Mahomes, Kelce and Chiefs are 1 win away from NFL's first Super Bowl repeat in 19 years
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/mahomes-kelce-and-the-chiefs-are-1-win-away-from-nfl%27s-first-super-bowl-repeat-in-19-years
January 29, 2024, 2:22 AM
The first quarter was vintage Patrick Mahomes, picking apart the Baltimore defense with quick passes, with Travis Kelce on the other end of several of them.
Then the…
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52 killed in clashes in disputed oil-rich African region of Abyei
https://japantoday.com/category/world/52-killed-in-clashes-in-the-disputed-oil-rich-african-region-of-abyei-an-official-says
January 28, 2024, 9:43 PM
Gunmen attacked villagers in the oil-rich region of Abyei claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a U.N. peacekeeper, and 64…
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Farmers in France, Belgium, step up their protest campaigns
https://japantoday.com/category/world/farmers-in-france-belgium-step-up-their-protest-campaigns
January 28, 2024, 9:18 PM
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal promised to do more to meet the demands of angry farmers, as the government mobilised 15,000 police and gendarmes to handle a threatened…
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Tajikistan make more history to join Australia in Asian Cup quarterfinals
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/tajikistan-make-more-history-to-join-australia-in-asian-cup-quarters
January 28, 2024, 9:29 PM
Asian Cup debutants Tajikistan celebrated making more history as they stunned the United Arab Emirates on penalties to join Australia in the quarterfinals on Sunday.
After the game…
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Bullfighting set to return to Mexico City amid legal battle between fans and animal rights defenders
https://japantoday.com/category/world/bullfighting-set-to-return-to-mexico-city-amid-legal-battle-between-fans-and-animal-rights-defenders
January 28, 2024, 9:19 PM
Bullfights were set to return to Mexico City on Sunday after the country’s highest court temporarily revoked a local ruling that sided with human rights defenders and suspended…
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Australian Open champions won't see change in rankings
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/australian-open-champions-won%27t-see-change-in-rankings.-sinner-to-stay-at-no.-4-sabalenka-no.-2
January 28, 2024, 9:28 PM
Australian Open champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka will stay where they are when the new rankings are released on Monday.
Sinner consolidates his hold on a career-best…
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Biden says U.S. 'shall respond' after drone strike by Iran-backed group kills 3 U.S. troops in Jordan
https://japantoday.com/category/world/biden-three-americans-killed-%27many%27-wounded-in-drone-attack-by-iran-backed-militia-in-jordan
January 29, 2024, 12:55 AM
President Joe Biden said Sunday that the U.S. “shall respond” after three American troops were killed and dozens more were injured in an overnight drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border.…
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Liverpool advances in FA Cup in Klopp's first game since announcing plans to stand down
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/liverpool-advances-in-the-fa-cup-in-klopp%27s-first-game-since-announcing-plans-to-stand-down
January 28, 2024, 9:28 PM
It was business as usual for Liverpool in its first game since Jurgen Klopp announced his shock decision to walk away at the end of the season.
The…
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Quiet weekend at North American box office, with ‘The Beekeeper' on top and some Oscar boosts
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/a-quiet-weekend-at-the-box-office-with-%E2%80%98the-beekeeper%27-on-top-and-some-oscar-boosts
January 28, 2024, 9:27 PM
Movie theaters and audiences settled for seconds this weekend. With no new wide releases on the schedule, a mob of holdovers sustained the North American box office, which…
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Popularity of far-right party produces counter-rallies across Germany
https://japantoday.com/category/world/the-popularity-of-a-far-right-party-produces-counter-rallies-across-germany
January 28, 2024, 9:19 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people in Germany turned out for a third weekend to protest the popularity and policies of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD party.…
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Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are in Saudi Arabia to continue their around-the-world preseason tour
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/lionel-messi-and-inter-miami-are-in-saudi-arabia-to-continue-their-around-the-world-preseason-tour
January 28, 2024, 9:29 PM
Inter Miami played six preseason matches last season. Most were behind closed doors with few people watching, all took place in Florida and the biggest news probably came…
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House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security's Mayorkas over the border
https://japantoday.com/category/world/house-republicans-unveil-articles-of-impeachment-in-bid-to-oust-homeland-security-chief-over-border
January 28, 2024, 9:18 PM
House Republicans on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as they vowed to swiftly push forward with election-year efforts to oust him…
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Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso withdraw from West Africa regional bloc ECOWAS as tensions deepen
https://japantoday.com/category/world/mali-niger-and-burkina-faso-withdraw-from-west-africa%27s-regional-bloc-as-tensions-deepen
January 28, 2024, 9:19 PM
West African nations Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have withdrawn from the regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS, their respective juntas announced Sunday. They accused the bloc of…
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U.N. urges reversal of funding pause for Palestinian agency; vows to punish staffers
https://japantoday.com/category/world/un-urges-reversal-of-funding-pause-for-palestinian-agency-vows-to-punish-staffers
January 28, 2024, 9:18 PM
U.N. officials implored countries to reconsider a pause in funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinians on Sunday, vowing to punish anyone involved in Hamas' attack on Israel…
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Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt dominates World Cup super-G to match Bode Miller's tally of 33 wins
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/swiss-ski-star-marco-odermatt-dominates-world-cup-super-g-to-match-bode-miller%27s-tally-of-33-wins
January 28, 2024, 9:29 PM
Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt restored the pecking order in men’s World Cup super-G racing with a dominant victory Sunday, a day after he missed the podium for…
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Sinner rallies from 2 sets down to beat Medvedev in Australia and clinch his first Grand Slam title
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/sinner-rallies-from-2-sets-down-to-win-the-australian-open-final-from-medvedev-clinches-1st-major
January 28, 2024, 9:28 PM
Jannik Sinner lined up a forehand, drilled it down the line and dropped to the court on his back, giving himself some moments to process how he'd managed…
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Climate activists splash soup on glass-protected Mona Lisa
https://japantoday.com/category/world/activists-splash-soup-on-glass-protected-mona-lisa
January 28, 2024, 9:18 PM
Two protesters on Sunday hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food."
