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(Adnkronos) – Thousands have demonstrated in Syria, in the Alawite-majority coastal area, after recent attacks against the community. According to AFP correspondents, these are the most significant protests ever recorded in the Alawite-majority region since the end of the Assad era last

Tokyo, Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for sufficient wage increases to counter rising prices, at a government-labor-management panel meeting on Tuesday. This was the first meeting of the three-way panel under the Takaichi administration. The panel brings together

Maebashi, Gunma Pref., Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)–Mayor Akira Ogawa of the city of Maebashi, the capital of Gunma Prefecture in eastern Japan, plans to step down following a scandal involving her “love hotel” visits with a married male city employee, it was

Tokyo, Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)–A second person has died in Monday’s hit-and-run incident involving a stolen car in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward, it was learned Tuesday. According to the Japanese capital’s Metropolitan Police Department, Gladys Grace Rotaquio Testado, a 28-year-old company worker of

Tokyo/Beijing, Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government indicated Tuesday that it will not change its conventional position regarding a so-called existential crisis situation under Japan’s national security legislation, following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent remark on a possible contingency around Taiwan. The

Tokyo, Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)–A powerful earthquake hit southwestern Japan on Tuesday, measuring up to upper 5, the fourth-highest level on the country’s 10-point seismic intensity scale, in Kumamoto Prefecture. The temblor with an estimated magnitude of 5.8 occurred at a depth

Nara, Nov. 25 (Jiji Press)–Tetsuya Yamagami, on trial for the 2022 murder of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said in court Tuesday that he felt despair and a sense of crisis over Abe’s video message in 2021 to a group affiliated

(Adnkronos) – In Australia, the far-right senator Pauline Hanson, who entered the chamber yesterday wearing a burqa, has been sanctioned. Seven days of suspension, local media report, for the leader of the One Nation party, who is not Muslim and advocates for

(Adnkronos) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today appealed to the Nigerian authorities, urging them “to take all necessary legal measures” to end mass kidnappings in the country. “We urge the Nigerian authorities at all levels to take all

(Adnkronos) – The Moldovan government reported that six drones entered its airspace today during Russian attacks against Ukraine. The first drone to violate Moldova’s airspace was detected near Vulcanesti, close to the borders with Ukraine and Romania, as explained by Chisinau authorities.