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(Adnkronos) – The election campaign for next April’s legislative elections in Hungary effectively kicks off today, with opposing street demonstrations in Budapest. On the anniversary of the beginning of the brief 1956 uprising against the Soviet Union, crushed by the bloody intervention

(Adnkronos) – A group of Palestinian scholarship students and Palestinian family members from the Gaza Strip are due to arrive late Thursday at Rome’s Ciampino airport from Jordan aboard two Italian planes, according to a foreign ministry statement.  “Transport from Jordan will

(Adnkronos) – With the European Union set to agree in principle on Thursday to make a 140 billion euro loan to Ukraine using Russian frozen assets, Italy urged the bloc to carefully check the legal validity of the plan before proceeding.  “Before

Tokyo, Oct. 23 (Jiji Press)–New Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday met with the families of Japanese citizens abducted to North Korea decades ago and vowed to seek support from U.S. President Donald Trump to resolve the abduction issue. Takaichi, who

Tokyo, Oct. 23 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will attend summits related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Malaysia and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in South Korea, both set to begin later this month, Chief Cabinet Secretary

Tokyo, Oct. 23 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, said Thursday it plans to demand pay increases of 5 pct or more in “shunto” annual spring wage negotiations for the third straight year next year. The umbrella body for labor

Tokyo, Oct. 23 (Jiji Press)–The Shipbuilders’ Association of Japan said Thursday that it plans to invest 350 billion yen in capital expenditures in a bid to double ship building output by 2035. The association, comprising 17 Japanese shipbuilders, also aims to prepare

Naha, Okinawa Pref., Oct. 23 (Jiji Press)–U.S. military police will conduct a patrol in Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, in the early hours of Nov. 1, in an effort to prevent a recurrence of sexual assault cases involving U.S. military personnel

Sapporo, Oct. 23 (Jiji Press)–Police searched locations linked to a now-closed zoo in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Thursday over allegations of unauthorized land development. The North Safari Sapporo, operated by Success-Kanko Corp., opened in July 2005. The zoo

Tokyo, Oct. 23 (Jiji Press)–Supermarket sales across Japan in April-September rose 1.6 pct from a year earlier on an all-store basis, the first increase in two years for the first half of a fiscal year, the Japan Chain Stores Association said Thursday.