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Japan midfielder Junya Ito accused of sexual assault

[ad_1] Japan soccer player Junya Ito has been accused of involving himself in a sexual act with two women without their consent last year and police are probing the allegation, according to a major publisher's news website and an investigative source. The report, first posted on Daily Shincho on Wednesday, came as the 30-year-old midfielder with the French club Stade de Reims was in Doha as part of Japan's national […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Africa

Africa: Does Africa’s Peace and Security Council Need Stronger Members?

[ad_1] Around half the countries bidding to join the PSC in 2024 are 'small states' with limited diplomatic clout. At the upcoming African Union (AU) summit from 15-19 February, 10 new countries will take their seats on the Peace and Security Council (PSC) for two-year terms. As the AU's primary decision-making organ on security matters, the strength of its members determines how effectively the PSC will respond to the plethora of challenges facing the continent. With all five regions of […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Entertainment

Congo-Kinshasa: Baloji Pushes Cinema Boundaries With Augure/Omen

[ad_1] The Belgian/Congolese rapper/composer/recording artist Baloji has always cut his own road, creating unclassifiable recordings and videos that reflect a broad and in some ways radical world view, full of provocative contradictions, ancient and modern elements colliding, all anchored in his deep, resonant, profoundly confident voice. Now Baloji has produced his first feature-length film Augure/Omen, a marvel of magic realism and sharp social commentary, all filmed during a 23-day shoot in Kinshasa. So has directing films supplanted music in Baloji […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Africa

African Countries Are Struggling With High Debt, Demands to Spend More and Collapsing Currencies – the Policy Fixes That Could Help

[ad_1] Highly indebted African countries are facing stark trade-offs between servicing expensive debt, supporting high and growing development needs, and stabilising domestic currencies. Government debt has risen in at least 40 African countries over the past decade. As a result, some are experiencing a bad combination of high debt, elevated development spending needs amid budget shortfalls, and unfavourable exchange rate pressures. These issues have become more pressing since 2022, when persistently high inflation prompted major central banks around the world […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Japan

Maxime Lucu to replace Antoine Dupont for France’s Six Nations opener

[ad_1] Paris – Scrumhalf Maxime Lucu will start France's Six Nations opener against Ireland this week, as the French begin the campaign without talismanic captain Antoine Dupont, head coach Fabien Galthie said on Wednesday. Lucu will stand in for Dupont as the former World Rugby Player of the Year misses the tournament in order to prepare to play Rugby Sevens at this year's Paris Olympics. The 31-year-old will partner Bordeaux-Begles […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Japan

‘Everything, Everywhere’: Contemplative drama speaks to lonely drifters

[ad_1] Japanese filmmakers have been shooting abroad for decades but typically on studio projects that use their foreign settings as exotic backdrops.Kah Wai Lim, a Malaysian director who has long been based on Osaka, makes indie films that are the very definition of borderless, including his Balkan trilogy: “No Where, Now Here” (2018), “Somewhen, Somewhere” (2019) and his latest, “Everything, Everywhere.”Shot with a skeleton crew and using local non-professionals to […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Japan

‘Sono Kodo ni Mimi o Ateyo’: An absorbing dive into pressures of the ER

[ad_1] Television dramas have been an effective recruitment tool for hospitals — and emergency rooms in particular. From George Clooney in “ER” to Ryohei Suzuki in “Tokyo MER,” successive generations of TV doctors and nurses have brought an aura of glamor to a profession more often defined by endless night shifts, impossible workloads and lousy pay.Early on during Takuro Adachi’s “Sono Kodo ni Mimi wo Ateyo” (which translates to “listen […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

Japan

Japan Times 1924: Rescue workers toiling to save eighteen lives

[ad_1] 100 YEARS AGOTuesday, Feb. 12, 1924Strenuous efforts are being made by willing workers to reach the eighteen men trapped a mile in from the entrance by the caving of the Tanna railway tunnel on Sunday. It is the hope of the rescue workers that the men are still alive and will be reached in time to snatch them from death, although the best that can be hoped for that […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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