade SUV</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/australian-health-insurer-says-data-of-all-customers-hacked</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/9a/7e/be2cca7c58d58b2064f1e3abdd7d330563c8/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>People walk past a Medibank branch in Sydney on Wednesday.</i:caption><i:title>Australia Cybersecurity</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/new-zealand-women-lawmakers-outnumber-men-for-first-time</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/72/e9/4e2427b00f7de5bcafe4e1cc92494f716730/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>New Labour MP Soraya Peke-Mason smiles during her maiden speech at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. For the first time in New Zealand's history, a majority of lawmakers are women. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)</i:caption><i:title>New Zealand Women Lawmakers</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-tells-u.n.-ukraine-plans-%27dirty-bomb-%27-west-dismisses-allegation</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/dc/28/2239f859a1615b8394f7b03e468cc22ed94c/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Victor walks across the forecourt of his garage which was completely destroyed during Russian strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Balakliia, Ukraine, October 22, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne    </i:caption><i:title>A garage is destroyed, in Balakliia</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/new-pm-rishi-sunak-pledges-to-lead-britain-out-of-economic-crisis1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/23/f5/d5a19e041138d9e61209a8325d8f38534633/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Britain's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech outside Number 10 Downing Street, in London, on Tuesday.</i:caption><i:title>Britain gets new Prime Minister</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/climate-summit-host-egypt-renews-invite-to-king-charles</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/35/ec/1b5344e12b1f188e9b5222709817b6754811/35ec1b5344e12b1f188e9b5222709817b6754811.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>King Charles III 'has been a very strong advocate for climate action and a role model'</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/liberal-u.s.-lawmakers-withdraw-ukraine-letter-after-blowback2</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/canadian-tribunal-seeks-revamp-of-c-20-billion-deal-for-first-nations-children</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a1/4e/79daa527588aa59136aa5b7e4159d8526f00/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Eunice Delorme, a mother to five, grandmother to eight and great-grandmother to five, who also helped raise 17 foster children, a professional Kokum, or grandmother, that works with families at Scared Wolf Lodge poses on Cowessess First Nation near Grayson, Saskatchewan, Canada October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon VanRaes/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Cowessess First Nation and Child Welfare</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/meloni-on-critics-italians-don%27t-need-lessons-from-abroad</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/67/fc/b3d7b8954d3b7d7f048afba033aef05438d3/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, left, flanked by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, addresses the lower Chamber ahead of a confidence vote for her Cabinet, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. Giorgia Meloni, whose party with neo-fascist roots finished first in recent elections, is Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to serve as Italian premier. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)</i:caption><i:title>APTOPIX Italy Politics</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/brazilian-voters-attacked-by-misinformation-days-before-vote</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/65/e2/47a7165e9af1f7b5649563bf94cde2b86428/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Women listen on a mobile phone to an interview of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running again for president, with Jornal Nacional on TV Globo, outside a bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, August 25, 2022. The Superior Electoral Court, the country's top electoral authority, announced Thursday, Oct, 20, that it would be banning "false or seriously decontextualized" content that “affects the integrity of the electoral process.” No request from a prosecutor or complainant is necessary for the court to take action. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)</i:caption><i:title>Brazil Elections Misinformation</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/norway-police-arrest-suspected-russian-spy-says-he-was-%27illegal-agent%271</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e9/61/46c0e8b8df27256c93f88a91617b19f0fa1b/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A helicopter patrols off Tromsoe, Norway, June 2, 2012. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: A helicopter patrols off Tromsoe</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/south-africa-says-ethiopia-peace-talks-have-begun-on-tigray</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/9a/e1/e463025b74cb0eba9de4d1687769beb1e411/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Ethiopians protest against what they say is interference by outsiders in the country's internal affairs and against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the party of Tigray's fugitive leaders, at a rally organized by the city administration in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. A South Africa government spokesman says African Union-led peace talks to end Ethiopia's Tigray conflict have begun in South Africa on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. (AP Photo, File)</i:caption><i:title>Ethiopia Tigray Crisis</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/u.s.-basketball-star-griner%27s-9-year-drug-sentence-upheld-in-russia</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/6a/a7/6b39c0ea791642e03263f601d87f75884633/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner appears on a screen via video link from the detention centre during a court hearing to consider an appeal against her prison sentence, in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, Russia October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina</i:caption><i:title>U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner appears in court via video link in Krasnogorsk</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/turkey-detains-11-journalists-working-for-pro-kurdish-media</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/southeast-australia-braces-for-more-rain-residents-told-to-evacuate</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3a/74/c823681d96528c96de813337491b02d79b40/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A pedestrian stands on the corner of a flooded street in Sydney.</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Sydney set to smash rainfall records as Australia braces for more floods</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/rishi-sunak-to-become-britain%27s-next-pm-after-months-of-turmoil3</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c4/b7/7562badba0c91fea2e9c21fe382ca8a615d3/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Rishi Sunak, the new leader of Britain's Conservative Party, walks outside the Conservative campaign headquarters, in London on Monday.</i:caption><i:title>Rishi Sunak in London</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/after-struggle-ukraine-claims-success-in-downing-drones</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/59/1e/4afbd39d983fe966557bc845696b49498003/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>People hold plastic bottles to refill drinking water from a tank in the center of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on Monday.</i:caption><i:title>APTOPIX Russia Ukraine War</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/test-scores-show-historic-covid-setbacks-for-kids-across-us</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/b1/53/075ee9c9645ca71b1fd187f8d15a31f29841/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Peggy Carr, Commissioner of the National Center for Education, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press about the National Assessment of Education Process, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)</i:caption><i:title>Virus Outbreak Test Scores</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/ethnic-group-says-myanmar-air-attack-kills-60-at-celebration</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/un-suspends-australia-anti-torture-mission-after-inspectors-barred</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/06/fc/e853dc3e855f3c481ede470424acef9f1c21/06fce853dc3e855f3c481ede470424acef9f1c21.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Australia's prisons, youth detention centres and immigration compounds have been plagued by persistent allegations of human rights abuses, particularly against Aboriginal communities</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/macron%27s-centrist-french-govt-survives-no-confidence-votes</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/17/11/57b4cd654d2aa77735a8e8eb4d40eec900e2/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE- French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne arrives to deliver a speech at the National Assembly, in Paris, France, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. The French government survived Monday two no-confidence votes prompted by opposition lawmakers to protest against the use of a special constitutional power to force the budget bill through the National Assembly without a vote. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)</i:caption><i:title>France No Confidence Vote</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/analysis-police-showdown-with-bolsonaro-ally-amplifies-brazil-election-violence-fears</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/13/49/7c1a7928cb5ee607c270f8c814b997fe419e/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Supporters of Brazilian politician Roberto Jefferson, who fired at police while resisting arrest ordered by the country's Supreme Court, demonstrate close to his house as he is transported on a vehicle, in Comendador Levy Gasparian, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, October 23, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Supporters of Brazilian politician Roberto Jefferson demonstrate close to his house in Comendador Levy Gasparian</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/male-or-female-title-italy%27s-new-pm-meloni-stirs-gender-debate</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c0/7b/38e47cfabfe10dd2d3ed4129d2c04a743516/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni rings the bell to signify the start of her first cabinet meeting, at Chigi Palace, in Rome, Italy, October 23, 2022. REUTERS/Yara Nardi</i:caption><i:title>First new cabinet meeting at Chigi Palace, in Rome</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/2-chinese-officers-charged-in-plot-to-obstruct-huawei-probe</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/60/aa/598fd43241324bc9630d89671320468afd59/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Attorney General Merrick Garland, center, flanked by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, left, and FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaks to reporters as they announce charges against two men suspected of being Chinese intelligence officers for attempting to obstruct a U.S. criminal investigation and prosecution of Chinese tech giant Huawei, at the Department of Justice in Washington, Monday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)</i:caption><i:title>Justice Department Huawei</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/2-students-injured-in-shooting-at-st.-louis-high-school</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d8/fc/b25eb93134681310f940e70416007f156e2d/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption/><i:title>School Shooting St Louis</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/world-faces-tension-with-china-under-xi-jinping%27s-third-term</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ff/ce/175f1df175eb8288aa4fe56433c628498fd5/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>New members of the Politburo Standing Committee, front to back, President Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi arrive at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday.</i:caption><i:title>China Party Congress What Next</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/korean-air-plane-overshoots-runway-in-philippines</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/13/1a/118adff4ae9a0c14ee27c2a59ea6cccdeb60/131a118adff4ae9a0c14ee27c2a59ea6cccdeb60.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>All passengers and crew were evacuated safely after the plane overshot the runway at the Cebu airport</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/australia-flood-crisis-enters-3rd-week-as-heavy-rains-lash-east</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/Boris-Johnson-out-of-race-to-be-next-UK-prime-minister</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ad/85/31d5280beb4820846be4c777af83e73f8055/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Conservative Party leadership candidate Rishi Sunak leaves his campaign office in London on Sunday,.</i:caption><i:title>Britain Politics</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-hits-ukraine-homes-evacuates-kherson-warns-of-escalation1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ee/f4/d2ab42b3d9f840aac825325c2ddb611f807a/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A view shows a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile attack in Mykolaiv, Ukraine October 23, 2022.  REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko</i:caption><i:title>Aftermath of a Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/koreas-exchange-warning-shots-along-sea-border-amid-tensions</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/biden-%27legitimate%27-for-voters-to-weigh-age-as-he-nears-80</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/16/54/92a393286da20dfe56809bd1551bf864a440/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>President Joe Biden walks from Marine One upon arrival at the Gordons Pond in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)</i:caption><i:title>Biden</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/climate-protesters-throw-mashed-potatoes-at-monet-painting</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/france%27s-macron-and-italy%27s-new-pm-meloni-held-talks-on-sunday</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7a/74/d849aa5eee2f8f3d67fb43c4d6344b4ebb82/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends the first new cabinet meeting, at Chigi Palace, in Rome, Italy, October 23, 2022. REUTERS/Yara Nardi</i:caption><i:title>First new cabinet meeting at Chigi Palace, in Rome</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/at-least-four-dead-in-attack-on-south-somalia-hotel</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/55/dc/8e8b24a9d4b65f9db7db39b750219bf7859d/55dc8e8b24a9d4b65f9db7db39b750219bf7859d.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for a similar style attack on Kismayo's Medina hotel in 2019</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/hungary-pm-in-new-anti-eu-tirade-amid-protests-by-teachers</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/22/8d/10550fe71417b5e1290d1fdfa8f597ce1196/228d10550fe71417b5e1290d1fdfa8f597ce1196.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Orban compared the EU to the now-defunct Soviet bloc</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/salman-rushdie-lost-sight-in-one-eye-following-attack-agent-says</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/76/6e/a274523ddfc1c18e0009f85c310325f4e4df/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: The writer Salman Rushdie interviewed during Heartland Festival in Kvaerndrup, Denmark  June 2, 2018. Carsten Bundgaard/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: The writer Salman Rushdie interviewed during Heartland Festival in Kvaerndrup</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/china%27s-xi-expands-powers-promotes-allies</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/02/cb/9379344d4a25aae3856c1de1fccc4f921142/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on Sunday.</i:caption><i:title>China Party Congress</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/more-severe-weather-forecast-for-australia%27s-southeast-amid-flood-crisis</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/boris-johnson-returns-to-uk-in-bid-for-rapid-political-comeback2</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/88/2b/15a96cff2e32b3d0dcb34be029184e750c7d/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures after arriving at Gatwick Airport near London on Saturday.</i:caption><i:title>Former British PM Johnson at Gatwick Airport near London</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/Russian-authorities-advise-civilians-to-leave-Kherson</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/90/1e/70e8b8c65617649f8b836ac3c71ea4c89ab6/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Evacuees from Kherson gather upon their arrival at the railway station in Dzhankoi, Crimea, on Friday</i:caption><i:title>Russia Ukraine</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/inflation-protests-across-europe-threaten-political-turmoil</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d8/c2/3b821df71e0764c187c659e5a280a6755802/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - People holds banners and placards as they attend a RMT (The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers) union train strike rally outside King's Cross railway station, in London, June 25, 2022. Across Europe, soaring inflation is behind a wave of protests and strikes that underscores growing discontent with spiralling living costs and threatens to unleash political turmoil. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)</i:caption><i:title>Europe Inflation Unrest</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/protest-against-iranian-regime-draws-thousands-in-berlin</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/81/79/ef1215bb4c23f1e910bc8bbc32cca2237074/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>People hold Iranian flag during a protest against the Iranian regime, in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic republic's notorious "morality police". The 22-year-old died in Iran while in police custody on Sept. 16 after her arrest three days prior for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)</i:caption><i:title>Germany Iran Protest</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/former-chinese-president-hu-removed-from-congress</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/4a/16/51203b00ca746ae7b1ee9fbe5d8a70b3b5cc/4a1651203b00ca746ae7b1ee9fbe5d8a70b3b5cc.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Former president Hu Jintao is reluctantly led out of the 20th Party Congress closing ceremony by stewards</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/alex-jones-seeks-new-trial-after-1b-sandy-hook-verdict</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7a/68/dd015d941fd0bc7e63730da905793e893072/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones takes the witness stand to testify at the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn. Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.  On Friday, Oct. 21, Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families over Jones' lies that the 2012 Newtown school shooting was a hoax.(Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)</i:caption><i:title>Newtown Shooting-Infowars</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/illegal-border-crossings-to-us-from-mexico-hit-annual-high</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/61/a3/fed53365cc9297845413d71982016adf521c/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Venezuelan migrants walk across the Rio Bravo towards the United States border to surrender to the border patrol, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Oct. 13, 2022. A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)</i:caption><i:title>Immigration Border Crossings</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/china%27s-xi-further-cements-power-as-party-congress-closes</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/11/0a/aefb2790aac959de7b3c46738b66835f0357/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Chinese President Xi Jinping votes during the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China October 22, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang</i:caption><i:title>Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/australia%27s-east-braces-for-more-heavy-rain-%27life-threatening%27-floods</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/25/a9/7ad3eb18a9f98e1ddb18a3eca5d9ce63179a/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian stands on the corner of a flooded street as heavy rains affect Sydney, Australia, October 6, 2022.  REUTERS/Loren Elliott</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Sydney set to smash rainfall records as Australia braces for more floods</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/boris-johnson-eyes-comeback-bid-as-uk-tories-pick-new-leader</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/0d/41/3e953ce6439743150e708efde85a4a23526e/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A selection of the front pages of British national newspapers showing the reaction the the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss, at a newsagents in central London on Friday.</i:caption><i:title>Britain Politics</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/jan.-6-panel-issues-subpoena-to-trump-demanding-he-testify</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/6e/5e/738de3042523afa1782632b9d80003b470ec/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Former President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a rally at the Minden Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nevada, on Oct 8.</i:caption><i:title>Trump</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/ukrainian-forces-pile-pressure-on-russian-held-kherson</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/0a/13/3b2b40071fd82682f9778e078c6e06b7a8bd/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Ukrainian soldiers fire the Russian positions with the mortar in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)</i:caption><i:title>Russia Ukraine War</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/protests-rage-in-iran%27s-southeast-amid-crackdown-call1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/56/06/9e2338aa5f66c96e54ad6d1e965f2a03240d/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A newspaper with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by Iranian morality police is seen in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS//File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: A newspaper with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by Iranian morality police, is seen in Tehran</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/eu-leaders-weigh-future-of-china-ties-as-rivalry-mounts</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ca/21/499665d72c09410fe31bec9b3c1b649eafde/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>European Council President Charles Michel, center left, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, center right, walk together prior to a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. European Union leaders are gathered Friday to take stock of their support for Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia is trying to spark a refugee exodus by destroying his war-ravaged country's energy infrastructure. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)</i:caption><i:title>Belgium Russia Ukraine War Europe</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/trump-ally-steve-bannon-faces-sentencing-for-contempt</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/28/bb/adf15514b68cdd3d455faebae2afeffd356e/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Steve Bannon, center, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump and convicted of contempt of Congress,  accompanied by his attorneys David Schoen, left, and Evan Corcoran, right, speaks to the media as he leaves the federal courthouse on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, in Washington. Bannon was sentenced to 4 months behind bars for defying a Jan. 6 committee subpoena. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)</i:caption><i:title>Capitol Riot Bannon</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/don%27t-exploit-her-parents-of-slain-girl-tell-french-politicians</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3b/ae/c96dc22e458a2ec39642ec4cb87ccb60a3c3/3baec96dc22e458a2ec39642ec4cb87ccb60a3c3.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Conservative and far-right parties have used the case to attack President Emmanuel Macron's government over immigration</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/canada-bans-new-handgun-sales-in-latest-gun-control-action</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c4/28/0ee0a9dc55eda1c505ed8afc8051ec80c20a/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a climate change conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a climate change conference in Ottawa</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/pakistan-ex-pm-khan-barred-from-office-sparking-protests1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/58/02/4e51a4951a5088401df3caffdc4bee3d03c2/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in Islamabad, Pakistan June 4, 2021. REUTERS/Saiyna Bashir/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in Islamabad,</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/%27political-fix%27-needed-for-wikileaks%27-assange-lawyer1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/dd/28/9798458c9defffe2f6d825e87e10269a70ac/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange create a human chain outside Houses of Parliament during a protest, in London on Oct 8.</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange create human chain around Westminster in London</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/britain%27s-political-turmoil-shatters-its-pragmatic-image</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7c/58/8b42b82cd3d3528c782d2628f48ec5b5b4db/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Demonstrators protest opposite parliament after Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned in London, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Truss resigned Thursday, bowing to the inevitable after a tumultuous, short-lived term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party that obliterated her authority.(AP Photo/David Cliff)</i:caption><i:title>Britain Politics</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/ukraine-braces-for-more-power-outages-after-russia-bombs-infrastructure</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/05/9b/54ece6e3723697dfa6d55cfc0bf785a6e0b2/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>People shop in a supermarket as Kharkiv suffers an electricity outage in Ukraine, on Thursday.