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Washington (AFP) - The United States is the first to acknowledge that its long-awaited $61 billion aid package for Ukraine is not a "silver bullet." As weapons and ammunition are rushed to the country, other issues such as manpower shortages in Kyiv's struggling military have come to the fore. Meanwhile, the monthslong delay in passing the aid package -- caused by wrangling among US lawmakers -- has further weakened Ukraine's position on the battleground, according to analysts. President Joe Biden, who quickly signed the law Wednesday after it passed Congress, said the bill "should have gotte...
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The Bank of Japan is widely expected to leave its policy rate unchanged at a two-day meeting from Thursday, a month after implementing a hike for the first time in 17 years, though a persistently weak yen is raising the prospect of higher inflation driven by import costs. The Policy Board shifted to using short-term rates as its major policy tool last month, guiding them in a range of between zero and 0.1 percent. It ended unorthodox monetary easing that had weakened the yen, including its negative rate and yield cap program, as robust wage growth has boosted the BOJ's confidence that stable i...
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Austin (AFP) - Spiraling pro-Palestinian protests that are rocking universities across the United States spread to more campuses Wednesday, triggering suggestions from a senior Republican leader that the National Guard could be brought in. The comments from House Speaker Mike Johnson are likely to evoke strong emotions in a country where the 1970 killing by National Guardsmen of unarmed students protesting the Vietnam war lives on in folk memory. Demonstrations erupted at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, and in Texas, where a tense stand-off developed between students and po...
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自民党・安倍派に所属していた宮澤博行 衆議院議員が4月23日、額賀福志郎 議長に辞職願を提出した。翌...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday on whether Idaho's near-total ban on abortion conflicts with a federal law requiring hospitals to stabilize patients needing emergency care, in a case that carries potentially sweeping national consequences. The hearing comes nearly two years after the conservative-majority bench overturned the national right to terminate a pregnancy, making reproductive rights a pivotal issue that could affect the outcome of the November presidential election. Emotions ran deep outside the court where hundreds of women's rights activists, some...
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New York (AFP) - Yazen has slept on Columbia University's south lawn almost every night for more than a week now, one of several dozen students living at the prestigious school's "Gaza Solidarity Encampment." The 23-year-old Palestinian-American has been splitting his days between his medical studies at Columbia's historic Butler Library, adjacent to the smooth green lawn, and the upkeep of the colorful tents on the school's main campus, in the heart of New York City. Since last Monday, dozens of students and alumni have come together to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where Isr...
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San Francisco (AFP) - TikTok's CEO vowed Wednesday to fight in the courts to overturn a newly signed US law that could see the popular app banned due to allegations it is controlled by the Chinese government. The legislation gives TikTok nine months to divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market. US and other Western officials have alleged the social media platform allows Beijing to collect data and spy on users. It has 170 million users in the United States alone, many of them young. Critics say TikTok is also a conduit to spread propaganda. China an...
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President Joe Biden signed a bill aimed at forcing a change of ownership of popular video-sharing app TikTok into law on Wednesday after the US Senate approved it by a large margin. The law threatens TikTok with being banned from US app stores if it is still owned by the Chinese-based ByteDance Group in a year's time. Tiktok intends to challenge the law in court. The Senate approved the bill late Tuesday with 79 votes in the 100-seat upper chamber. In the United States, ByteDance is seen across party lines as a Chinese company that must bow to the will of the Chinese Communist Party. There are...
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