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Washington PostThe battle that will determine the future of American passenger rail
Months after Washington approved billions to significantly expand Amtrak’s footprint across the coun...
July 7, 2022
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Yomiuri EditorialDisregard for domestic laws, regulations cannot be tolerated
If companies are making huge profits in the Japanese market, it makes sense that even foreign compan...
July 7, 2022
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Asia-Pacific
Karachi ranks near bottom on list of world’s livable cities
Pakistan’s financial capital, Karachi, has been ranked among the world’s most unlivable cities, acco...
July 7, 2022
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Yomiuri Editorial
Japan must strongly protest Russia’s threats to ‘seize’ joint project
Russia’s unilateral actions to threaten Japan’s energy security can never be tolerated. Russian Pr...
July 7, 2022
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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