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The United States and Japan have estimated the total cost of jointly developing a new type of missile capable of intercepting hypersonic weapons will exceed $3 billion, a Defense Department official said Thursday. Of the total, Japan will allocate $1 billion to the Glide Phase Interceptor project, according to the official from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. The two countries are aiming to complete the missile's development by the 2030s. The joint development was agreed on by President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in August last year ahead of a trilateral summit with t...
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Russia shipped more than 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to North Korea in March in defiance of U.N. sanctions as the two countries have been forging closer relations, a senior White House official said Thursday. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Russian shipments have already topped North Korea's annual import cap mandated by the U.N. Security Council. North Korea is banned from importing more than 500,000 barrels of refined petroleum products a year under U.N. sanctions, approved in 2017 over Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile tests. "Given the close proximi...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden insisted Thursday that "order must prevail" on college campuses after weeks of turmoil, clashes with police and mass arrests involving student protests against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. Biden, who had remained tight-lipped as the student unrest expanded, spoke just hours after hundreds of police moved in to forcibly clear a sprawling encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, tearing down barriers and detaining more than 200 protestors. For weeks, authorities on campuses from New York to California have tried to thread the needle b...
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木原防衛相は、海上自衛隊ヘリコプターの墜落を受けて見合わせていた同型機の訓練飛行を3日にも再開すると...
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自民党の武井俊輔衆院議員がまたも交通トラブルだ。武井氏が同乗していた事務所の車が先日、宮崎・日南市の...
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岸田首相は、OECD(経済協力開発機構)の議長国として訪れたフランスでの日程を終え、日本時間の3日未...
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Monrovia (AFP) - Le président du Liberia Joseph Boakai a signé jeudi un décret marquant une étape majeure vers la création d'un tribunal qui jugerait les crimes des guerres civiles et que les victimes réclament depuis la fin des atrocités il y a plus de vingt ans. Environ 250.000 personnes ont perdu la vie lors des deux guerres civiles qui ont déchiré ce pays ouest-africain anglophone entre 1989 et 2003. Malgré les pressions de la société civile et de la communauté internationale, le Liberia n'a encore tenu aucun procès sur cette période marquée par une litanie d'exactions imputables à toutes ...
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An assembly plant to produce Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles opened in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone on Thursday. At an opening ceremony for the factory, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said, "Toyota is a giant company...When the giant comes to Cambodia with trust, many other companies will follow suit." "Cambodia needs this kind of investment," he added. The factory, operated by a Cambodian arm of Toyota Tsusho Corp., a group company under the Japanese automaker, will produce Toyota's Hilux pickup trucks and Fortuner SUVs. Toyota Tsusho CEO Ichiro Kashitani said his company "will contin...
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Washington (AFP) - Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry joined a group of US senators on Thursday to announce new legislation that would provide tens of millions of dollars towards menopause research and education. "The shame has to be taken out of menopause. We have to talk about this very normal part of our life," said the Hollywood star, who picked up a best actress Oscar for 2001 romantic drama "Monster's Ball." The bill, Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women's Health Act, is sponsored by senators from both parties and would divert $275 million to research, raising awareness and...
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日本とアメリカ、オーストラリア、フィリピンの4カ国の防衛閣僚による会談に出席するため、木原防衛相が2...
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