By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese manga comic creator Akira Toriyama, best known for his “Dragon Ball” series that spawned widely popular films, video games and TV shows, died on March 1 from a blood clot in his brain, his production studio said on Friday. He was 68. “It’s our deep regret that he still …
(Reuters) -Senior Ukrainian officials, in a meeting with a Chinese regional envoy on Thursday, pressed Kyiv’s plan to end the two-year conflict with Russia and presented what they said was evidence of North Korean weaponry supplied to Moscow. Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, wrote on Telegram that he and his team presented the …
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By Anton Bridge and Irene Wang TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike knows how important networking and mentorship are to building a career, so she’s making sure her administration offers women these opportunities. Koike is one of the very few women who hold senior government posts in Japan, where society remains male dominated and …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s border closings and other anti-pandemic measures were “overbroad, excessive, and unnecessary” and severely affected food security and the availability of essential products, U.S.-based rights activists said in a new report. As the pandemic gripped the world in 2020, Kim Jong Un’s regime embarked on a massive exercise to seal its …
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By Anisha Sircar (Reuters) – China’s 5% economic growth target for 2024 announced this week is ambitious and can be achieved if backed by further stimulus measures in monetary, fiscal and regulatory policy, analysts said. “Further stimulus measures will (need to) be announced … to achieve the targets set out,” Bill Maldonado, the head of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Secretary of State Antony Blinken has agreed to provide a congressional committee with documents it sought about the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to the panel chairman who had threatened to hold Blinken in contempt. The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday postponed a meeting where it had been due to consider …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s main opposition Congress party said on Thursday it would guarantee paid apprenticeships to every graduate under 25 if it wins the upcoming election, as it tries to tap into voter concerns over high unemployment, even among the well educated. Opinion polls predict another big defeat for the party that has …
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By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -The Hong Kong government will send the “Article 23” national security bill to the legislature on Friday, possibly cracking down further on dissent in the former British colony, with city leader John Lee calling for it to be passed “at full speed”. The move to enact …
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By Chen Aizhu and Florence Tan SINGAPORE/MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian tanker Liteyny Prospect, hit by sanctions, has docked at the Chinese port of Huanghua to discharge its 700,000-barrel Russian Sokol crude cargo, two sources familiar with the matter said, clearing part of a backlog of cargoes disrupted by sanctions on Moscow’s oil trade. The tanker …
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(Reuters) – The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) has paid around two billion yen ($13 million) in additional taxes to the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau, JOC board member Takahiro Kitano said, after authorities found improper accounting between 2018 and 2022. The national sports body believed its accounting was properly maintained and audited but Kitano said it …
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