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Tokyo, May 27 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average staged a rebound to briefly top 66,000 for the first time on Wednesday morning, buoyed by overnight gains in U.S. technology stocks. At 9:06 a.m., the index of 225 selected issues listed

Naha, Okinawa Pref., May 27 (Jiji Press)–Two Chinese coast guard ships that had entered Japanese waters off the Senkaku Islands in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa on Monday left the area on the following day. According to the Japan Coast Guard’s

(Adnkronos) – Italy earmarks approximately 10 billion euros annually to for overseas development cooperation and ranks eighth in the world in terms of international aid for populations suffering hunger, disease, war and poverty, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday.  “This is

Tokyo, May 26 (Jiji Press)–The Chinese navy aircraft carrier Liaoning has conducted landing and takeoff drills for fighter jets and helicopters in Pacific waters off a remote Tokyo island, the Japanese Defense Ministry’s Joint Staff said Tuesday. A destroyer from the Japanese

(Adnkronos) – Overseas development aid delivered through equitable partnerships and technology transfer burnishes Italy’s image in the world, foreign minister Antonio Tajani told a conference in Rome on Friday.  “Development aid represents Italy’s image in the world. We do not have a

Tokyo, May 26 (Jiji Press)–Naumann’s elephant in the Japanese archipelago went extinct about 10,000 years earlier than previously believed, with climate change highly likely playing a significant role, a Japanese research team has said. The findings by the team were published in

(Adnkronos) – To address the higher number of casualties at the front in Ukraine compared to new recruits, and thus to increase the number of those willing to enlist without resorting to mobilization, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a

(Adnkronos) – The Swedish government will halve the price of monthly public transport passes for six months, in order to mitigate the effects of rising energy costs caused by the war in the Middle East. The announcement by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s

(Adnkronos) – New tensions in Turkey. Protests and police intervention with water cannons in Izmir, the country’s third-largest city. At the origin of the protests is the decision by a court to remove the leaders of the CHP, the Republican People’s Party,

(Adnkronos) – Moscow’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Czech Republic’s chargé d’affaires, Jan Ondrejka, the day after the arrest, by Prague authorities, of Metropolitan Hilarion, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, on charges of drug possession. Moscow’s Foreign Ministry expressed a “strong