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(Adnkronos) – Iran was ready to strike three locations in Ukraine in response to what Tehran called a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian merchant ship in the Caspian Sea last week. This was stated by a senior military advisor to Supreme Leader

(Adnkronos) – A fire, caused by a drone attack, broke out at a Wildberries logistics facility in Krasny Bor, Leningrad region. According to a statement from the company’s press office, there were no casualties. “An attack on the company’s logistics center in

(Adnkronos) – “The capabilities of Iran and the resistance front are greater than in the past. Despite the threats, the enemies do not have the capacity to launch a large-scale attack against Iran.” This was stated by Ibrahim Razaei, a member of

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday revised up its full-year net profit forecast to 3.25 trillion yen from 3 trillion yen. For fiscal 2026, which ends next March, the leading Japanese automaker also upgraded its operating profit projection to

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–Cases involving artificial intelligence-generated sexual deepfakes targeting children more than doubled in number in Japan in the first half of 2026, the National Police Agency said Monday. Police handled 123 such cases in the six months, exceeding both

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–A third-party panel of Shogakukan Inc. said Monday that the Japanese publisher has encouraged human rights violations by hiring a male manga artist who had committed sexual misconduct as an author for a new series under a different

Silicon Valley, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–A U.S. federal district court in Texas has ordered two units of Kioxia Holdings Corp. to pay about 229 million dollars in damages for infringing on a patent held by U.S. satellite communications company Viasat Inc. The

Hikawa, Kumamoto Pref., Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–More than 8,000 people remain at evacuation shelters in Kumamoto Prefecture as of Tuesday, a week after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that damaged over 12,000 residential buildings in the southwestern Japan prefecture. Daytime temperatures exceed 35 degrees

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products and food items grew 10.9 pct from a year earlier to 897.7 billion yen in January-June, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. The export value marked a record high for the

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–A panel of experts at Japan’s land ministry has called on the government to establish nationwide rules to track large-scale groundwater extraction to prevent declines in groundwater levels and land subsidence, the ministry said Tuesday. Specifically, the proposal