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(Adnkronos) – “With a meaningless vote, yesterday the House voted, four bad Republicans and all Democrats, to limit my war powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the war with Iran.” Donald Trump wrote this on Truth Social,

(Adnkronos) – For the first time since the start of the conflict with Iran over three months ago, a resolution aimed at preventing Donald Trump from ordering new raids without congressional authorization has been approved in Congress. After several failed attempts in

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday called on Hezbollah to comply with a US-brokered accord between Lebanon and Israel to renew their fragile ceasefire announced in a joint statement which said the deal was”contingent on complete cessation” of attacks

Tokyo, June 4 (Jiji Press)–PayPay Corp., a smartphone payment firm under SoftBank Group Corp., said Thursday that it will enter the life insurance business by acquiring T&D Financial Life Insurance Co. PayPay will acquire a 70.2 pct stake in the T&D Holdings

Tokyo, June 4 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is planning to make her first visit to India as early as July to meet with her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, it was learned Thursday. Through the visit, which would be part of

Tokyo, June 4 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government’s new growth strategy, due to be adopted this summer, will feature a plan to promote overseas investment by the country’s public and private sectors, Jiji Press learned Thursday. The government will position foreign direct investment

Tokyo, June 4 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is considering cutting 45 proportional representation seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament, a senior LDP official said Thursday. At a meeting of the LDP’s

Kawasaki, Kanagawa Pref., June 4 (Jiji Press)–Sakie Yokota, mother of a Japanese abductee to North Korea, has called for the early return of her daughter in an interview ahead of the sixth anniversary of her husband’s death on Friday. “I talk to

Tokyo, June 4 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government will set a new target of more than halving potential damage from a possible major earthquake directly beneath Tokyo, it was learned Thursday. According to a draft of its revised basic plan for emergency countermeasures,

Tokyo, June 4 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government’s fiscal 2026 supplementary budget bill cleared the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Thursday and the full Lower House later in the day. The lower chamber of the Diet approved the extra budget bill by