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Los Angeles, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japanese jazz composer Miho Hazama has been nominated for the 68th Grammy Award in the Best Instrumental Composition category for her piece, “Live Life This Day: Movement I,” according to the full list of nominations released on

Paris, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Louis Schweitzer, former chairman of French auto giant Renault SA, who worked to forge its alliance with Japan’s Nissan Motor Co., has died at the age of 83, according to French media reports. Schweitzer was born in Geneva,

(Adnkronos) – Dozens of people are accused of “treason” in Tanzania in connection with their alleged participation in protests triggered by the general elections on October 29. This is according to judicial sources cited by the AFP agency, which states that more

(Adnkronos) – France urges its nationals to leave Mali. “For several weeks, the security situation in Mali, including Bamako, has been deteriorating,” reads the update published on the French Foreign Ministry’s website, with the recommendation “to French citizens to plan a temporary

(Adnkronos) – Dozens were injured in an explosion that occurred during Friday prayers in a mosque within a high school complex in Jakarta. Fifty-four people were transported to the hospital, said the head of the Indonesian capital’s police, Asep Edi Suheri, at

(Adnkronos) – Federal judge John McConnell has ordered the Trump administration to fully restore the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food subsidies, the so-called ‘food stamps’, which help 42 million low-income Americans, starting today. “People have been doing without for too long, not

(Adnkronos) – The Senate is voting again today to end the shutdown, which has reached its 38th day, but Democrats do not seem willing to accept the offer from Republican leader John Thune, who has combined the stopgap, the bridge measure to

(Adnkronos) – The decision to remove the Ukrainian flag from the Parliament building, made by the new ‘speaker’, far-right exponent Tomio Okamura, has sparked considerable controversy in the Czech Republic. Founder of the Freedom and Direct Democracy (Spd) party, and critical of

(Adnkronos) – The United States refused to participate in the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council, becoming the second country – after Israel – to boycott the process of evaluating its performance. In Geneva, the seats of the

(Adnkronos) – Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella on Friday called for humanitarian aid for Gaza and the rebuilding of the war-shattered coastal enclave with international efforts involving Arab states and a two-state solution to the long-running conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.  “We