</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: People shop during an electricity outage, in Kharkiv</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/security-forces-kill-at-least-60-as-protests-engulf-chad</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/82/3f/1c94457445706c96a421085ee058111ad3a5/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Chad's Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby, the head of its military government, waves as he is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Nov. 12, 2021. Chadian security forces opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the country's two largest cities Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022 killing at least 60 people, the government spokesman and a morgue official said. Authorities imposed a curfew after the violence, which came amid demonstrations in the central African nation against interim leader Mahamat Idriss Deby's two-year extension of power. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)</i:caption><i:title>Chad Protests</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/liz-truss-quits-after-six-chaotic-weeks-as-uk-prime-minister</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ed/27/78469bcb42b0e05eb9d75a478634c7b03f9e/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>British Prime Minister Liz Truss announces her resignation, outside Number 10 Downing Street, in London on Thursday.</i:caption><i:title>British Prime Minister Liz Truss announces her resignation, outside Number 10 Downing Street, London</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/at-least-150-killed-in-two-days-of-fighting-in-sudan%27s-south</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3e/47/193cfa407ab345d36181a75d51e683f1a075/3e47193cfa407ab345d36181a75d51e683f1a075.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Sudan's Blue Nile state has seen repeated deadly unrest since July: this August 8 photograph shows a home destroyed near Roseires</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/energy-crunch-pits-germany-against-frustrated-eu-leaders-seeking-gas-cap</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/28/3b/726f40f92e308fab012c5847ed369ddfaa1f/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>European Council President Charles Michel attends the European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium, October 20, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman</i:caption><i:title>EU leaders meet in Brussels</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/child-sex-abuse-in-britain-is-epidemic-uk-inquiry-says</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/0a/99/106756f528b2aa2d94a3df7b6efcf040f320/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A Union Jack flag flutters at full mast following the end of the official period of mourning of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, in London, Britain September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson</i:caption><i:title>A Union Jack flag flutters at full mast following the end of the official period of mourning of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, in London</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/u.s.-diplomat%27s-wife-pleads-guilty-over-fatal-uk-car-crash1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/24/44/5ddf1602181cd628021f731cafcd93c183e4/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A banner and a memorial area for British teenager Harry Dunn who died in a road traffic collision is pictured near to the entrance of RAF Croughton, in Croughton, near Brackley, Britain June 11, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Boyers</i:caption><i:title>Banner and a memorial area for Harry Dunn</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/singapore-seeks-to-amend-constitution-to-protect-its-defintion-of-marriage</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/cc/32/08863c869d403dc57737e01cbcf7cc1a88c9/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A view of the Parliament House in Singapore May 24, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Singapore seeks to amend constitution to protect its defintion of marriage</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/new-zealand-farmers-hit-streets-to-protest-cow-burp-tax-plan</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/12/ab/d706f99a98c519d30cf4cd1f6aabfedd4999/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A tractor drives down Queen Street in central Auckland during a protest on climate change proposals to make New Zealand farmers pay for greenhouse gas emissions, on Thursday.</i:caption><i:title>New Zealand Farm Protests</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/britons-skipping-meals-in-cost-of-living-crisis-poll</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/4a/c1/a4e284dad2083b1fc00132ce458d7fc011d6/4ac1a4e284dad2083b1fc00132ce458d7fc011d6.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Consumer group Which? said half of UK households were cutting back on meals due to the cost-of-living crisis</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/Putin-escalates-war-with-martial-law-as-he-faces-threats</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c1/c7/8c5f20060e41335362292452969dc255b69c/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>People sit in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter, on Wednesday.</i:caption><i:title>Russia Ukraine War</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk-leader-liz-truss-faces-test-in-parliament-seeks-lifeline</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/01/a0/7bc08afba4397be982760aba8d28aee12a67/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>In this grab taken from video from the House of Commons, Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday Oct. 19, 2022. (House of Commons/PA via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Britain Politics</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/u.s.-mulls-joint-weapons-production-with-taiwan1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3c/e2/c9f392608a38d45c8e49eb28f05d6c12bf03/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A Taiwan flag can be seen at Liberty Square in Taipei, Taiwan, July 28, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang</i:caption><i:title>A Taiwan flag can be seen at Liberty Square in Taipei</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/covid-19-linked-to-increase-in-us-pregnancy-related-deaths</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/61/6d/c8b41e9b4cb0d485dd2b5c053c3599137e8f/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus on Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims, according to a report released Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)</i:caption><i:title>Maternal Health</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/nyc-opens-emergency-center-for-influx-of-bused-migrants</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/8b/33/947954514a7dedb2025a4f6b06d48dc52c80/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Members of the New York National Guard stand outside the Randall's Island Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, New York City's latest temporary shelter for an influx of international migrants being bused into the city by southern border states. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)</i:caption><i:title>Transporting Migrants NYC Tents</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/iran-arrests-14-foreigners-including-u.s.-citizens-over-unrest-fars</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/i-was-kicked-and-punched-at-china%27s-uk-consulate-protester-says</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/9b/21/1650307dd9bc2a718b82aae9c41e4ae3dc2b/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>General view of the Chinese Consulate General in Manchester, Britain, October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Phil Noble</i:caption><i:title>General view of the Chinese Consulate General in Manchester</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/french-govt-under-pressure-on-immigration-after-girl%27s-killing</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/73/b7/db08964eab8e003fdc4345c926321b6648d7/73b7db08964eab8e003fdc4345c926321b6648d7.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Police have determined that the main suspect had a history of psychiatric disorders</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/north-fires-more-shells-toward-inter-korean-sea-buffer-zone</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/dc/9a/11eafd98b8081db4c75e9fd44b089e0271d5/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's military exercise during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. North Korea fired artillery shells near its sea boundaries with South Korea late Tuesday, a day after the South began annual military drills to better deal with North Korean provocations. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)</i:caption><i:title>South Korea Koreas Tensions</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk-inflation-accelerates-to-40-year-high-amid-food-cost-rise</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/9b/9e/30be4f53295c63883304c5af1b0672414d0a/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Traffic outside the Bank of England, in the financial district in the City of London, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. The U.K.'s new Treasury chief ripped up the government's economic plan on Monday, dramatically reversing most of the tax cuts and spending plans that new Prime Minister Liz Truss announced less than a month ago. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)</i:caption><i:title>Britain Economy</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/new-zealand-proposes-stronger-terrorism-laws</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f9/e4/3f3f2a1e94b5a0fb8e0be4b7cdce4073542f/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>The New Zealand Parliament complex, popularly known as "Beehive" because of the building’s shape, in Wellington, New Zealand</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament complex, popularly known as "Beehive" because of the building’s shape, in Wellington</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/australia-to-investigate-reports-pilots-trained-chinese-military-minister</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/45/a6/56fd92cbe61a99f81619e0ebe6ba0a7b582b/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin hosts Australia Minister of Defense Richard Marles in Washington</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-destroys-power-and-water-infrastructure-across-ukraine2</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/cd/67/58a6ca4b65c7467d569ca92bb2739975470c/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A local resident takes pictures of a building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko</i:caption><i:title>Aftermath of Russian missile strike, in Mykolaiv</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/oath-keeper-wanted-u.s.-congress-to-%27be-afraid%27-of-certifying-biden-win</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a2/c2/680417e884b4c05456c59af720bb3c78cac2/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Police clear the U.S. Capitol Building with tear gas as supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather outside, in Washington, U.S. January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather in Washington</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/british-pm-truss-vows-to-carry-on-as-her-party-support-dwindles1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c1/b6/df69670a330e4ee05a27922e1d7777dc76d7/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Liz Truss looks on as she speaks to the media at the Empire State building in New York, U.S., September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Liz Truss to attend the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/french-strike-pits-workers-vs.-government-as-inflation-bites</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/33/1c/998b49606cccd147097416f93ea70a58eec7/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Protesters shout during a demonstration, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022 in Marseille, southern France. France is in the grip of transport strikes and protests for salary raise on Tuesday that threaten to dovetail with days of wage strikes that have already hobbled fuel refineries and depots, sparking chronic gasoline shortages around the country. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)</i:caption><i:title>APTOPIX France Protests</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/biden-prioritizing-abortion-legislation-ahead-of-midterms</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/82/55/a6c0a17d5a91f7c2f26ef26ef67123e00a8f/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>President Joe Biden speaks about abortion access during a Democratic National Committee event, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, at the Howard Theatre in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)</i:caption><i:title>APTOPIX Biden</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/north-korea-fires-artillery-shells-near-border-with-s.-korea</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/9d/09/6dc555ca16eb3c0b9b017a530487d1ff36be/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea on Oct. 14, 2022. South Korea says North Korea has fired about 100 shells off its west coast and 150 rounds off its east coast in its latest weapons test Tuesday night, Oct. 18. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)</i:caption><i:title>Koreas Tensions</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/biden-administration-to-provide-2-million-to-cuba-for-hurricane-ian-relief1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/07/ba/2cd8866837fa343ed740acb5fb16c9ca791a/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Linemen fix an electrical post damaged during Hurricane Ian in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, October 4, 2022. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini</i:caption><i:title>Aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Pinar del Rio, Cuba</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/italy%27s-berlusconi-says-has-exchanged-sweet-letters-with-putin</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e2/d8/6f823851848f1ecc293238273038e920cae1/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Silvio Berlusconi at an airport in Rome, Italy July 4, 2019. Picture taken July 4, 2019. Sputnik/Alexey Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS  ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Russian President Putin meets with Italian Member of the European Parliament Berlusconi in Rome</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/11-more-crash-deaths-are-linked-to-automated-tech-vehicles</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a9/7b/3098dd384386cd7eac534ddcc818f2c38016/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Cars wait at a red light during rush hour on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, April 22, 2021. Eleven additional people were killed in crashes involving vehicles using automated driving systems during a five-month period earlier this year, according to newly released government data, part of an alarming pattern of incidents linked to the technology. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)</i:caption><i:title>Automated Vehicles Crash Deaths</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/hundreds-linked-to-is-transfered-from-syria-to-iraq</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f5/4f/3a94f723acab298ee672f20f827407baf2eb/f54f3a94f723acab298ee672f20f827407baf2eb.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A member of the Syrian Kurdish security forces stands guard during an inspection at the Al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters, pictured here in August</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/man-convicted-of-killing-missing-california-college-student</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/72/11/7549356149360408241e485aacb17585fabf/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - This undated photo released by the FBI shows Kristin Smart, the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo student who disappeared in 1996. The last man seen with Smart was convicted on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, of killing the college freshman, who vanished from a California campus 25 years ago. (FBI via AP, File)</i:caption><i:title>Missing College Student Murder Trial</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/france-braces-for-nationwide-strikes-amidst-soaring-inflation</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3a/fa/3414b378e5fa8daff8aa59f6af0590947707/_w1700.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>French students block the entrance of the Lycee Montaigne high school to protest as part of a nationwide day of strike in Paris on Tuesday.</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk-says-working-to-stop-china-recruitment-of-ex-airforce-pilots</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/de/80/282398a90216cdc09fcd11d9e2868223c68f/de80282398a90216cdc09fcd11d9e2868223c68f.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>UK media said that China had recruited over 30 ex-pilots from Britain, with offers upwards of £240,000</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/australia-reverses-recognition-of-jerusalem-as-israeli-capital</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ee/38/1c6065898f89e8b8d9ff9dc40209f7dcb73c/ee381c6065898f89e8b8d9ff9dc40209f7dcb73c.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Australia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Penny Wong at U.N. headquarters on September 23.</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/new-uk-finance-minister-hunt-reverses-truss%27s-economic-plan-in-dramatic-u-turn1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/b9/8f/5acd8eed466d4e4d8811d30cff9d2a41c9e6/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: New Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, October 14, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: New Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 10 Downing Street in London</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/russian-warplane-crashes-in-sea-of-azov-port</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/af/6b/ff0d2e8214fbefd249c0e33f5c2aa69b8cd6/AP22290708416574.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Flames rise from the scene after a warplane crashed into a residential area in Yeysk, Russia, on Monday.</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/us-governments-tells-arizona-to-remove-border-containers</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/2f/df/2451c8a46e258d5d72bae6f87daffd9e1de2/AP22290602934754.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Border Patrol agents drive along a line of shipping containers stacked near the border near Yuma, Arizona, on Aug 23.</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/after-days-of-acrimony-italy%27s-meloni-and-berlusconi-meet</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/61/d6/10f6759e601c8d210f0377ee24af1aaa3ef5/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Forza Italia's Silvio Berlusconi, and Brothers of Italy's Giorgia Meloni attend the center-right coalition closing rally in Rome Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. The resounding victory by far-right leader Giorgia Meloni in Sept. 25 elections for Parliament isn't sitting well with Silvio Berlusconi, the former three-time conservative premier who, 40 years her senior, fancies himself the elder statesman of Italy's political right. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)</i:caption><i:title>Italy Politics</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/scholz-extends-life-of-germany%27s-remaining-nuclear-plants</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/14/73/a8ebe9d1e0cb7fad2234ee7384ae7802b0fa/1473a8ebe9d1e0cb7fad2234ee7384ae7802b0fa.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the three plants will run from the end of 2022 until April 2023</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/thousands-protest-in-haiti-as-un-to-discuss-troop-request</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/23/84/d6fec9b90103fcfb388dbc8f1b6474d6480c/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A protester holding up a skull and seashell shouts for the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the street in the Champs de Mars area where the prime minister attended a ceremony marking the death anniversary of revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)</i:caption><i:title>APTOPIX Haiti Anniversary</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/swedish-parliament-elects-conservative-prime-minister</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/8f/99/458a8a2166b80287bffb1cebe84ecd69005e/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Ulf Kristersson who has been elected as Sweden's new Prime Minister gestures, in Stockholm, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. The Swedish parliament has elected Ulf Kristersson — the conservative Moderate Party leader — as prime minister at the head of a coalition that is being supported by a once radical far-right party. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Sweden Politics</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/pacific-islands-defence-ministers-meet-in-tonga-to-boost-%27interoperability%271</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/83/f3/8b5bb6f12fd1ae93bc9d57845dc4e36d83a8/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles speaks as he and his Japanese counterpart Nobuo Kishi (not pictured) attend a joint news conference at the Ministry of Defence in Tokyo, Japan June 15, 2022. Shuji Kajiyama/Pool via REUTERS</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Australia's Defence Minister Marles meets his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/new-zealand-arts-funder-rejects-shakespeare-as-%27imperialism%27</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/27/37/4451270f703dc59eab267d4195bd824ab866/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a press conference in Sydney, Australia, July 8, 2022. New Zealand's arts council has decided to stop funding an organization that each year hosts Shakespeare festivals and competitions for thousands of teens and Ardern, who participated in the festival herself as a teenager, said Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, that she disagrees with the decision. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)</i:caption><i:title>New Zealand Shakespeare</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/police-campaign-signs-found-booby-trapped-with-razor-blades</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/3-un-peacekeepers-die-in-mali-roadside-bomb-attack</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/sri-lankan-author-shehan-karunatilaka-wins-booker-prize</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c1/d4/3d1ae1b40443365bbefb12266e103c557a1c/c1d43d1ae1b40443365bbefb12266e103c557a1c.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Britain's Camilla, Queen Consort presents the Booker Prize for fiction award to Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/kyiv%27s-central-district-rocked-by-blasts-second-time-in-week1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/1f/63/1b2089b51bfb05b14d4e64b1372cf2544f3a/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Smoke rises after a Russian drones strike, which local authorities consider to be Iranian made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Shahed-136, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich</i:caption><i:title>Smoke rises after a Russian drones strike in Kyiv</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/australian-floods-could-inundate-or-isolate-34-000-homes</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/30/28/8dc41aba05999bc7e54cee0691ff49012781/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A trio of cars are stuck in floodwaters in Shepparton, Australia, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. Around 34,000 homes could be inundated or isolated in Victoria state as a flood emergency continues across parts of Australia's southeast, an official said. (Diego Fedele/AAP Image via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Australia Floods</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/lawmakers-will-try-to-oust-uk-pm-truss-this-week-daily-mail-reports</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/63/86/0eae93a6b3212ef163ac8673aaeb519368fe/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Liz Truss attends a news conference in London, Britain, October 14, 2022.  Daniel Leal/Pool via REUTERS</i:caption><i:title>British Prime Minister Liz Truss attends a news conference in London</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/analysis-xi%27s-new-generals-face-tough-military-challenges-post-congress</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/be/06/49502cdf61d761be6f7f20b212fce3fe2ad1/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Visitors stand in front of a giant screen displaying Chinese President Xi Jinping next to a flag of the Communist Party of China, at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing, China October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo</i:caption><i:title>Exhibition at military museum in Beijing</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/aston-martin-showroom-hit-as-uk-vows-action-on-climate-protests</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/6b/c3/dbae1b19c787824ed18df7e401f547a0f594/6bc3dbae1b19c787824ed18df7e401f547a0f594.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Just Stop Oil wants an end to new fossil fuel licensing and production</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/ukraine-rockets-strike-mayor%27s-office-in-separatist-donetsk</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d7/06/cf466a166958ea55af9fc271c3fcef70d449/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Investigators inspect a site after shelling near an administrative building, in Donetsk, the capital of Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on Sunday.</i:caption><i:title>Russia Ukraine</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/protesters-march-in-paris-as-french-refinery-strikes-continue</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/0c/4c/66de984da2b3ede60d4ed3e5b2a541f83ce4/0c4c66de984da2b3ede60d4ed3e5b2a541f83ce4.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>The demonstration was called by the left-wing political opposition</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/france-ramps-up-war-support-for-ukraine-rebuilds-armories</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7d/62/420a54b0ac4bada0da20f0443256ac699b4d/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - A French artillery piece Caesar is photographed at the Eurosatory land and airland defense and security trade fair on June 13, 2022 in Villepinte, north of Paris. France on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022 pledged air defense systems to protect Ukrainian cities against drone strikes and an expanded training program for Ukrainian soldiers as it seeks to puncture perceptions that French President Emmanuel Macron's government has lagged in supporting Ukraine militarily against the Russian invasion. