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Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Friday suspended operations at the No. 6 reactor of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, for inspections, part of procedures for restarting a reactor that has been

Yokohama, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Seven officers of the Kanagawa prefectural police department were referred to prosecutors on Friday for allegedly falsifying traffic violation tickets and related investigation reports. The police department of Kanagawa, south of Tokyo, will cancel some 2,700 traffic violation

(Adnkronos) – A general strike is underway today in Argentina against the labor market reform proposed by ultra-liberal president Javier Milei. This is the fourth time Argentine unions have called a general strike against Milei’s far-right government, and today’s strike coincides with

(Adnkronos) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen “will visit the Arctic region” in March, on a trip that “will also include Greenland”. This was confirmed by the EU executive’s chief spokesperson Paula Pinho during the daily press briefing, specifying that

(Adnkronos) – Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, will assume the role of deputy commander in the international stabilization force in Gaza. This was announced by American General Jasper Jeffers during the inaugural meeting of President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,”

(Adnkronos) – Last Saturday, a jihadist incursion on a paramilitary base in Burkina Faso killed about 40 people, according to what a security source told AFP today, stating that the Tandjari forest area, in the eastern province of Gourma, “was the target

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani has condemned the murder of far-right French activist Quentin Deranque in the French city of Lyon last week by suspected radical left militants, calling the killing “a serious matter than concerns us all”.  “The killing

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani underlined Italy’s ongoing support for the war-shattered Gaza Strip’s reconstruction and its civilians during talks in Washington DC on Thursday with the High Representative of US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, Nickolay Mladenov.  “Before the

Yokohama, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Police in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, arrested an employee of a major Japanese trading company on Thursday for allegedly trespassing into a U.S. military base in violation of the Special Criminal Act under the Japan-U.S. status-of-forces agreement.

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Private-sector members of the Japanese government’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy are set to urge the government to communicate appropriately with financial markets, Jiji Press learned Thursday. In their upcoming recommendations, the private-sector members will call on