Sri Lanka signs $2.5 bil debt deal with Japan
[Japan Today] - 03/7/2025
Sri Lanka signed a deal with Japan Friday to restructure $2.5 billion in loans, marking the first agreement with bilateral creditors who had pledged debt relief to the…
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Huge marches held in Belgrade and other Serbian cities as anti-graft protests persist
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[Japan Today] - 7/03/2025
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[Japan Today] - 7/03/2025
Nagoya High Court rules same-sex marriage denial unconstitutional
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[Japan Today] - 7/03/2025
U.S. gov't cancels $400 million in grants, contracts to Columbia University over antisemitism allegations
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[Japan Today] - 8/03/2025
Gene Hackman died of heart disease; his wife died of hantavirus about 1 week prior, authorities say
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[Japan Today] - 8/03/2025
Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
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[Japan Today] - 7/03/2025
Muslim nations endorse alternative to Trump's Gaza takeover plan
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[Japan Today] - 8/03/2025
South Carolina carries out first firing squad execution in U.S. in 15 years
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[Japan Today] - 8/03/2025
Canada to name new leader while dealing with Trump trade war
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[Japan Today] - 7/03/2025
Scores killed as Syrian forces seek to crush Alawite insurgency
Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar (…)
[Japan Today] - 7/03/2025
20 states sue Trump administration over mass firings of probationary federal workers
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[Japan Today] - 8/03/2025
