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NEW YORK, New York – More positive employment data underpinned U.S. stocks Friday, with all the major indices surging more than two percent. The Nonfarm payrolls report revealed 223,000 new jobs were created last month, well ahead of expectations of 200,000. Hourly earnings on average increased 4.60 percent compared to December 2021, less than expected. […]

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, visits Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, central Japan on Jan. 4, 2023. Japan and the United States will hold security talks between their foreign and defense ministers in Washington the day before Japanese Prime Minister Kishida lands in the U.S. capital next week wrapping up his tour of Group […]

The Defence Department has granted dozens of weapons export permits over the past two years to nations accused of mass human rights violations and war crimes. Key points: The ABC can reveal that 200 export permits to Saudi Arabia, UAE and Indonesia were approved between 2021 and 2022 Greens senator David Shoebridge said the deals […]

In Tokyo’s Asakusa tourist district, caricaturist Masashi Higashitani is dusting off his Chinese as he prepares for an influx of travellers after Beijing ends inbound quarantine rules. “We used to say ‘ni hao’ all the time,” he said with a laugh as he whipped up a portrait in minutes. Nearly 9.6 million Chinese visited Japan […]

The climate change conference in November 2022 at Sharm El Sheikh Egypt received a lot of media attention. Many argued it to be the historical COP due to its breakthrough result of creation of the ‘Loss & Damage Fund’, a decades long demand put forward by small island nations and developing nations as an argument […]

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Ahmedabad, Jan 6 (PTI) Head of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha Mahant Swami Maharaj on Friday initiated 46 youths into the monastic order in a grand initiation ceremony held at Pramukh Swami Maharaj Nagar in Ahmedabad. Also Read | Madhya Pradesh: Cold Wave Breaks All Records, Chhatarpur Records Minimum Temperature at 0.2 Degree Celsius. These 46 […]

Yvette Tanamal (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Jakarta   ●   Sat, January 7 2023 Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s state visit to Jakarta next week will offer an opportunity for Indonesia to strengthen its ties with Kuala Lumpur and address persisting bilateral issues, experts say, amid regional and global tensions.  Anwar is scheduled to arrive […]

By early 1974, there was a sudden and potentially disastrous scarcity of food, especially grains such as wheat, rice and maize, affecting at least 30 countries across the Global South and threatening tens of millions of people with famine. There weren’t overall shortages: average world grain reserves were down to half the usual level but […]

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said it is India’s duty to become the voice of the global South, or the developing world, which is facing several challenges at present and is looking at New Delhi with high hopes. Earlier in the day, his ministry announced India will host a virtual summit on January […]