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Schaeffer)</i:caption><i:title>Russia Ukraine War France</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/biden-turning-to-trump-era-rule-to-expel-venezuelan-migrants</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/de/c4/d71530eb4f458cafe0f9976fa405bf91898c/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Venezuelan migrants wait for a bus to take them north, at the Northern Bus Station in Mexico City, Oct. 13, 2022. President Joe Biden last week invoked a Trump-era rule known as Title 42, which Biden's own Justice Department is fighting in court, to deny Venezuelans fleeing their crisis-torn country the chance to request asylum at the border. The rule, first invoked by Trump in 2020, uses emergency public health authority to allow the United States to keep migrants from seeking asylum at the border, based on the need to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)</i:caption><i:title>Biden Immigration</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/iran-prison-fire-kills-four-injures-61-as-protests-persist4</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/75/bc/4f45e387ef36ef90f98e9e3281b9a5ae34b2/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A view of smoke rising from Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, October 15, 2022 in this still image take from a video obtained by Reuters. </i:caption><i:title>A view of smoke rising from Evin Prison in Tehran</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/gop-hopefuls-turn-to-pence-to-broaden-appeal-before-election1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/85/05/8bf4076f57d928fab4d3c4f4de9f5339bf65/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Former Vice President Mike Pence gestures as he addresses the Convocation at Liberty University, Sep. 14, 2022, in Lynchburg, Va. By refusing to go along with  former president Donald Trump’s unconstitutional push to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Pence became a leading target of Trump’s wrath and a pariah in many Republican circles. But in the final weeks of an intensely competitive midterm election, Pence’s fortunes may be shifting. He’s an in-demand surrogate for Republican campaigns, including from some candidates who have spent much of the year hugging Trump and parroting his lie that the election was stolen. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)</i:caption><i:title>Election 2022 Pence</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/twelve-shot-dead-in-mexico-bar-attack-in-gang-plagued-state</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/gates-foundation-pledges-1.2b-to-eradicate-polio-globally</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f6/cb/0cb814a2e0a9840ddc26a0e20e50416b50a6/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - A person walks by the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on April 27, 2018, in Seattle. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, that it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)</i:caption><i:title>Gates Foundation Polio</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk-leader-liz-truss-goes-from-triumph-to-trouble-in-6-weeks</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f7/3d/48ab6e2beefc4491bbce312ff673ab636a65/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss makes a speech at the Conservative Party conference at the ICC in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Truss has only been in office for six weeks. But already her libertarian economic policies have triggered a financial crisis, emergency central bank intervention, multiple U-turns and the firing of her Treasury chief. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)</i:caption><i:title>Britain Truss in Trouble</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/bodycam-shows-hurt-connecticut-officer-shoot-ambush-suspect</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/8f/81/d85ed53e45b5dabddf5f3dab1bb41001742f/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Police investigate the scene where two police officers were killed the night before in Bristol, Conn., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. A segment of footage from a police body camera worn by Officer Alec Iurato was released Sunday, Oct. 16, as part of a preliminary report by the state's Office of the Inspector General in connection with the shooting  (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)</i:caption><i:title>Officers Shot Connecticut</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/3-people-killed-1-wounded-in-pittsburgh-shooting</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/china-will-never-renounce-right-to-use-force-over-taiwan-xi-says</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/83/50/179ca3a9f64b0df7bce725b891f997a473c6/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China October 16, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter</i:caption><i:title>Opening ceremony of Chinese Communist Party Congress</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/explainer-australia-floods-why-the-country-is-battling-weather-again</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7c/17/53d10573e989dfa9416f9a0e631791addaae/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A home is inundated by floodwaters, following heavy rains and severe flooding in the McGraths Hill suburb of Sydney, Australia, July 6, 2022. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Flooding from heavy rains affects western suburbs in Sydney</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/Ukraine-and-Russia-work-to-gain-advantage-in-annexed-regions</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a5/94/5bdb21c6be6d4b2a62890990f4dd64408aa8/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Police officers work at a site where several cars were damaged after a Russian attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)</i:caption><i:title>Russia Ukraine War</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-military-range-shooting-leaves-11-dead-15-wounded</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk%27s-new-finance-minister-admits-taxes-to-rise-as-pm-reels</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/fd/09/0cf5368231fc38cbbdbf66671a2f7e5893c8/fd090cf5368231fc38cbbdbf66671a2f7e5893c8.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Liz Truss appointed the Tory centrist Jeremy Hunt as finance minister</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/rights-group-233-killed-in-iran-protests-enter-fifth-week</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/in-france-fuel-crisis-frays-nerves-and-workers%27-resilience</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/bd/23/317f50bbfbf24991372f305b41ad4f58eef9/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>People push their car in a line of vehicles waiting to reach a station, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022 in Nanterre, outside Paris. Strikes in the French refineries of TotalEnergies group were still going on Friday, heavily disrupting fuel supplies as hard-left CGT union rejected a deal over pay rise that has been found between the energy giant and two other more moderate unions. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)</i:caption><i:title>APTOPIX France Fuel Shortages</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/germany%27s-scholz-calls-for-bigger-european-union</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/07/16/17ce98559ac8e16bebdec9688df939cc443a/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO - Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during the PES Congress of the European Social Democrats in Berlin, Germany, October 15, 2022. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO - PES Congress of the European Social Democrats in Berlin</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/greece-says-turkey-forced-naked-migrants-to-cross-border</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/one-dead-as-australia-floods-start-to-recede</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/19/13/881ae9408d0b3d883a9b65ac3a3e9db30747/1913881ae9408d0b3d883a9b65ac3a3e9db30747.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>The Melbourne suburbs were among the worst-hit areas during days of widespread flash flooding in Australia</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/vogue-singapore-penalised-for-promoting-%27non-traditional%27-families</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/putin-says-ukraine-mobilisation-should-be-finished-in-two-weeks1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ea/34/1ee610fec658fef1ad40994d64b5a1999b01/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A woman stands near her destroyed car near an old mill, built around 1885, also destroyed during a Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine October 14, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer</i:caption><i:title>Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzhia</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/eco-activists-throw-soup-over-van-gogh%27s-%27sunflowers%27-in-london</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/10/4b/8db0a4987b3f171b7b6299f624f715a6b0c4/104b8db0a4987b3f171b7b6299f624f715a6b0c4.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Protesters recently threw tomato soup over a Van Gogh painting in London</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk-treasury-chief-dashes-back-to-london-amid-crisis</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3b/93/3b2ade556785f58258ef4c3ff1d2f63fc028/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss attends a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London, Friday Oct. 14, 2022, following the sacking of the finance minister in response to a budget that sparked markets chaos. (Daniel Leal/Pool Photo via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Britain Economy</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/ireland-examines-neutrality-stance-after-ukraine-war-minister</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/31/a6/71e94d1fae45f1ce31b2615cda5fb5fdca67/31a671e94d1fae45f1ce31b2615cda5fb5fdca67.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Irish neutrality goes hand-in-hand with a firm pro-Ukraine stance by parliament and the people</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/dutch-princess-security-threat-raises-crime-fears</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/cf/d6/7a3829d0b342e7b956a84581e8a566aa94c1/cfd67a3829d0b342e7b956a84581e8a566aa94c1.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Princess Amalia started at Amsterdam university in September</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/lula-leading-bolsonaro-in-second-round-of-brazil-election-poll-shows1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/b6/52/6161c8072c2bd1b070b32bab22f16c9da448/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Former Brazil's President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a campaign rally in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil October 14, 2022. REUTERS/Diego Nigro/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>Former Brazil's President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a campaign rally in Recife</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/at-least-14-killed-dozens-trapped-in-turkey-mine-blast</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/9a/29/355dea38b291c6a01eace5db8ef45228e62c/9a29355dea38b291c6a01eace5db8ef45228e62c.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>More than 100 coal miners were working hundreds of metres below ground at the time of the explosion</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/spacex-ferries-astronauts-back-to-earth-after-half-year-away</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/head-of-zero-emission-truck-venture-found-guilty-of-fraud</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/de/40/e56977f1024b0db55725956e052caba7be3b/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE — Trevor Milton, left, leaves the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, Sept. 12, 2022, in New York. Milton was convicted Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, of charges he deceived investors with exaggerated claims about his company's progress in producing zero-emission 18-wheel trucks, fueled by electricity or hydrogen. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)</i:caption><i:title>Nikola Milton Trial</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/families-face-man-charged-in-killings-of-22-elderly-texans</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e0/71/f396210ac8413b04cdbcd66cb1e11c116d7a/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Ellen French House, center, daughter of victim Norma French, alongside her family members becomes emotional as she gives her victim impact statement  in accused killer Billy Chemirmir's trial at Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Chemirmir, charged with killing 22 elderly women in the Dallas area over a two-year span, was found guilty last Friday, Oct. 7,  in one of their deaths — his second murder conviction. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Elderly Deaths-Trial</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/haiti-gang-makes-demands-in-test-of-power-with-government</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk-finance-chief-rushes-home-to-face-budget-storm</loc><lastmod>2022-10-14</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/0d/a4/f642ddbf39c51db7ef095c06f6cd07869a9d/0da4f642ddbf39c51db7ef095c06f6cd07869a9d.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng had been under pressure due to their plans for unfunded tax cuts</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/flood-waters-swamp-melbourne-as-heavy-rains-slam-three-australian-states1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-14</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/90/f0/a81b8a9adc7c79e8d6af22d31cd07a6e9e91/AP22287009059054.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A woman is rescued from floodwaters in Melbourne on Friday.