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TOKYO (Sputnik) – Japan is ready to continue efforts on developing economic relations with Russia, Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko said on Monday. “I, as the minister responsible for economic cooperation with Russia, uniting the efforts of the Japanese government, am…
Opposition within Germany’s Christian Democratic Union to a UN Global Compact for Migration has grown despite Chancellor Angela Merkel’s backing. There are growing reservations within Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) about Germany signing onto the United Nations’ migration pact. Health Minister Jens…
Back in 2011, Tommy Robinson, co-founder of the right-wing street protest movement, the English Defence League, was convicted of leading a street brawl with 100 football fans in the town of Luton. Tommy Robinson, a right-wing activist and co-founder of the…
Participants at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, adopted a final declaration on 18 November but did not include some controversial points in the document. Trade wars threaten the entire…
After two months of being pummelled by the news, everyone in the “S.N.L.” cast this week looked ready for a break. Throughout Saturday’s show, the presumably exhausted writers relied on throwbacks and old reliable tactics. (At times they swerved lazily…
In 2014, the novelist Rachel Cusk published “Outline,” the first novel in a trilogy whose style was markedly different from anything that she had previously written. On a brief trip to Greece, Faye, the novel’s protagonist, does very little, and…
