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(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani, and South Korea’s president Lee Jae-Myung were late on Friday due to open a bilateral High-Level Economic Forum in Rome. South Korean trade, industry and resources minister Kim Jung-kwan will also speak at the event which

(Adnkronos) – Former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Seoul court for authorizing the sending of drones to North Korea with the aim of provoking an escalation of military tensions and creating the

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Friday, meeting with leaders of the Southeast Asian nation. He held talks with Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto and Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin. They are believed to

(Adnkronos) – The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated, in an interview with the BBC, that “I have no intention of abandoning my position” as premier. Regarding the Labour Party, he added that “I don’t think we should throw the country into

(Adnkronos) – A gigantic 8647 appearing on the lawns of the National Mall in Washington has alarmed federal authorities two days before the anticipated celebrations on Sunday at the White House for Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. The sequence of numbers imprinted on

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Friday welcomed the entry into force of accelerated European Union rules on how member states handle migrants and asylum-seekers, which allow applicants to be kept at the bloc’s borders while their cases are processed and

Sapporo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Financial Services Agency on Friday ordered a “shinyo kumiai” credit association, or shinkumi bank, for Korean residents to suspend part of its operations after its management team was found to have covered up an executive’s embezzlements of

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–A multifunctional robot designed to help with automated cultivation of Shine Muscat grapes, a luxury variety, was demonstrated at an experimental fruit farm in the city of Yamanashi in the namesake prefecture in central Japan on Friday. The

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government adopted an intellectual property promotion program on Friday, including a plan to draw up rules to protect intellectual property rights amid the rapid spread of generative artificial intelligence. At a meeting of the Intellectual Property

Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s “furusato nozei” hometown donation program offering tax incentives resulted in aggregate net losses for local governments nationwide in most of the eight years from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2024, a Board of Audit of Japan survey showed