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Japan’s Takaichi presses US after marine arrested over murder-robbery of woman

A 20-year-old US marine was arrested on Sunday in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture on suspicion of robbing and murdering a local woman, police said. Davin Ballard stationed at the Futenma Airbase is suspected of killing Anna Yagi, 39, and taking her wallet and backpack in the early hours of Saturday at a hotel in Naha, ac…

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Alone with the stars, lynx and wolves in ‘Empty Spain’

A world away from the tourist hotspots of the coast, Extremadura and Castile and León offer unpolluted skies, lower prices – and hope for the future of vulnerable wildlifeAs photographed at night from a satellite, or the International Space Station (ISS), the Iberian peninsula looks encrusted with lights along its c…

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Trump, burger, Hormuz: meet the Iranian team behind billboard war on US

Huge billboards on the walls of Tehran mocking US President Donald Trump and depicting American drones under the boot of an Iranian soldier are providing a chronicle of Iran’s war with the United States and Israel. Khaneh-ye Tarrahan, or Designers’ House, produces the billboards with anti-US messaging for prominent …

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Lee calls for thorough probe into personal data leaks at financial institutions

President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday called for a thorough investigation into a series of hacking attacks that caused personal information leaks at major banks and other financial institutions. Several financial firms suffered back-to-back leaks of customer information in recent hacking attacks, including Hana Bank, KB…

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Trump threatens tariffs of up to 300% as Korea faces pressure over US investment

US President Donald Trump said foreign companies that fail to build factories in the United States could face tariffs of up to 300 percent, as South Korea faces separate pressure from Washington over how it will carry out its $350 billion US investment commitment. Speaking at a campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on S…

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Polish activists launch abortion pill locker to bypass near-total ban

‘AbortOmat’ in Warsaw offers novel way to challenge country’s restrictions and allow women swift, anonymous access They call it the “world’s first parcel locker for abortion pills”. Polish campaigners have launched a new means of distribution as part of their ongoing effort to skirt the country’s near-total ban on a…

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Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books

A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacksOn a Saturday morning in August, Viktor Kruglov, the co-founder and chief executive of the publisher Ranok, was at his headquarters in Kharkiv – the eastern Ukrainian city that, along with Kyiv…

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3 students arrested in Malaysia over murder of girl found dead at school

Three male students have been detained by police in connection with the murder of a Form Four female student whose body was discovered at a school in Yong Peng, Malaysia’s Johor state, on Saturday. The victim, identified as 16-year-old Irene Sofiya Mohd Khairool Faisal, was found dead inside the school hall at aroun…

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New Mong Kok bookshop opens amid harsh winter for indie bookstores in Hong Kong

Small independent bookstores tucked away in walk-up tenement buildings above neon-lit streets have long made Mong Kok a sanctuary for Hong Kong book lovers, until recently when one after another was forced to close due to economic headwinds or political uncertainty. Defying the trend, 41-year-old bibliophile Grace L…

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Foreign investors sell W20.3tr in Korean stocks, led by SK hynix and Samsung Electronics

Foreign investors sold a net 20.3 trillion won ($15.1 billion) worth of shares on South Korea’s main Kospi market over the past month, with semiconductor heavyweights SK hynix and Samsung Electronics accounting for most of the outflow, market data showed Sunday. From Sept. 1 through Oct. 2, foreign investors recorde…

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Introducing Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast

Who is really in charge – the people or the markets? In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. What was it like during the Eurozone crisis when Varoufakis went head-to-head w…

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New AI laws should target data governance, safety to build public confidence: experts

Hong Kong should enact laws on data governance and underlying safety standards to ensure the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI), experts have said, as the government pledged to tackle disputes or crimes involving the technology’s application with tailored legislation. They also said that legislation was…

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Mars shelter problem can be solved with engineered yeast, gelatin and sand: paper

Future settlers on Mars would need houses, but they must either spend huge sums transporting construction materials from Earth or use enormous amounts of energy to melt Martian soil into bricks. Scientists in Hong Kong say they have developed a quick and low-cost “living” building material made from genetically engi…

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