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Japan

No-frills flying emerges as air travel’s painful, greener future

[ad_1] Densely packed aircraft, little legroom and no free drinks. It’s starting to look like the uncomfortable reality of global air travel for more and more passengers as airlines race to decarbonize. The spartan cabins and fuss-free service of low-cost carriers appeared half a century ago, a makeover that made flying affordable to the masses. Since Southwest Airlines first took off from Dallas in 1971, dozens of budget peers including […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024

Japan

China pivot from Taiwan would be Tuvalu’s decision, says Australia

[ad_1] Australia won’t interfere in any moves by the Pacific nation of Tuvalu to end its diplomatic relationship with Taiwan, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has said, following media reports that it could follow Nauru’s lead in shifting its alliance to China.Tuvalu’s foreign policy is a matter for the Pacific nation alone, Wong said at a news conference in Canberra on Tuesday. Any decision on its recognition of either Taiwan […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024

Africa

Africa: The Minerva Research Initiative – The Military-University-Industry Complex Targets Africa

[ad_1] The Pentagon launched the Minerva Research Initiative in 2008 as a “DoD-sponsored, university-based social science research initiative that focuses on areas of strategic importance to the US national security policy.”  It is intended “to identify and support basic social science research issues in need of attention and to integrate those research insights into the policy-making environment.”  Each spring, the DoD announces three-year grants (which can be extended up to five years. In his announcement of grants on 24 February […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024

Japan

Two workers taken to hospital after power outage halts shinkansen in eastern Japan

[ad_1] Two workers were taken to a hospital Tuesday after they were apparently electrocuted while working to fix a hanging overhead electrical wire on a shinkansen track that was believed to have caused a power outage and halted bullet train lines in eastern and central Japan, police sources said.Many bullet train services between Tokyo and stations in eastern and central Japan that were suspended due to the power outage will […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024

Japan

BOJ stands pat on policy as quake’s economic impact remains unclear

[ad_1] In a widely expected move, the Bank of Japan left the world’s last negative rate policy unchanged Tuesday, due in part to uncertainty over how the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck Ishikawa Prefecture on Jan. 1 will affect the Japanese economy.Market participants and observers are closely watching for when the BOJ will start exiting negative rates, amid growing expectations that the central bank will likely seek normalization from its […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024

Japan

Filipino man arrested over bodies found under Tokyo home

[ad_1] A Filipino man has been arrested in connection with the case of a couple whose bodies were found underneath their home with stab wounds in Tokyo last week, police said Tuesday. Bryan Jefferson Lising Dela Cruz, 34, is suspected of abandoning the bodies of Norihiro Takahashi, 55, and his wife Kimie, 52, at their residence in Tokyo's Adachi Ward. He has admitted to the allegations following his arrest on […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024

Africa

Africa: Secretary Antony J. Blinken At an Event On Food Security and Economic Growth At the Africarice Headquarters

[ad_1] Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire — SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you very much. Well, good afternoon, everyone. And for me, it was both a pleasure and fascinating to be here, both with my colleague from the African Development Bank and also from AfricaRice, just to see the extraordinary work that's being done to get to a place where, as President Biden has said, Africa feeds itself - and actually, more than itself, a place where Africa feeds the world. And that is […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024

Africa

West Africa: Blinken Pledges $45m to Boost Coastal West Africa Security

[ad_1] U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday pledged $45 million in additional financing to help fight conflict and bring stability to coastal West Africa, where insecurity linked to jihadist insurgencies has increased in recent years. Blinken is on the second stop of a four-nation tour of Africa, taking him to Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Angola from January 21-26. The purpose of the trip is to discuss U.S.-African partnerships over trade, climate, infrastructure, health, security, and other […]

todayJanuary 24, 2024

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