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(Adnkronos) – Russian raids have caused the death of eight people and the injury of 57 others across Ukraine in the last 24 hours. One of the attacks occurred in the Odesa region, where Moscow’s forces struck an oil tanker truck. The

(Adnkronos) – British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will chair an emergency meeting of the Cobra committee to address the extreme heatwave affecting the United Kingdom, which is grappling with widespread fires and drought. According to The Guardian, temperatures could reach 33 degrees

Sydney, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had no ill intent when he made a remark regarding a gift from his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi that has been criticized as sexist, the Australian government told the Japanese government. Sources at

Ueno, Gunma Pref., Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Victims of the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet were remembered at the mountainous accident site in eastern Japan on Wednesday, the 41st anniversary of the tragedy. From early in the morning, bereaved family

Seoul, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–South Korea’s Supreme Court on Wednesday finalized a lower court ruling ordering Japan’s Nippon Steel Corp. to pay 80 million won, or about 9 million yen, in damages to the bereaved family of a South Korean wartime laborer.

(Adnkronos) – Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi, during his visit to Tehran, conveyed a special message to the Iranian leadership from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, regarding the regional situation. Al-Arabiya reports this,

Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–The head of the Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery and Manufacturing Workers, or JAM, has urged the Centrist Reform Alliance, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito to draw up a clear vision on how to rise

Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is expected to skip a visit to Tokyo’s war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday, the anniversary of the country’s surrender in World War II, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. She is apparently

Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–All Nippon Airways said Wednesday that it will lower fuel surcharges, added to airfares, for flights from Japan to North America and Europe by 10,000 yen to 55,000 yen for tickets to be issued in September and October.

Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Aeon Co. on Wednesday showed a plan to provide compensation early to relatives of tenant shop workers who died in an explosion that occurred at its shopping facility in Kumamoto Prefecture shortly after the July 28 major earthquake