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(Adnkronos) – 29% of Americans approve of Donald Trump’s performance as president, while 68% disapprove. This is what emerges from the latest American Research Group poll, conducted from September 16 to 20 among 1,100 adults in the United States, with a margin

(Adnkronos) – The British prosecution announced today that it has formalized the first charges against a person called to answer for their alleged role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, at the end of a complex seven-year investigation. Vincent Brown, 65, has been

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Powerful Typhoon Dujuan passed northeastward over waters north of Hachijojima in the Izu island chain south of Tokyo on Monday afternoon and approached the Boso Peninsula in the Kanto region in eastern Japan. The Izu islands and southern

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi left Tokyo’s Haneda Airport aboard a government plane late Monday for New York to attend a U.N. General Assembly session. In her first address to the General Assembly’s general debate, Takaichi plans to

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Japan won gold medals in swimming and karate at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Monday, with Shin Ohashi sharing the men’s 100-meter breaststroke title and Kakeru Nishiyama winning the men’s individual kata. Seventeen-year-old Ohashi clocked 58.64 seconds to

London, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan conducted a “rate check” with financial institutions, a move regarded as a preparatory step toward possible currency market intervention, ahead of a five-day holiday period through Wednesday in Japan, market sources said Monday. The

(Adnkronos) – Just Russia, the party of the ‘systemic opposition’, meaning the fake opposition tolerated by the Kremlin which in fact always votes as requested in the lower house of Parliament, does not exceed the five percent electoral threshold.   According to

(Adnkronos) – The outgoing State Duma ‘speaker’ Vyacheslav Volodin has been re-elected with over 92 percent of the votes for a single-mandate seat in the Saratov constituency, according to the vote count results, relating to the tabulation of just over 4 percent

(Adnkronos) – Three South Korean officers were injured in an explosion near the border with North Korea. The Seoul army announced this, specifying that the incident occurred south of the Military Demarcation Line within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), one of the most

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Former Japanese internal affairs minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is drawing attention within the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party over his next move after leaving the cabinet in a reshuffle on Thursday. Of the four candidates who ran against Prime