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(Adnkronos) – There has been “no diplomatic incident” between Italy and Switzerland over the release on bail of Jacques Moretti, owner of a bar in the Crans Montana ski resort, where a fire killed 40 people and injured over 100, foreign minister

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Japan is eyeing artificial diamond production as the first project under its 550-billion-dollar package of loans and investments that will be made in the United States, it was learned Thursday. A power transmission and distribution project is also

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. will reconsider the start date for the commercial operation of the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, the plant’s head, Takeyuki Inagaki, said Thursday. In the

(Adnkronos) – The European Union is likely to put Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (Pasdaran) on its list of terrorist organisations over the elite force’s recent deadly crackdown on nationwide anti-government protests – in a move spearheaded by Italy – foreign minister Antonio

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo police have arrested a 61-year-old man for allegedly registering a fake address to rent an internet server, with the suspect also believed to be involved in a blog suggesting child prostitution in Laos, it was learned Thursday.

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is suspected of concealing the Unification Church’s purchases of tickets for her fundraising parties, a weekly magazine reported Thursday. Organizations and people linked to the Unification Church are believed to have bought a

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–It is difficult for Japan to give up Russian liquefied natural gas, despite stepped-up sanctions by the United States and Europe, Japan Gas Association leader Takashi Uchida has said. Securing alternative suppliers will not be easy since Russian

Nagoya, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Sri Lankan detainee Wishma Sandamali’s life could have been saved at three different times before she died at an immigration facility in Japan in 2021, a doctor said in a court hearing on Wednesday. Wishma’s death at the

Narita, Chiba Pref., Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–The number of foreign passengers on international flights to and from Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, rose 3 pct from a year earlier to 2,108,313 in December, hitting a record high for

Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)–Some services at 140 “shinyo kumiai” credit cooperatives across Japan, including remittances, became temporarily unavailable Thursday due to a system failure, their central banking body said. The services came back to normal after being restored in stages from