Fri 15 November 2024: The number of births in Japan in 2024 is likely to fall under 700,000 for the first time after government data showed Tuesday that the figure in the first half fell 6.3 percent from a year earlier to 329,998, Kyodo News reported. Health ministry’s data for the six-month period from January, […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: Electric vehicle (EV) sales broke a record in October with 1.7 million units in sales, driven by strong demand in China, according to UK-based Rho Motion research house on Wednesday. The sales were up 35% year-on-year and 3% month-on-month, Rho Motion data showed. “The global EV market is now picking back […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: South Korea could consider more support for Ukraine in response to North Korea’s deployment of troops in Russia to support Moscow’s ongoing war, the South’s president said on Wednesday. Speaking to Spanish news agency EFE, Yoon Suk-yeol said Pyongyang has also provided weapons to Moscow. “If they both do not stop […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: Toxic smog obscured India’s famed monument to love, the Taj Mahal, as well as Sikhism’s holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, and delayed flights on Thursday, becoming too thick to see through in several places. The city of Lahore in neighbouring Pakistan ranked as the world’s most polluted in winter’s […]
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Wed 13 November 2024: A new fire season crackles to life in Kalimantan as 29-year-old Emmanuela Shinta monitors the air quality and distributes face masks to thousands of villagers expecting the worst. But she knows it is not enough. Each year, the region is prone to deadly fires caused by deforestation, trapping Borneo in a […]
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Tue 12 November 2024: At least 35 people were killed and 43 others injured in a car-ramming in southern China, state media reported on Tuesday. The incident occurred Monday night in Zhuhai city of the southeastern Guangdong province, when a 62-year-old male drove his car into the crowd, according to the local English daily Global Times. Chinese […]
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Mon 11 November 2024: China opposes the Philippine move to define the country’s maritime entitlements in the South China Sea. China has reasserted its territories around a flashpoint reef in the South China Sea after the Philippines defined its sea boundaries in the contested waters. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr signed two laws on Friday […]
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Mon 11 November 2024: A committee of the High Commission for Addressing the Problems of Migrants said the process of forced expulsion of Afghan migrants from neighboring countries has intensified. However, members of the committee emphasized, in their meeting with the Prime Minister’s administrative deputy, that they have managed the resettlement of the returnees well […]
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Sat 09 November 2024: Nissan Motor Co. on Thursday announced a plan to cut 9,000 jobs globally and slashed its operating profit outlook for the year ending March by 70 percent. The Japanese carmaker cut its fiscal 2024 operating profit forecast by 70 percent to 150 billion yen (about 975 million U.S. dollars), compared to […]
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Sat 09 November 2024: At least 26 people were killed and many others injured in a bomb explosion at Quetta city railway station in southwestern Pakistan early Saturday, police said. So far 26 people have been killed and 46 others injured, Muhammad Akram, a local police official, told Anadolu over phone. Earlier, a local senior […]
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