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Looming Israeli strike on Iran offers fresh test of U.S. sway

[ad_1] U.S. President Joe Biden has warned Israel against attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, and U.S. officials worry a strike on its energy infrastructure could roil energy markets.But with Israeli retaliation against Iran expected at any time, the U.S. is finding it has few assurances against further escalation.Biden’s team is pressing Israel to limit its retaliation against Iran for a strike last week to military targets such as air bases and missile sites. [ad_2] Source link

todayOctober 10, 2024

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Absence of Cameroon’s president fuels speculation about his health

[ad_1] AFPSpeculation over the wellbeing and whereabouts of Cameroon’s 91-year-old President Paul Biya has become a hot topic across Africa this week.After attending the China-Africa summit in Beijing in early September, it was perhaps no surprise that he gave the UN General Assembly in New York a miss. But when he stayed away from this week’s summit of French-speaking countries (La Francophonie) at Viller Cotterêts, north of Paris, the rumour mill went into overdrive, as he had not been seen […]

todayOctober 10, 2024

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‘The Young Strangers’: A tough watch but thrillingly alive

[ad_1] With “The Young Strangers,” Takuya Uchiyama has made both one of the bleakest and most bracing films to come out of Japan this year. The 32-year-old’s commercial debut confirms the promise shown by his 2020 indie sleeper hit, “Sasaki in My Mind.” It’s an audacious and emotionally wrenching film. While its displays of virtuoso technique might sometimes distract from the story it’s telling, the cumulative effect left me breathless.Based on Uchiyama’s original script, this is a tale of two […]

todayOctober 10, 2024

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Hurricane Milton Bears Down on Florida’s Tampa Area With House-Toppling Winds

[ad_1] Hurricane Milton is closing in on Florida’s west coast, packing torrential rainfall and a destructive storm surge that could inundate some of the state’s fastest-growing counties.Milton was 50 miles (80 kilometers) west-southwest of Sarasota at 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to an update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Vertical wind shear over the Gulf of Mexico has knocked back Milton’s top winds to 120 mph (193 kph), leaving it a tree-snapping Category 3 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.Heavy […]

todayOctober 10, 2024

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Spain looks to immigrants to drive economy

[ad_1] BBCAsylum seekers such as these can find work in Spain six months after they have arrivedA group of Sub-Saharan African men are playing bingo in a conference room of a hotel near the northern Spanish city of León.They laugh and celebrate when their numbers are called out, but many of these asylum seekers have harrowing stories.Among them is Michael, who fled Ghana to escape a violent feud that saw his sister and father killed. After travelling by land to […]

todayOctober 10, 2024

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Japan’s new volleyball league has big dreams as it gets set to launch

[ad_1] A new Japanese professional volleyball league, which begins its inaugural season on Friday, will take on the challenges to come while holding big dreams and aspirations, its chairman, Masaaki Okawa, said in a recent interview.The SV. League replaces the V. League as Japan's top volleyball league, following a reform initiative that Okawa has been involved in since autumn 2022.Okawa is a leading figure in the country's sports business world, having been involved in the introduction of the club licensing […]

todayOctober 10, 2024

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Hokkaido boat operator’s president charged over fatal 2022 sinking

[ad_1] Kushiro, Hokkaido – Public prosecutors indicted the president of a tour boat operator on Wednesday over a fatal sinking incident off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in April 2022. The Kushiro District Public Prosecutor's Office charged Seiichi Katsurada, 61, head of Shiretoko Yuransen, based in the Hokkaido town of Shari, with professional negligence resulting in death. Katsurada has denied the charges, according to investigators. The Japan Coast Guard arrested him last month over the loss of all 26 people […]

todayOctober 10, 2024

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Japan pushes fossil fuel tech in Asia carbon neutrality initiative

[ad_1] A third of the 158 agreements signed under the Japan-led Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) are linked to fossil fuel technologies, according to a report recently published by an international climate and energy research group. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will chair an AZEC summit set to take place in Laos on Thursday on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. The 11 AZEC partner countries are aiming to agree on a 10-year action plan for achieving […]

todayOctober 10, 2024

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South Korea’s Yoon renews unification call in challenge to Kim

[ad_1] South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called again for unification of the Korean Peninsula to free it from nuclear threats in a renewed challenge to Pyongyang’s moves to rule out the possibility of rapprochement."A unified Korean Peninsula that is free and open will also create a strong impetus for economic development and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific," Yoon said Wednesday in a speech in Singapore. "Across the energy, logistics, transportation, infrastructure and tourism sectors, the demand for vigorous investment and cooperation […]

todayOctober 10, 2024

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