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(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

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Vice foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea on Friday agreed that they will communicate repeatedly to develop their countries’ future-oriented relationship in a stable way, in line with last week’s summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Sanae

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Honda Motor Co. on Friday lowered its full-year consolidated net profit forecast for the fiscal year ending in March 2026 to 300 billion yen from the previous projection of 420 billion yen. The impact of high tariff measures

Tokyo, Nov. 7 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday apologized after the Supreme Court ruled the government reductions of welfare benefits to be unlawful. At a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting, Takaichi said, “I’d like to deeply reflect (on

(Adnkronos) – “Great friendship” binds Italy and the Palestine, and the Palestinian Authority is still a key interlocutor, also on the international stage, president Sergio Mattarella told PA president Mahmoud Abbas during talks at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on Friday.  “It