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2 Mar. 2018

Two arrested in Japanese fast-train bid-rigging case

TOKYO (Reuters) – A Kajima Corp official and a former executive of Taisei Corp were arrested on Friday as part of an investigation into the suspected rigging of bids for a Japanese high-speed rail project, prosecutors said. Prosecutors are in

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10 Oct. 2019

After Billions Spent Rebuilding Iraq, Russia And China Are Gaining Ground There

China and Iraq recently elevated their relationship to a ‘strategic partnership’

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9 Oct. 2019

All Of The NBA’s Chinese Partners Have Severed Their Relationships

‘Different viewpoints’

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11 Jun. 2024

What America Can Learn From Israel on the Battlefield

America has never successfully liberated and held territory from Islamic terrorists. After thousands dead in Afghanistan and Iraq, both countries are now controlled by Islamic terrorists. Many top current and former defense officials who oversaw both

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2 Mar. 2018

Russian military says new five-hour truce starts in Syria’s Ghouta: Ifax

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian military said a five-hour truce had begun in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta on Friday, the fourth such truce in as many days, the Interfax news agency quoted an official at Russia’s ceasefire monitoring center in Syria as saying

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2 Mar. 2018

Germany says ‘acute threat’ of hack averted after detection

BERLIN (AP) — A German security official says the immediate threat posed by a cyberattack on the government’s secure computer network was averted soon after it was detected.Following a report by news agency dpa on Wednesday, the government ackno

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18 Jun. 2024

Israel Gave Work Permits, While Palestinians Planned Oct. 7 Massacre

Prior to the October 7 massacre, more than 170,000 Palestinians were working in Israel, constituting an important source of income for the Palestinian economy…. The Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who were permitted to work in Israel received many of

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2 Mar. 2018

Egypt arrests mother cited in BBC report; lawyer disappears

CAIRO (AP) — A mother who in a BBC report that angered Egyptian authorities accused the police of torturing her daughter and being behind her disappearance has been arrested.Also, a human rights lawyer who reported the woman’s arrest has gone mi

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2 Mar. 2018

Polish lawmaker: due reparations from Germany could stand at $850 billion

By Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) – Warsaw has the right to demand reparations from Germany potentially worth $850 billion for destroyed property and people killed during World War Two, the politician in charge of reparations said on Friday.

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4 Apr. 2017

It’s Time for Conservatives to Celebrate This President

Do conservatives — or non-leftists, for that matter — appreciate just how terrific Donald Trump has been as president? And how lucky we are that he won the presidency? I don’t know the answer. What I do know is that they ought to be deeply appreciative of him, and deeply grateful for luck or providence,

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28 Feb. 2017

A Nation of Immigrants — Only If They Assimilate

I am writing this column in Japan, a country whose crime rate is the lowest among countries with large populations. I asked my Japanese translator, a middle-aged woman, what she thought. “Why is there is so little crime in Japan?” I asked. Without taking a moment to reflect, she responded, “Because we don’t allow immigration...

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8 Oct. 2019

Conservative Leader Calls Trudeau A ‘Fraud’ And ‘Phony’ In Election Debate

‘He’s very good at pretending things;’

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