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MarketsJapan’s Nikkei hits near 2-week high on Wall Street’s strong finish
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan’s Nikkei jumped on Tuesday to its highest in nearly two weeks, after Wall S...
October 4, 2022
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ArtTokyo kids paint huge mural to thwart graffiti
Children on Sunday painted a large mural on an about 100-meter-wide wall in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, in ...
October 4, 2022
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General NewsField day: Chestnut harvest reaches peak in Ibaraki Pref.
MITO — A farmer collects chestnuts in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Kasama, which boasts the larges...
October 4, 2022
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Associated PressWall Street soars to best day since summer, S&P 500 up 2.6％
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street soared to its best day in months Monday in a widespread relief rally aft...
October 4, 2022
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Associated PressOfficials: US to send Ukraine more advanced rocket systems
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will soon deliver to Ukraine four more of the advanced rocket systems cre...
October 4, 2022
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Associated PressUkraine claws back more territory Russia is trying to absorb
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces scored more gains in their counteroffensive across at least tw...
October 4, 2022
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Associated PressNobel win for Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA
LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for di...
October 4, 2022
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Associated PressIndonesia police chief, others removed over soccer disaste
MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian police chief and nine elite officers were removed from their ...
October 4, 2022
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Associated PressRussia smuggling Ukrainian grain to help pay for Putin’s war
BEIRUT (AP) — When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked in Lebanon last summer, Ukrainian diplomats s...
October 4, 2022
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Defense & SecurityN. Korea sends missile soaring over Japan in escalation
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over ...
October 4, 2022
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Defense & SecurityNorth Korea fires missile to Pacific Ocean
TOKYO (Jiji Press)—North Korea is seen to have launched a missile to the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday mo...
October 4, 2022
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Outside ContributorsChina’s Hong Kong vision a test for world freedoms
When I was growing up in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong’s movies and pop music were ver...
October 4, 2022
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Olympics & ParalympicsTokyo Deaflympics raises hopes for inclusive society, better support for deaf athletes
The Summer Deaflympics, an international sporting event for the hearing impaired, will be held in To...
October 4, 2022
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Asia-PacificTaiwan cautions Beijing over semiconductor exports
Taiwan’s Economic Affairs Minister Wang Mei-hua has warned China against putting military pressure o...
October 4, 2022
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Associated PressSwallows’ Murakami hits 56th homer, breaks Oh’s record
TOKYO (AP) — In a season of home run milestones in American baseball by Albert Pujols and Aaron Judg...
October 3, 2022