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Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
Tim Duncan saves the day as the Spurs hold off the Grizzlies in overtime
A two-day meeting to discuss how to utilize African natural resources started in Tokyo on Thursday, with around 2,000 people, including natural resources ministers from 15 African nations, attending. At the Japan Sustainable Mining, Investment and Technology Business Forum, or J-SUMIT, the African ministers ...
Koyasan Shingon Buddhism, the owner of a cluster of World Heritage Site temples founded in the ninth century, reported losses equal to about a quarter of its assets after bets on the Australian dollar and structured bonds soured. The group had unregistered losses of ...
Japan plans to sign an agreement with Saudi Arabia next month to facilitate Japanese investment in the world’s biggest oil producer to help secure overseas energy resources at lower costs, a government source said. The plan will coincide with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit ...
Sitting around the long, wooden kitchen table in their farmhouse on a Sunday afternoon, Rene and Judith Dekker were tired-eyed from rising before dawn to tend to their 1,200 dairy cows. Their two older kids were packing up for the drive back to college ...
Maybe it’s bargain shopping. Maybe it’s the fallout from the strict U.S. security climate. Maybe it’s a sign of China becoming more comfortable with its international role. But as Chinese companies and entrepreneurs move to invest more overseas, they have been drawn increasingly to ...
Nicolas Clavel, portfolio manager at commodities fund Scipion Capital Ltd., is brushing aside worries about impacts on investment in Africa from last month’s terrorist attack on a natural gas complex in Algeria. “In terms of investment in Africa, I don’t essentially think that there ...
The government will accelerate efforts to attract foreign investment and stimulate greater domestic investment with deregulation and tax incentives, officials said Monday, outlining a key part of the administration’s forthcoming growth strategy. The outline also focuses on improving the global competitiveness of the nation’s ...