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BASKETBALL / NBA
Apr 14, 2022

Warriors' Stephen Curry goes through first full practice since injury

The eight-time All-Star and two-time league MVP sank just 38% of his 3-point attempts in the recently-concluded regular season, the second-lowest figure of his career.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 14, 2022

South Korea's incoming president denies report he asked to attend Quad summit in Japan

Asked about possible summits with U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's team said he 'welcomes' early meetings.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 14, 2022

Raiders' QB Derek Carr signs three-year $121.5 million extension

Carr recorded a career-high and franchise-record 4,804 passing yards last season with six 300-yard games.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Apr 14, 2022

NBA mogul and former captain duo join Stephen Pagliuca on Chelsea bid

Chelsea were put up for sale by owner Roman Abramovich following Russia's invasion and before sanctions were imposed on the oligarch by the British government.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Apr 14, 2022

Alexander Zverev cruises into Monte Carlo Masters final 16

Zverev, who took to court as the highest ranked player remaining in the tournament, lost the first four points of the match but breezed through the first set in just over 20 minutes
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 14, 2022

The Philippines toppled one Marcos. Now his son may become president.

Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has spent decades defending his family's name against accusations of greed and corruption and downplaying the legacy of his father's brutal rule.
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WORLD
Apr 14, 2022

Ruined port city of Mariupol could become Russia's first big win in Ukraine

The siege of the city has been the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the conflict, and has been described by Kyiv as a war crime.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 14, 2022

Nikon looks beyond cameras to reinvent itself as tech supplier

The manufacturer almost single-handedly brought accessible high-quality cameras to the masses but the rise of smartphones and more advanced chipmaking tech has taken its toll on revenue.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 14, 2022

Troops burn villages in Myanmar heartland as they seek to crush resistance

The military and pro-military militias have been setting fire to villages in central Myanmar almost every day since December.
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BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Apr 14, 2022

Toshiba’s talk of privatization leaves some analysts with doubts

Toshiba is in talks with financial institutions on a buyout plan that would be led by domestic investors.
After just 1.3 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial levels, the countries with the most refugees, asylum-seekers, and displaced people are already among those hardest hit by climate change.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2024

It’s far cheaper to help migrants before they leave home

As global temperatures rise, so will the frequency of heat waves, droughts, floods, pandemics, natural disasters, food and water shortages and conflicts over resources.
Houthis hold a military parade to mark the anniversary of their takeover in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sept. 21.
WORLD
Jun 16, 2024

U.S. Navy rescue crew from Greek-owned ship struck by Houthis in Red Sea

The attack, which occurred near the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, caused severe flooding and damage to the engine room and left the Tutor unable to maneuver.
Muons can penetrate dense materials, even bedrock several kilometers thick, and therefore are used for internal inspections for volcanos and pyramids, as well as the reactors at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station.
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2024

Japan team succeeds in muon reacceleration in major breakthrough

Muons have characteristics similar to those of electrons but have a mass some 200 times greater.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks at papers as he attends a plenary session during a peace summit at the luxury Burgenstock resort in Switzerland on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 17, 2024

Ukraine summit sees hard road to peace as way forward uncertain

The peace conference failed to persuade major nonaligned states to join their final statement, and no country came forward to host a sequel.
Palestinians hold Eid al-Adha prayers by the ruins of the Al-Rahma mosque destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 17, 2024

Netanyahu denounces tactical pauses in Gaza fighting to allow in aid

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction underlined political tensions over the issue of aid coming into Gaza.
The US economic engine has pulled in an increasing share of global capital.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 17, 2024

How the U.S. mopped up a third of global capital flows since COVID-19

The U.S. also pulled in a fresh wave of foreign direct investment thanks to billions of dollars worth of incentives.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, in November 2022. The plant was shuttered in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, and has sat idle since.
JAPAN
Jun 23, 2024

World’s largest nuclear plant sits idle while energy needs soar

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant has the potential capacity to power more than 13 million households.
South Korean Defense Minister Shin Wonsik at the ministry's briefing room in Seoul on Friday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 17, 2024

U.S., South Korea, Japan to lock in security ties before inauguration

South Korean Defense Minister Shin Wonsik said that the three countries' defense chiefs will soon sign a pact known as the Trilateral Security Cooperation Framework.
Bryson DeChambeau celebrates after making a putt on No. 18 to win the U.S. Open in Pinehurst, North Carolina, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Jun 17, 2024

Bryson DeChambeau outduels Rory McIlroy in final round to win U.S. Open

DeChambeau parred the final three holes to complete a 1-over-par 71, and that was enough for a one-shot victory.
Marine Le Pen speaks during a European election campaign rally in Paris on June 2.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 17, 2024

France's Le Pen says she will work with Macron to appeal to moderates

Marine Le Pen is reaching out to mainstream voters as she aims to cement a majority in the next parliament.
The Henoko coastal district in the city of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 17, 2024

Okinawa governor's camp fails to secure majority in assembly poll

The tough election result is seen forcing the Okinawa governor to face difficulties managing the prefectural administration.
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in March
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 17, 2024

Four Thai court cases that could unleash political crisis

Four cases before the courts on Tuesday involve the country's most powerful politicians.
Microsoft Japan President Miki Tsusaka
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 17, 2024

Microsoft’s Japan chief sees country accelerating its use of AI

Microsoft Japan President Miki Tsukasa sees AI as an inevitable and revolutionary new part of tech.
South Korean soldiers walk past a military facility where loudspeakers dismantled in 2018 used to be, near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, on June 10.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 17, 2024

South Korea's loudspeakers face questions over reach into North

Tests in 2017 showed broadcasts could not be understood further than 7 kilometers, short of the 10 km that the military touted as reaching the North's Kaesong city.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
WORLD / Politics
Jun 17, 2024

Disastrous results in U.K. polling show scale of Sunak’s challenge

Seat-by-seat analysis by Survation found Labour to be on course to a large majority.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past