AJMEDIA News Digest: June 25, 2022

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ G-7 agrees Russia is responsible for global food crisis TOKYO – Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations agreed Friday that Russia’s invasion of… Read more

U.S., Japan launch initiative for Pacific islands amid China’s rise

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ The United States, Japan, Australia, Britain and New Zealand on Friday launched a new initiative to step up engagement in the Pacific, where China seems to… Read more

G-7 agrees Russia is responsible for global food crisis

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations agreed Friday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a breadbasket of the world, has triggered the current global… Read more

Japan’s top court orders Twitter to delete posts on man’s past arrest

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s top court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling that dismissed a man’s demand that Twitter Inc. delete posts showing his arrest history, ordering the… Read more

SMBC Nikko’s investigation panel calls trading scandal “unfair act”

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. said Friday an investigation panel looking into the major Japanese brokerage’s trading scandal has called it an “inappropriate and unjust act,” adding… Read more

Earth’s oldest known wildfires raged 430 million years ago

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ Bits of charcoal entombed in ancient rocks unearthed in Wales and Poland push back the earliest evidence for wildfires to around 430 million years ago. Besides… Read more

Cholpon-Ata Declaration of XI plenary session of TurkPA adopted

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ XI plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking Countries (TurkPA) completed its work in Cholpon-Ata on Friday, AJMEDIA reports citing Kabar. Speaker of the Jogorku… Read more

World Bank approves $562 million funding for 3 projects In India

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ World Bank has approved three loans totalling $562 million to fund an education project in Gujarat, a social protection programme in Tamil Nadu and a project… Read more

U.S. Congress sends gun bill to White House

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ The U.S. Congress sent a gun bill to the White House, AJMEDIA reports citing Xinhua. The House of Representatives voted 234-193 on Friday to pass the… Read more

Jordan’s king says he supports Middle East military alliance similar to NATO

Tokyo, 25 June, /AJMEDIA/ Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Friday that he supports a military alliance in the Middle East similar to the Western-led NATO, AJMEDIA reports citing Al Arabiya.… Read more