</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/5-killed-in-North-Carolina-shooting</loc><lastmod>2022-10-14</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/b6/5b/0cbef8c3bab7999b71264da3dccdbd9c8084/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption/><i:title>North Carolina Shooting</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/un-chief-urges-yemen%27s-warring-parties-to-extend-truce</loc><lastmod>2022-10-14</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/34/f7/10426507d50b4f91eee250d46b128298aed0/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Houthi supporters attend a rally marking the seventh anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition's intervention in Yemen's war, in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2022.  Hans Grundberg, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen is blaming Houthi rebels for the failure to renew a six-month-long truce, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022.  (AP Photo/Abdulsalam Sharhan, File)</i:caption><i:title>United Nations Yemen</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/taiwan-welcomes-back-visitors-after-ending-covid-quarantine-rules</loc><lastmod>2022-10-13</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/64/51/9d099b54160f397394c63faa1356e3e57e84/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Travellers from Thailand on the first quarantine-free flight to Taiwan, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, receive a welcome by officials and the media at the airport in Taoyuan, Taiwan, October 13, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang</i:caption><i:title>Travellers from Thailand on the first quarantine free flight to Taiwan receive welcome by officials and the media at the airport in Taoyuan,</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/united-nations-condemns-russia%27s-move-to-annex-parts-of-ukraine1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-13</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/bd/8d/2478a9ca747776e5f509eb66fcd030ac6324/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Monitors at the United Nations General Assembly hall display a vote on a resolution condemning the annexation of parts of Ukraine by Russia, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on Wednesday.</i:caption><i:title>The monitors at the United Nations General Assembly hall display a vote to resolution condemning the annexation of parts of Ukraine amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/iranians-keep-up-protests-over-mahsa-amini-death-despite-mounting-fatalities1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-13</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e6/55/6de169ca4d14a2b45fd4b8dfca134a39e904/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS </i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, in Tehran</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/taiwan-says-china-looking-at-ukraine-war-to-develop-%27hybrid%27-strategies1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-13</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a6/04/b7652a0bf59d9db733eda0161824633b3b4d/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>An illustration of a plane is seen in front of Chinese and Taiwanese flags.</i:caption><i:title>Illustration shows airplane, Chinese and Taiwanese flags</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/china-steps-up-anti-covid-measures-in-megacities-as-infections-mount3</loc><lastmod>2022-10-12</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d5/c1/164a9dbff540f0b37bd8b203b741145b025e/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Women with dogs chat through gaps in a barrier at a sealed area, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday.</i:caption><i:title>COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/iran-protests-over-woman%27s-death-persist-despite-crackdown2</loc><lastmod>2022-10-12</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/73/5a/393e374b811a6f555ae511533b03978fcdab/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, near the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey September 29, 2022. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: People take part in a protest following the death of Mahsa Amini, in Istanbul</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/hundreds-search-for-signs-of-relatives-following-venezuela-floods</loc><lastmod>2022-10-12</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/1a/c3/4116e1f355800e81a1d96ed8d2a0e359ff4d/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Rescue personnel work to recover bodies of people swept away by devastating floods following heavy rain in Las Tejerias, Aragua state, Venezuela, October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria</i:caption><i:title>Devastating floods following heavy rain, in Las Tejerias</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-vows-to-respond-to-greater-western-involvement-in-ukraine</loc><lastmod>2022-10-11</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d2/96/960ac199413f3444315c229fd93720f9d161/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A driver walks near his burned car after a Russian military strike in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday.</i:caption><i:title>A military strike in central Kyiv</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/thai-pm-orders-tighter-gun-control-drugs-crackdown-after-mass-killing1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-11</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/1f/a0/487ba954ef3d38e429f22fa3d8adb41ae6de/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>People pray at Wat Si Uthai temple Monday, following a mass shooting in the town of Uthai Sawan, Nong Bua Lam Phu province, Thailand.</i:caption><i:title>Thailand Mass Shooting</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/covid-cases-rise-in-shanghai-other-chinese-cities-preventive-steps-strengthened</loc><lastmod>2022-10-11</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/7c/f3/dea7025770580417a3cc3802734488d2f72f/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>People wearing protective face masks walk, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China, October 10, 2022. REUTERS/Aly Song</i:caption><i:title>COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/china-urges-%27patience%27-as-covid-cases-rebound-ahead-of-key-congress</loc><lastmod>2022-10-10</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/85/97/3e4b1606e147c7fa0cbd04bd26e1db123b3a/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A man gets a swab at a nucleic acid testing station set up to trace possible coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks in Beijing, China, October 7, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter</i:caption><i:title>A man gets a swab at a nucleic acid testing station set up to trace possible coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks in Beijing</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/taiwan-tells-china-that-armed-confrontation-%27absolutely-not-an-option%271</loc><lastmod>2022-10-10</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/22/17/ad58739f214896990eeed764935ded336944/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech to honor military generals in Taipei, Taiwan, June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang</i:caption><i:title>Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech to honor military generals in Taipei</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/chinese-ambassador-thanks-musk-for-proposal-on-taiwan</loc><lastmod>2022-10-10</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/76/de/eb5e3dde0bfed9dc3e5c9bc0571cc706ca6e/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO - SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a conversation with legendary game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2019.  REUTERS/Mike Blake</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO - SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a conversation with legendary game designer Todd Howard at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/venezuela-floods-kill-22-after-heavy-rains</loc><lastmod>2022-10-10</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/8a/07/66a9cce57687476bc29659a45457639ac432/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: People walk through a flooded street in Maracay, Venezuela, October 6, 2022, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Carmen Elisa Pecorelli/via REUTERS </i:caption><i:title>Flooded streets in Maracay, Venezuela</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/heavy-rains-ease-in-australia%27s-new-south-wales-flood-warnings-remain</loc><lastmod>2022-10-09</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/blast-hits-crimea-bridge-crucial-to-russia%27s-war</loc><lastmod>2022-10-09</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e6/f5/b7c59ba30fa683e390ce68e9b8b5ba171d95/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Smoke rises from fire on the Kerch bridge in the Kerch Strait, Crimea, October 8, 2022.  REUTERS/Stringer</i:caption><i:title>Smoke rises from fire on the Kerch bridge in the Kerch Strait, Crimea</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/women-students-tell-iran%27s-president-to-%27get-lost%27-as-unrest-rages</loc><lastmod>2022-10-09</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/72/07/b47e757da4c3446729394b149e3f1bebf708/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A newspaper with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police" is seen in Tehran, Iran September 18, 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS </i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Newspapers with Amini, a victim of country's "morality police", are seen in Tehran</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/two-palestinians-die-in-west-bank-clash-shooting-attack-in-jerusalem</loc><lastmod>2022-10-09</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/92/ab/d826e034d344d053fd05dd137ac661858536/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinian Mahdi Ladado, 17, who was killed by Israeli forces during clashes, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman</i:caption><i:title>Funeral of Palestinian teen killed by Israeli forces, in the West Bank</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/assange-supporters-form-human-chain-at-uk-parliament</loc><lastmod>2022-10-09</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/db/02/2419f691be5fc22247aa413bf5c17d2eeec9/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange create a human chain outside Houses of Parliament during a protest, in London, Britain October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls</i:caption><i:title>Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange create human chain around Westminster in London</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/ireland-%27numb%27-as-10-die-at-petrol-station-explosion</loc><lastmod>2022-10-09</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/after-russia-ukraine-plan-musk-offers-proposal-to-resolve-china-taiwan-tensions</loc><lastmod>2022-10-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/ad/97/7eaeda5c2da248a0fc47fb98cf2a3a43da96/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk delivers Model X electric sports-utility vehicles during a presentation in Freemont, California September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk delivers Model X electric sports-utility vehicles during a presentation in Freemont</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/britain-and-ireland-talk-up-improved-mood-in-n.ireland-negotiations</loc><lastmod>2022-10-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/12/61/e947b0e30b310985f011ecec3e7d7ae6f401/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, Ireland's Minister for Justice Helen McEntee, Minister of State for Northern Ireland Steve Baker and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris hold a news conference, during the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference in London, Britain, October 7, 2022. 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Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Liz Truss visit to U.S. for the United Nations General Assembly, in New York</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/nord-stream-investigation-finds-evidence-of-detonations-swedish-police-say2</loc><lastmod>2022-10-07</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/37/5c/fcf85a3b58824be8d048415feaa3678d7f77/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO - A satellite image shows gas from the Nord Stream pipeline bubbling up in the water following incidents in the Baltic Sea, in this handout picture released September 29, 2022. 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REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra      </i:caption><i:title>A view shows destroyed Russian tanks and armoured vehicles, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the recently liberated town of Lyman</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/u.s.-accuses-china-russia-of-enabling-north-korea%27s-kim-jong-un1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-06</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/56/53/719ee9f61bcb087ad5fee239f3573f0d95b8/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: China's and U.S.' flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Illustration shows China's and U.S.' flags</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/iranian-police-deploy-at-universities-as-unrest-over-mahsa-amini%27s-death-churns-on1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-06</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/18/84/a468054035623fb7c71b64b4ae4fd4d4e4b9/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Female protesters react and chant towards a man standing at a podium in Shiraz, Fars province, Iran October 4, 2022 in this still image from a video obtained by REUTERS   NO RESALES. 