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(Adnkronos) – New public execution in Taliban Afghanistan. According to the Supreme Court, the death sentence of a man convicted of murder was carried out in front of a crowd gathered in a sports stadium in Khost, in the east of the

Taipei, Dec. 2 (Jiji Press)–Taiwan prosecutors on Tuesday indicted Tokyo Electron Ltd.’s Taiwanese subsidiary for violating Taiwan’s security and other relevant laws, following the indictment in August of a former employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The

Tokyo, Dec. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Tuesday visited the Air Self-Defense Force’s Fuchu base to mainly inspect the Space Operations Group, which monitors space activities. During the visit to the base in the suburbs of Tokyo, Koizumi received

(Adnkronos) – Foreign minister Antonio Tajani is chairing the fifth ‘Working Roundtable on the Evolution of the Situation of Italian Companies in Russia’, which aims to help Italy’s business sector in the country, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. 

Nara, Dec. 2 (Jiji Press)–Tetsuya Yamagami, who is standing trial for murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022, testified in court on Tuesday that he believed Abe was at the center of the relationship between politics and the Unification Church, explaining

Fukushima, Dec. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday inspected Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. Takaichi visited the northeastern prefecture for the first time since taking office in October.

(Adnkronos) – Italy on Tuesday urged the European Union to forge ahead with its mammoth trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur, which it should be possible to sign “within a few months” once safeguard and quality control measures are approved to

Tokyo, Dec. 2 (Jiji Press)–Major Japanese chemical makers Teijin Ltd. and Asahi Kasei Corp. said Tuesday that they will integrate their respective textile trading subsidiaries in 2026. Under the integration plan, Teijin Frontier Co., based in the western Japanese city of Osaka,

(Adnkronos) – Italy can hit a 700 billion euro export target by 2027 thanks to a plan with a strong focus on non-European Union countries, which the government launched before the US election, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday.  “Before the

Tokyo, Dec. 2 (Jiji Press)–Private-sector economists forecast that the Japanese government will revise down its gross domestic product data for July-September. The revised data, scheduled for release next Monday, is expected to show that the country’s real GDP fell 0.5 pct from