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Three Lower House by-elections were held in Japan on Sunday. Candidates from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party have won all three seats. The results are expected to affect the management of the government led by Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. The by-elections were held in constituencies in Tokyo…

Ensuring Poland's security and its strong position in the European Union as well as restoration of an apolitical foreign service are on the long list of tasks presented on Thursday (April 25) by the head of Polish diplomacy Radosław Sikorski. In his parliamentary address, the foreign minister stressed that Germany and France are Poland's "most…

The decision could provide a clue into the selectors' thinking for the T20 World Cup though the English-born player has so far met with limited success in the international area. The 25-year-old allrounder had signed to feature in three first-class four-day County…

The college encampments in the Boston area and across New England are part of a national wave of student protests against the Israel-Hamas war.Some demonstrators have said they don’t plan to break down the encampments until their school leaders meet their demands to condemn the rising death toll in Gaza and, in some cases, divest from financial…

A federal appellate court in Richmond became the first in the country to rule that state health-care plans must pay for gender-affirming surgeries, a major win for transgender rights amid a nationwide wave of anti-trans activism and legislation.The decision came from a set of cases out of North Carolina and West Virginia, where state officials…

Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Water vapor rises from cooling towers of the Niederaussem coal-fired power plant on March 25, in Bergheim, Germany.…

Tesla (TSLA) stock soared Monday following reports that CEO Elon Musk won Chinese approval to deploy the automaker’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) autonomous software on the mainland.As was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, people familiar with the matter said that officials told Tesla that they had tentatively approved FSD in the country…

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A US fighter named Russell Bentley who fought with pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine has been killed in occupied Donetsk, Al Jazeera can confirm. Earlier this month, Russian authorities reported that the 64-year-old citizen of the United States and Russia had gone missing. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Russia Today news channel and…

Example of a Russian-made Lancet-3 loitering munition. Russian Ministry of Defense Iranian media revealed the development of a new loitering munition—colloquially known as “suicide” or “kamikaze” drones—over the weekend, noting its mild resemblance to Russia’s Lancet drone, which has seen combat in Syria and Ukraine since entering service in…