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AFRICA
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Rwandan minister: Roots for gender equality are planted in politics
Gender equality has long been a global issue. One country that has been promoting women’s participat...
March 30, 2022
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Ethiopia orders emergency as Tigray forces threaten capital
NAIROBI (AP) — Ethiopia’s government declared a national state of emergency Tuesday as rival Tigray ...
November 3, 2021
ASIA & PACIFIC
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Biden starts Asia trip with global issues and tech on agenda
President Joe Biden is opening his trip to Asia with a focus on the computer chip shortage that has ...
May 20, 2022
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Biden has an eye on China as he heads to South Korea, Japan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden embarked Thursday on a six-day trip to South Korea and Japan a...
May 20, 2022
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Nobel laureate: Powerful people use SNS to ‘manipulate minds’
MANILA — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa has expressed concerns over the way powerful people...
May 16, 2022
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China expected to launch its 3rd aircraft carrier soon
BEIJING — China is thought to be planning to unveil its third aircraft carrier, which is expected to...
May 14, 2022
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Japan says S.Korea wants to work on improving ties
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and South Korea have agreed that their frayed relationship can be improved, ...
May 10, 2022
EUROPE
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Ukrainian artists serve on cultural front at reopened Lviv theater
LVIV, Ukraine — Performers have returned to the stage at the Lviv National Opera, which is presentin...
May 19, 2022
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Destruction, grief continue to envelop Bucha
BUCHA, Ukraine — “If there is a hell, this is it,” said a man on Thursday as he sorted through rubbl...
May 17, 2022
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Charred car cemetery
A child rides his toy car in front of a mountain of abandoned cars in Irpin, near Kyiv. Most of the ...
May 14, 2022
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17-year-old girl from Mariupol narrowly avoids brutal interrogation
LVIV, Ukraine — Mariya Vdovichenko narrowly avoided a brutal interrogation by the Russian military a...
May 6, 2022
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Ukraine women take up arms to protect homeland
Hiroto Sekiguchi / The Yomiuri ShimbunA woman learns how to handle a rifle from a volunteer instruct...
April 24, 2022
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
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U.S. tilting toward private sector to replace aging ISS
With China emerging as a major power in space, can the International Space Station — in its remainin...
February 6, 2022
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Japan can serve as bridge between nuclear, non-nuclear powers
Minoru Terada, a special adviser to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, spoke to The Yomiuri Shimbun about...
January 22, 2022
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Top 10 International news stories of 2021
The inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden took first place among this year’s top 10 international...
December 30, 2021
LATIN AMERICA
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Overseas Japanese-language newspapers in crisis
SAO PAULO — The Nikkey Shimbun published its final issue this month, bringing an end to the last Jap...
December 29, 2021
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Five years after Colombia’s deal with FARC rebels, stable peace remains elusive
BOGOTA — A deal to end a half century of armed conflict in Colombia between the government and the c...
December 7, 2021
MIDDLE EAST
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Expo 2020 Dubai closes; Japan Pavilion awarded gold
DUBAI — Expo 2020 Dubai closed Thursday in the United Arab Emirates, having attracted about 23 milli...
April 1, 2022
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NGO starts emergency food aid to drought-stricken Afghanistan
Peshawar-kai, a Japanese nongovernmental organization that provides medical and agricultural assista...
January 30, 2022
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Arab nations move against Uighurs for sake of China ties
CAIRO — Members of the Uighur ethnic minority who fled to the Middle East to escape Chinese governme...
January 20, 2022
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Israeli FM Lapid: Military threat against Iran’s nuclear ambitions must be option
JERUSALEM — Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid recently indicated that for the sake of national sec...
January 3, 2022
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Afghan antiques dealer steps up to open pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai
DUBAI — The collapse of the Afghan government in August appeared to spell the end for the Afghanista...
January 3, 2022
RUSSIA
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Ukrainians remember WWII victims on May 8
LVIV, Ukraine — Memorial ceremonies were held Sunday across war-torn Ukraine for victims of World Wa...
May 9, 2022
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Azov commander vows to fight on in Mariupol
WARSAW — The commander of a militia unit resisting Russian forces in the besieged Ukrainian city of ...
April 29, 2022
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Mariupol civilians caught in ‘bad dream’
Dead bodies have lain on the streets for more than a month and infrastructure has collapsed in the s...
April 22, 2022
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West steps up supply of larger weapons to Ukraine
LONDON — The United States and European nations have expanded their military assistance to Ukraine,...
April 22, 2022
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6 Russian ships pass Tsushima Strait on way to Sea of Japan
The Defense Ministry announced Wednesday that six Russian ships, including a destroyer and naval sup...
April 21, 2022
US & CANADA
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U.S. set to remove 5 groups, including Aum Shinrikyo, from foreign terrorism blacklist
BERLIN (AP) — The United States is poised to remove five extremist groups, all believed to be defunc...
May 16, 2022
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Biden names Transportation Department HQ after Mineta
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill Friday to name the Transportation Department hea...
May 8, 2022
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U.S. ambassador praises ‘world-class’ rail system of Japan
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel took a train Thursday to visit Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, ...
February 17, 2022
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Biden may visit Japan in latter half of May
The Japanese and U.S. governments have begun making arrangements for Joe Biden’s first visit to Japa...
February 1, 2022
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New U.S. ambassador: Alliance with Japan ‘a beacon of endless possibility and promise’
New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel stressed the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance as “a b...
January 25, 2022
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