AJMEDIA News Digest: March 17, 2022

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA 2 killed, 92 injured after M7.4 quake hits northeastern Japan TOKYO – Two people were killed and many others injured when a powerful earthquake rocked northeastern… Read more

Sapporo says it won’t hold referendum on 2030 Winter Olympics bid

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA The Japanese city of Sapporo has no plans to conduct a public referendum on holding the 2030 Winter Olympics, Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto said Wednesday. The northern… Read more

Physicists explain the mesmerizing movements of raindrops on car windshields

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA Staring at raindrops on a car windshield is more than just a way to get in touch with your emo side. You might also learn some… Read more

U.S. Fed decides 1st rate hike since 2018 amid inflation, Russia war

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA The U.S. Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will raise key interest rates for the first time since 2018 and signaled six more rate increases this year… Read more

2 dead, dozens injured after M7.4 quake hits northeastern Japan

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit off northeastern Japan late Wednesday, leaving at least two people dead and dozens injured and causing a high-speed shinkansen train… Read more

North Korea appears to have failed in ballistic missile test

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA North Korea appears to have conducted an unsuccessful ballistic missile launch from an area in Pyongyang, South Korea’s military said Wednesday, with the projectile exploding soon… Read more

Tokyo stocks’ Nikkei index surges over 3% after Fed policy meeting

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA Tokyo stocks opened sharply higher Thursday, with the benchmark Nikkei index surging over 3 percent, as sentiment was supported by advances on Wall Street following an… Read more

Zelenskyy pleads for help in speech to U.S. Congress; Biden calls Putin war criminal

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy summoned the memory of Pearl Harbor and the Sept 11 terror attacks Wednesday in an impassioned video plea to Congress to send… Read more

Cavushoglu and Blinken discuss latest developments in Ukraine

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a telephone conversation, Blinken wrote on his Twitter page, AJMEDIA reports. According to… Read more

Field mission conducted in liberated Agdam, Fuzuli and Jabrayil districts – assistant to Azerbaijani president

Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA We had fruitful discussion with EU, UN and World Bank joint “Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment” team, Assistant to the Azerbaijani President, Head of the Foreign Policy… Read more