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(Adnkronos) – London Metropolitan Police have arrested two men, aged 45 and 47, in connection with the arson attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community aid service, Hatzola Northwest, in north London, near the Machzike Hadath synagogue. Commander Helen Flanagan,

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday that her government will in the future examine the possibility of dispatching the Self-Defense Forces to the Strait of Hormuz for a minesweeping mission while analyzing the situation of the time.

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Sony Honda Mobility Inc. said Wednesday that it has decided to discontinue the development and sale of its electric vehicles. The move comes as the company has become unable to utilize technologies and assets planned to be

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)–The average retail price of regular gasoline in Japan fell 13.1 yen from a week earlier to 177.7 yen per liter as of Monday, marking the first decline in six weeks, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The drop

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday asked the International Energy Agency to make preparations for additional coordinated releases of oil reserves to deal with soaring crude oil prices. Takaichi made the request to IEA Executive Director Fatih

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, at a parliamentary meeting on Wednesday, referred to U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran as “senso,” or war, but later corrected it to “sento,” or fighting, after being questioned by an opposition lawmaker. During the

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday asked the International Energy Agency to make preparations for additional coordinated releases of oil reserves to deal with soaring crude oil prices. Takaichi made the request to IEA Executive Director Fatih

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)–Anesthetics and medical narcotics used in painless child delivery do not affect babies’ health or drug concentrations in umbilical cord blood, a Japanese study has shown. For painless delivery, designed to reduce labor pain with epidural anesthetic and

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)–Sogo & Seibu Co. said Wednesday that it will close its Seibu department store in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward at the end of September. The closure comes as the company failed to reach an agreement on a contract extension

Tokyo, March 25 (Jiji Press)–The average retail price of regular gasoline in Japan fell 13.1 yen from a week earlier to 177.7 yen per liter as of Monday, the industry ministry said Wednesday. The drop came after the government resumed subsidies for