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Asia-PacificIndonesians pay heavy price amid cooking oil crisis
JAKARTA (AFP-Jiji) — About three weeks after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, Indonesian homemaker Li...
July 7, 2022
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General News4 years on, victims of rain disaster mourned
OKAYAMA / HIROSHIMA (Jiji Press) — Ceremonies were held in western Japan on Wednesday to mourn the v...
July 7, 2022
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ArtThe beauty of details: 79-year-old artist cuts out images from flyers to create large collages
Cutting images out of newspaper flyers and mail-order catalogs and pasting these small pieces of pap...
July 7, 2022
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Associated PressBritain’s Boris Johnson battles to stay as PM amid revolt
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson battled to remain in office Wednesday, brushing o...
July 7, 2022
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CompaniesGovt to examine KDDI’s handling of 86-hour network outage
The government plans to examine KDDI Corp.’s handling of the 86-hour network disruption that affecte...
July 7, 2022
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Politics & GovernmentDecision on tourism campaign delayed amid rise in coronavirus cases
The government will decide the start date of a nationwide campaign to boost tourism after the House ...
July 7, 2022
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Outside ContributorsAmid ongoing Ukraine sanctions, Putin will have to choose either butter or guns
The United States, Europe, Japan and other countries are continuing to impose economic sanctions on ...
July 6, 2022
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ScienceMiners find rare mummified baby woolly mammoth
OTTAWA (AFP-Jiji) — Miners in the Klondike gold fields of Canada’s far north have made a rare discov...
July 6, 2022
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ScienceMeet ‘zombie star’ that survived supernova, emerged brighter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only ...
July 6, 2022
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ScienceBeachgoers become guardians of fossils
SANTIAGO (Reuters) — While strolling along Los Tubos beach on the central Chilean coast, a group of ...
July 6, 2022
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ScienceResearchers unveil 340-year-old shipwreck
LONDON (Reuters) — A royal warship that sank off the east coast of Britain more than 300 years ago w...
July 6, 2022
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ScienceBulldogs bear twice the health risk
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — English bulldogs are twice as likely to be afflicted with common health problems ...
July 6, 2022
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EU proposes ban on flavored heated tobacco products
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Commission proposed on June 29 to ban the sale in the EU of flavor...
July 6, 2022
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ScienceChinese spacecraft acquires images of entire planet of Mars
BEIJING (Reuters) — An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft has acquired imagery data covering all of Mars, i...
July 6, 2022
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Washington PostPeter Brook, towering theater director, dies at 97
Peter Brook, a visionary English theater director who staged groundbreaking productions on both side...
July 6, 2022