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REUTERS/Ann Wang</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen gives a speech at a navy base in Penghu Islands,</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/fan-loses-wife-two-teenage-daughters-in-indonesia-soccer-stampede1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-05</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f8/a2/d0390acbc26f14af37971770dd22b23dbca1/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A picture of Andi Hariyanto and his late wife Gebi Asta Putri Purwoko, who died in a recent riot and stampede following a soccer match between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya at Kanjuruhan stadium, hangs on a wall at his house in Malang, East Java province, Indonesia, October 4, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan</i:caption><i:title>A husband who lost his wife and two daughters in recent soccer riot and stampede in Malang</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/australia%27s-telstra-hit-by-data-breach-two-weeks-after-attack-on-optus</loc><lastmod>2022-10-05</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a8/ad/9e27c1f6f670b1ba5efc5659fde3e81f5880/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A man walks as he talks on his phone as another man runs behind him on a Winter day in central Sydney, Australia, July 4, 2017.  REUTERS/David Gray</i:caption><i:title>A man walks as he talks on his phone as another man runs behind him on a Winter day in central Sydney, Australia</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/bangladesh-plunged-into-darkness-by-national-grid-failure1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-05</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/94/4e/bd2b546e2ed1ce9814976cd20bd78eabfe82/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A pharmaceutical shop uses candle lights to serve customers during countrywide blackout in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 4, 2022. 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TT News Agency/ Jonas Ekstromervia REUTERS   </i:caption><i:title>Nobel Prize in Physics</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/ukraine-forces-advance-on-two-fronts-cross-russian-lines-in-the-south</loc><lastmod>2022-10-04</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f9/78/bced944301868e98b968cb844fb022f3957b/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Ukrainians ride an armoured vehicle in the Donesk region of Ukraine on Monday.</i:caption><i:title>Ukrainians ride an armoured vehicle in Donesk region</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/musk-and-zelenskiy-in-twitter-showdown-over-billionaire%27s-peace-plan</loc><lastmod>2022-10-04</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/9a/94/961888722a5d9ab4b834417709223a660f62/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk's Twitter profile is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this picture illustration taken April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: Illustration shows Elon Musk's Twitter profile on smartphone and printed Twitter logos</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk%27s-truss-forced-into-humiliating-tax-u-turn</loc><lastmod>2022-10-03</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/1b/b2/187a6ded28c6b487d5f315ed532c1ea7cb2a/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>British Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng attend the annual Conservative Party conference, in Birmingham, Britain, October 2, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah McKay</i:caption><i:title>Britain's Conservative Party annual conference in Birmingham</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/kabul-blast-a-setback-for-afghan-women-seeking-education-against-the-odds1</loc><lastmod>2022-10-03</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/1f/15/9a7d0025d0d1b5a6ba1abcec02d4360b76d3/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>A view of an entrance of Mohammad Ali Jinah Hospital, following a suicide attack at a tutoring center in the Dasht-e-Barchi district in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept 30.</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: View of an entrance of Mohammad Ali Jinah Hospital in the Dasht-e-Barchi district in west Kabul</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/australia-to-rescue-families-of-islamic-state-fighters-from-syria</loc><lastmod>2022-10-03</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/ukraine-reclaims-full-control-from-russia-of-logistics-hub-expects-more-gains</loc><lastmod>2022-10-03</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a3/d5/43a651ead61d308abacd05e458cea3f4ece4/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Ukrainian troops pose for a photo in Lyman, Ukraine in this picture released in social media October 1, 2022. Courtesy of Oleksiy Biloshytskyi/via REUTERS</i:caption><i:title>Ukrainian troops pose for a photo in Lyman</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/greece-says-it%27s-open-to-talks-with-turkey-once-provocations-end</loc><lastmod>2022-10-03</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/3e/b0/820944310eff47c5c9b4be81c9b254562754/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO - Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias arrives for a two day NATO foreign ministers meeting in Berlin, Germany May 14, 2022. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO - NATO foreign ministers meeting, in Berlin</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/australian-government-slams-optus-for-cybersecurity-breach</loc><lastmod>2022-10-02</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-abandons-key-bastion-putin-ally-suggests-a-nuclear-response</loc><lastmod>2022-10-02</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a5/70/f5ac73ebde5897ad2a9600c28d1e3f0b0716/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: An Ukrainian soldier looks out from a tank, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the frontline city of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo</i:caption><i:title>FILE PHOTO: An Ukrainian soldier looks out from a tank, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the frontline city of Lyman, Donetsk region</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/florida-carolinas-count-the-cost-of-hurricane-ian3</loc><lastmod>2022-10-02</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/fd/71/27ab68245b38ac1e14c8a102e7d87f6adc71/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Caden Simmons, a 16-year-old local resident, walks with a U.S. flag on a flooded street after he recovered it from flood waters, as Hurricane Ian bears down on Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., September 30, 2022.  REUTERS/Jonathan Drake   </i:caption><i:title>Hurricane Ian bears down on Charleston</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/protesters-rally-across-iran-in-third-week-of-unrest-over-amini%27s-death2</loc><lastmod>2022-10-02</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/74/54/c91c580534ee69c62ecbc390e71afd868a7b/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 19, 2022. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS </i:caption><i:title>Protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, in Tehran</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/world/gunfire-confusion-grip-burkina-faso-day-after-coup-fire-breaks-out-at-french-embassy</loc><lastmod>2022-10-02</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/eb/8e/6d560da90fe38f398d6fa4ba3d11c887ce59/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Kiswensida Farouk Aziz Sorgho announces on television that army captain Ibrahim Traore has ousted Burkina Faso's military leader Paul-Henri Damiba and dissolved the government and constitution, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, September 30, 2022, in this still image obtained from a video. 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(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)</i:caption><i:title>Soccer World Cup Ghana</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/british-minister-tells-gay-world-cup-fans-to-%27be-respectful%27</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/62/42/3bba2818d041923bb592c5fcd0ce86ba7dee/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>James Cleverly the Foreign Secretary arrives for a Cabinet meeting, in London, on Wednesday.</i:caption><i:title>Britain Politics</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/qatar-set-for-world-cup-debut-with-something-to-prove</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/44/c8/f0749c33dd308456d7c6df4bb686205966f8/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Qatar's Akram Afif is in action during the group A Arab Cup soccer match between Qatar and Bahrain at the Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)</i:caption><i:title>Soccer World Cup Qatar</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/lionel-messi-key-as-always-for-argentina-at-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/b0/40/b465d507cb0fb2ee07b3d0e62184714dad19/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Argentina's Lionel Messi controls the ball during a qualifying soccer match against Ecuador for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at Monumental Banco Pichincha stadium in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (Franklin Jacome/Pool via AP)</i:caption><i:title>Soccer World Cup Argentina</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/mexico-challenged-by-injuries-tough-group-at-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-27</lastmod><changefreq>hourly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/19/93/0e3c70b5e9dba5ff9fcbc0f6d3ab910eacfc/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Mexico's Hector Herrera controls the ball during the second half of a FIFA World Cup qualifying soccer match between Mexico and the United States, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in Cincinnati. The U.S. won 2-0. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)</i:caption><i:title>Soccer World Cup Mexico</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/qatar-hit-by-%27unprecedented-campaign%27-over-world-cup-says-emir</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/0e/b9/7b7e04300485f3f92f08f21ff44432afcfde/0eb97b7e04300485f3f92f08f21ff44432afcfde.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/england-ready-for-world-cup-test-but-doubts-persist</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f3/8f/e5af870a71380892ba5c7f1ddbbd5a4a56d4/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - England's Harry Kane, center, runs with the ball during the World Cup 2022 group I qualifying soccer match between San Marino and England at Olympic Stadium, in Serravalle, San Marino, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)</i:caption><i:title>Soccer World Cup England</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/iran-preps-for-world-cup-with-unrest-at-home</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/19/f3/c00290aa2e40cc050eeb6f7eff57548423b5/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Iran forward Mehdi Taremi celebrates after he scored first goal during the AFC Asian Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Iran and China at Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)</i:caption><i:title>Soccer World Cup Iran</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/france-looks-to-mbappe-and-benzema-to-win-a-3rd-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-26</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/1a/c8/96972c600fbc2fbf378e1b704574a6c6c08f/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>France's Kylian Mbappe reacts after missing a chance to score during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between France and Austria at the Stade de France stadium in Saint Denis, outside Paris, France,Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)</i:caption><i:title>Soccer World Cup France</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/world-cup-fans-could-bring-political-tensions-to-quiet-qatar</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c3/cb/a0114ff3ff8f64f3c58ef6870fdc1f541291/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - People gather around the official countdown clock showing remaining time until the kick-off of the World Cup 2022, in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Qatar is a devoutly apolitical place, with speech and assembly heavily restricted and a large population of foreign workers who could lose their livelihoods if they cause a stir.&#13;
