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(Adnkronos) – Italian and Chinese companies will be encouraged to team up on joint film projects under an accord that also aims to foster cultural exchange and grow the national film industry after the cabinet approved a bill ratifying and implementing the

Osaka, March 11 (Jiji Press)–A large underground pipe rose about 13 meters from the ground at a construction site in the western Japan city of Osaka on Wednesday. At around 6:50 a.m., police received a call about the pipe protruding from the

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday that the government will release its oil reserves as early as Monday amid soaring crude oil prices. Takaichi also said that the government will keep retail gasoline prices around 170 yen

(Adnkronos) – The United Nations World Food Programme has appealed for fresh funds to keep helping 700,000 people forced to flee their homes since Israel began bombing the south of the country in retaliation for drone and missile attacks against the Jewish

Tokyo, March 11 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese government-chartered flight carrying South Korean nationals, along with Japanese evacuees from the Middle East, arrived at Narita International Airport near Tokyo on Wednesday. This marked the first application of a memorandum of understanding, signed by the

Natori, Miyagi Pref., March 11 (Jiji Press)–People in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures observed a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. Wednesday, the exact time when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of the northeastern Japan region 15 years ago,

(Adnkronos) – ”There is no evidence, for the moment,” that the fire on the regular bus in Kerzers, Switzerland, which caused the death of at least six people and the injury of five others, was a terrorist attack. This was stated by

(Adnkronos) – Offices and assets of major American technology companies with operations in the region are among the targets Iran intends to strike. This is stated in the list of Tehran’s potential targets published by the state news agency Tasnim. The title

(Adnkronos) – One of the Iranian female footballers who had sought asylum in Australia had a change of heart, revealed to the Tehran embassy where her teammates were hidden, and forced the Canberra government to find them another safe place. This was

(Adnkronos) – Many people have lost their lives in Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after the city controlled by the Rwandan-backed M23 militia was targeted in air attacks that occurred overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday. Local