The action,…
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Argentina men dominate Perth rugby sevens and Ireland women make history
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/argentina-men-dominate-perth-rugby-sevens-and-ireland-women-make-history
January 28, 2024, 9:29 PM
Argentina's men maintained their domination of the rugby sevens world series by winning the Australia title after Ireland's champion women made history on Sunday.
The Argentines crushed Australia…
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Small jet overshoots runway at Oita airport, causing closure
https://japantoday.com/category/national/small-jet-overshoots-at-japanese-airport-causing-runway-closure
January 28, 2024, 9:24 PM
A small jet overshot the runway at Oita airport in southwestern Japan on Sunday, triggering its closure for around an hour and the cancellation of at least four…
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UK Post Office chief sacked as firm reels from IT scandal
https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk-post-office-chief-sacked-as-firm-reels-from-it-scandal
January 28, 2024, 9:18 PM
UK Business Minister Kemi Badenoch on Sunday said she had sacked the chairman of the Post Office amid tensions over the scandal of hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly convicted…
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Japan preparing to add transport roles to skilled visa amid shortages
https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-preparing-to-add-transport-roles-to-skilled-visa-amid-shortages
January 28, 2024, 9:23 PM
Japan is preparing to add four sectors including the transportation industry to its foreign blue-collar skilled worker visa granting up to five years of working rights, government sources…
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Gov't mulls meeting with Okinawa on U.S. base transfer plan
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-gov%27t-mulls-meeting-with-okinawa-on-u.s.-base-transfer-plan
January 28, 2024, 11:53 PM
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi on Sunday expressed eagerness to hold a task force meeting with Okinawa on the transfer of a key U.S. military base within…
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Ukraine says corrupt officials stole $40 million meant to buy arms for the war with Russia
https://japantoday.com/category/world/ukraine-says-corrupt-officials-stole-40-million-meant-to-buy-arms-for-the-war-with-russia
January 28, 2024, 9:18 PM
Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine's…
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Alexander Stubb wins first round of Finland's presidential vote to set up a runoff
https://japantoday.com/category/world/finns-go-to-the-polls-to-elect-a-new-president-at-an-unprecedented-time-for-the-nato-newcomer
January 28, 2024, 9:19 PM
Ex-Prime Minister Alexander Stubb was projected to win the first round of Finland's presidential election on Sunday and face runner-up Pekka Haavisto in a runoff next month.
Finnish…
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Israel notes 'significant gaps' after cease-fire talks with U.S., Qatar, Egypt
https://japantoday.com/category/world/un-chief-calls-on-countries-to-resume-funding-gaza-aid-agency-after-allegations-of-militant-ties
January 28, 2024, 9:17 PM
Israel said “significant gaps” remain after cease-fire talks on Sunday with the United States, Qatar and Egypt but called them constructive and said they would continue in the…
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Japan’s cutest bird becomes a Krispy Kreme sakura doughnut for cherry blossom season
https://japantoday.com/category/features/new-products/japan%E2%80%99s-cutest-bird-becomes-a-krispy-kreme-sakura-doughnut-for-cherry-blossom-season-1
January 28, 2024, 8:45 PM
People around Japan take delight in the blossoming of the sakura cherry blossoms, but the appearance of the spring blooms are perhaps nowhere more welcome than in the…
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Man arrested for attempting to set fire to his apartment in Hokkaido
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-arrested-for-attempting-to-set-fire-to-his-apartment-in-hokkaido
January 28, 2024, 9:26 PM
Police in Hakodate, Hokkaido, have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of attempting to set fire to an apartment building where he lives.
Police said they caught Kota…
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Houthi attacks in Red Sea are idling car factories and delaying new fashion
https://japantoday.com/category/business/houthi-attacks-in-the-red-sea-are-idling-car-factories-and-delaying-new-fashion.-will-it-get-worse
January 28, 2024, 9:22 PM
Car factories have idled in Belgium and Germany. Spring fashion lines are delayed at a popular British department store. A Maryland company that makes hospital supplies doesn’t know…
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Man believed to be fugitive 1970s terrorist bomber dies in hospital
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/update1-bombing-fugitive-worked-for-decades-at-building-contractor
January 28, 2024, 11:53 PM
A man thought to be the suspect wanted for one of a series of terrorist bombings in Japan in the 1970s died Monday morning, an investigative source said.…
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U.S. Fed rate cuts become question of when, not if
https://japantoday.com/category/business/us-fed-rate-cuts-become-question-of-when-not-if
January 28, 2024, 9:23 PM
The U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to start cutting interest rates in the coming months, as inflation edges closer to its long-run target of two percent.
What…
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