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[ad_1] Seoul – South Korea's military said Monday it was "fully ready" to respond after North Korea ordered troops on the border to prepare to fire, in an escalating dispute over drone flights to Pyongyang.The nuclear-armed North has accused Seoul of flying drones over its capital to drop propaganda leaflets filled with "inflammatory rumors and rubbish," and warned Sunday that if another drone was detected, it would consider it "a […]

[ad_1] STOCKHOLM – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the final prize to be given out this year and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 […]

[ad_1] Shizuoka – Former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamata, acquitted in a retrial 58 years after his arrest in a murder case, on Monday made his first public appearance since his acquittal became final last week. "There was a long battle. I've finally achieved a complete acquittal," Hakamata, 88, said at a gathering of supporters in the city of Shizuoka. He arrived at the venue in a wheelchair. After shaking […]