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(Adnkronos) – The dramatic double earthquake that struck Venezuela on June 24 continues to worsen, approaching five thousand deaths.   According to the president of the Venezuelan Parliament, the confirmed victims have risen to 4,930. 

Tokyo, July 17 (Jiji Press)–Japanese frozen food maker Nichirei Corp. said Friday that it is preparing to fully resume operations as early as next week following a cyberattack earlier this week. The company on Friday partially restarted operations at refrigerated warehouses and

New York/Silicon Valley, July 16 (Jiji Press)–A jury at a U.S. federal district court in Texas on Thursday ruled that companies under Japanese semiconductor memory maker Kioxia Holdings Corp. violated patent claims by U.S. satellite communications company Viasat Inc. The jury awarded

Tokyo, July 17 (Jiji Press)–Prices of newly harvested rice in Japan are increasingly likely to fall this year after rising for two straight years. This month, the Kagoshima Prefectural Economic Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives notified local agricultural cooperatives of suggested purchase prices

Osaka, July 17 (Jiji Press)–Twenty-three people, mainly students, were injured after an unknown substance was sprayed at a municipal junior high school in the city of Kaizuka, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Friday morning. According to the city’s board of education, 15

Tokyo, July 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s parliament Friday passed into law a bill designed to prevent the birth of genetically edited “designer babies” whose appearance and other characteristics would be altered according to their parents’ preferences. The law prohibits the implantation of genome-edited

Tokyo, July 17 (Jiji Press)–Seven & i Holdings Co. is considering spending several hundred billion yen to acquire a stake in Zabka Group SA, Poland’s largest convenience store operator, people familiar with the matter said Friday. Through the investment, the Japanese convenience

Tokyo, July 17 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s key Nikkei 225 stock average on Friday marked the fifth-biggest one-day point loss on record, hurt by heavy selling of semiconductor- and artificial intelligence-related issues. The index of 225 major issues listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s

Tokyo, July 17 (Jiji Press)–The Diet, Japan’s parliament, enacted a bill Friday to revise the Imperial House Law as part of efforts to secure a sufficient number of Imperial Family members, marking the first substantive change to the law since its establishment

Tokyo, July 17 (Jiji Press)–The use of biomass plastic, derived from renewable resources such as plants, to make garbage bags is spreading in Japan in response to supply disruptions of naphtha due to the Middle East conflict. The “naphtha shock” exposed the