But that could change next month, when an estimated 1.2 million soccer fans descend on the tiny Gulf Arab nation for the World Cup. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)</i:caption><i:title>SOC WCup Qatar Political Activism</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/hrw-says-qatar-has-detained-and-mistreated-lgbt-people-ahead-of-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/us-heads-to-world-cup-with-players-struggling-for-game-time</loc><lastmod>2022-10-25</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c6/16/b57e28ee00f90e32f03b27117bf8051baa08/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - United States Tyler Adams, left, and United States Joshua Sargent, right, playing during the international friendly soccer match between USA and Japan as part of the Kirin Challenge Cup in Duesseldorf, Germany, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)</i:caption><i:title>Soccer World Cup US</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/qatar-pressed-on-safety-of-women-travelling-to-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-24</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/2c/9f/aee2b368c3de53736c5da9834bf47f562116/2c9faee2b368c3de53736c5da9834bf47f562116_5.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Five women are suing Qatar Airways and the state-run Qatar Civil Aviation Authority after they were subjected to intrusive searches at Doha Airport in 2020</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/qatar-world-cup-supporters%27-guide</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/75/d1/e6d2dbe82075f0d31705c05444a3b2b0c8ff/75d1e6d2dbe82075f0d31705c05444a3b2b0c8ff.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Qatar is expecting at least one million people to visit during the World Cup</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/us-to-face-vietnam-netherlands-at-women%27s-soccer-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e8/86/f7643682806af4e2dc55d5b73444c945f2a2/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Jill Ellis, former United States team coach, carries the FIFA Women's World Cup Trophy during the Powhiri ceremony ahead of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 draw in Auckland, New Zealand, Friday OCT. 21, 2022. The draw for the tournament to be held in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 will be held on Saturday, Oct. 22. (Alan Lee/photosport via AP)</i:caption><i:title>New Zealand Soccer WCup Draw</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/infantino-says-broadcasters-offer-%27100-times-less%27-for-women%27s-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-23</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/2b/d2/92aa345b080eb91d02d3e1bd342e6b206122/2bd292aa345b080eb91d02d3e1bd342e6b206122.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FIFA president Gianni Infantino says some broadcasters offer "100 times" less for television rights to screen the Women's World Cup</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/qatar%27s-eight-world-cup-stadiums</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/fa/09/f6201fbf16030c764b336b3da00f2f95340d/fa09f6201fbf16030c764b336b3da00f2f95340d_2.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>The Lusail Iconic Stadium, which will host this year's World Cup final, is situated in a new planned city just to the north of Doha</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/brazil-jersey-hostage-to-politics-a-month-from-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/45/6c/37546987f9d90fe53a94eb9e60a171176c1b/456c37546987f9d90fe53a94eb9e60a171176c1b.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>With Brazil's incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro adopting the colors of the flag as his own, Julio Cesar Freitas felt compelled to add a clarification to his family's green and yellow street decorations: 'It's not politics, it's the World Cup'</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/canada-adds-nov-11-exhibition-at-bahrain-ahead-of-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/38/57/8616c752bbf426f99681a524e0937ed38e18/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Bayern's Alphonso Davies, centre, celebrates after scoring his side's fifth goal during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, match between FC Augsburg and FC Bayern Munich at the WWK Arena in Augsburg, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)</i:caption><i:title>Germany Soccer Cup</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/reluctant-referee-yamashita-on-brink-of-world-cup-history</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/49/0b/ed9e312522891d80bc58bb10ab7001da95c8/490bed9e312522891d80bc58bb10ab7001da95c8.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Yamashita became the first woman to officiate an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League match in April</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/host-qatar%27s-world-cup-%27carbon-neutral%27-claims-under-fire</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/29/80/26e077f1db98a488df242f5fa80c1504b622/298026e077f1db98a488df242f5fa80c1504b622_1.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Most of the expected emissions from the FIFA World Cup in Qatar are from transport, infrastructure building and housing</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/women%27s-football-on-all-time-high-ahead-of-biggest-world-cup-draw</loc><lastmod>2022-10-21</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/38/7b/6fa67e28c777b76bd35461cf2aca18065bbc/387b6fa67e28c777b76bd35461cf2aca18065bbc.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Sherida Spitse (L) and Megan Rapinoe of the US tussle for the ball in the 2019 final</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/qatar%27s-glitzy-world-cup-is-ready-and-expensive</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/9e/a6/064698e06a399041aa9f43a8a55065b3232d/9ea6064698e06a399041aa9f43a8a55065b3232d.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>The Lusail Stadium on the outskirts of Qatar's capital Doha</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/euro-kings-italy-nursing-world-cup-wound-as-another-rebuild-begins</loc><lastmod>2022-10-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/5a/40/898bb270707ff00728a57fd57144eae97b3a/5a40898bb270707ff00728a57fd57144eae97b3a_1.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Roberto Mancini has another rebuilding job on his hands after failing to qualify for the World Cup</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/qatar-inaugurates-solar-plant-to-help-power-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/0a/a4/0b60b9eeac062a88d0d9d010b5062acdf063/0aa40b60b9eeac062a88d0d9d010b5062acdf063.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Qatar has announced a target of five gigawatts of solar energy capacity by 2035</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/france-star-kante-out-of-world-cup-after-hamstring-operation</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/fa/6c/bd6229cf8240ae12925764c09ed0f2d8e774/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Chelsea's N'Golo Kante reacts during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Burnley at the Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Nov. 6, 2021. Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante has suffered a fresh setback in his fight to shake off his latest hamstring injury. The France midfielder did not travel to Italy on Monday Oct. 10, 2022, ahead of Chelsea's match against AC Milan in the Champions League after having what manager Graham Potter said was a "reaction in training." (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)</i:caption><i:title>Chelsea Kante</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/pogba-back-training-with-juventus-aiming-for-world-cup-spot</loc><lastmod>2022-10-19</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a3/1f/921b97b23bec7d15d9e6b982fc94dbab482b/download_1.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - Soccer players Mathias Pogba, left, Paul Pogba pose for photographers upon arrival at the MTV European Music Awards 2017 in London, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. A police investigation into allegations that France soccer star Paul Pogba was targeted by extortionists took a bizarre new twist Friday Sept. 23, 2022 with the release by one of the suspects, his elder brother Mathias, of a long string of videos taking aim at the 2018 World Cup winner, his entourage and wealthy lifestyle. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)</i:caption><i:title>France Pogba</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/world-cup-boom-pushes-some-qatar-residents-out-of-homes</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c6/60/c575cac49cc2c7433de1d1b991719b6ec7ec/c660c575cac49cc2c7433de1d1b991719b6ec7ec.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>The tiny Gulf nation expects more than one million visitors during the football World Cup</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/world-cup-ticket-sales-top-90-of-stadium-capacity-in-qatar</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c3/97/b6ad8dde8112287178dfc3d2c2bfe44fd29b/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Mexico national soccer team fans pose with a replica of the World Cup trophy in the Iztapalapa neighborhood of Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. The World Cup tour kicked off in May in Dubai and will visit the Mexican cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara before continuing their world tour ahead of the World Cup in Qatar. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)</i:caption><i:title>Mexico World Cup Tour</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/world-cup-host-qatar-wins-rights-for-2023-asian-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-18</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/neymar-goes-on-trial-in-barcelona-ahead-of-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-17</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/fa/6a/a862aa560dee82844210b74b8aa4ecab0834/fa6aa862aa560dee82844210b74b8aa4ecab0834.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Neymar joined Barcelona in 2013 and became a crowd favourite at Camp Nou</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/long-bumpy-4wd-ride-to-qatar%27s-acclaimed-desert-art</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/fc/f4/ee146eb512ec14cf0e44f072de660e53c8c6/fcf4ee146eb512ec14cf0e44f072de660e53c8c6.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Two of the four steel slabs of US artist Richard Serra's "East-West/West-East" installation in the Qatari desert</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/focus-for-saudi-qatar-players-is-already-on-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-16</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/f0/d6/f62b89832b7089c5d64c3cb3b8378d7bae8c/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Saudi Arabia's coach Herve Renard shouts during the international friendly soccer match between Saudi Arabia and United States in Murcia, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Breton)</i:caption><i:title>US Saudi Arabia Soccer</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/french-football-chiefs-promise-checks-after-workers%27-conditions-in-qatar-exposed</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/21/aa/b3d0fea4b54c01e833d619b0a9714c4e1eb3/21aab3d0fea4b54c01e833d619b0a9714c4e1eb3.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Workers walk past a billboard in Qatar showing the World Cup mascot "La'eeb"</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/chelsea%E2%80%99s-james-kante-could-miss-world-cup-due-to-injury</loc><lastmod>2022-10-15</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/4d/4c/5383f92b1514d24aeb88188dbef586164e23/4d4c5383f92b1514d24aeb88188dbef586164e23_1.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Chelsea manager Graham Potter said France midfielder N'Golo Kante's injury progress ahead of the World Cup was 'not good news'</i:caption><i:title/></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/fbi-back-at-fifa-teaming-up-to-protect-the-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-14</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/2b/75/0650fefebb087ed3f2fe6a84883e3acedb22/download.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE - An FBI seal is seen on a wall on Aug. 10, 2022, in Omaha, Neb. The FBI estimates violent crime rates didn’t increase substantially last year, though they remained above pre-pandemic levels, according to annual crime data released Wednesday, Oct. 6. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)</i:caption><i:title>FBI Crime Report</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/qatar-population-surges-13.2-in-year-leading-up-to-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-10</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/e2/33/8df8f6fa6467d0a9d8558da86c89b4fa8386/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>The tournament's official logo for the 2022 Qatar World Cup</i:caption><i:title>The tournament's official logo for the 2022 Qatar World Cup is seen on the wall of an amphitheater, in Doha</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/soccer-denmark-will-travel-to-qatar-without-families-in-human-rights-protest-report</loc><lastmod>2022-10-06</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/a8/f7/2d4cece50b6f2c904161c98b89e5e004985d/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar</i:caption><i:title>FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Stadium Preview</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/Japan%27s-national-soccer-team-heads-into-the-unknown-in-Qatar</loc><lastmod>2022-10-05</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/soccer-informal-workers-at-risk-of-exploitation-in-qatar-during-world-cup-u.s.-official</loc><lastmod>2022-10-05</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/26/88/e2e3339fd600de80d69cd2f98d5674951d78/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>U.S. Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Uzra Zeya, speaks to Reuters at the U.S embassy in Doha, Qatar, on Oct 2.</i:caption><i:title>U.S. Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Uzra Zeya, speaks to Reuters at the U.S embassy in Doha</i:title></i:image></url><url><loc>https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/soccer-women%27s-rights-group-calls-on-fifa-to-kick-iran-out-of-world-cup</loc><lastmod>2022-10-03</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority><i:image><i:loc>https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/c7/61/2a159db59f74040290a7e785dab54c158ca3/tagreuters.jpg</i:loc><i:caption>FILE PHOTO: The FIFA World Cup Trophy sits on a stand during an unveiling ceremony in Tehran, Iran September 1, 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS</i:caption><i:title>Unveiling ceremony of the FIFA World Cup Trophy in Tehran</i:title></i:image></url></urlset>
