More than 60 feared dead after jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Washington airport

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ Scores of people were feared dead after an American Airlines regional passenger jet with 64 people on board and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided… Read more

Life’s ‘basic building blocks’ found in asteroid samples

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks” for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life… Read more

Australian PM defends antisemitism response as Israel urges more action

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ Israel urged Australia to do more to halt an “epidemic of antisemitism” in the country as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government was doing all… Read more

White House revokes spending freeze in face of legal challenges

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ President Donald Trump’s administration pulled back a proposed spending freeze that threatened to disrupt hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to U.S. programs, a White… Read more

Nissan plans job and production cuts in U.S.

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ Nissan Motor Corp is slashing production at its U.S. plants and offering buyouts to factory workers there as part of the Japanese automaker’s urgent efforts to… Read more

Did DeepSeek copy ChatGPT? Trump adviser thinks so

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ Did the upstart Chinese tech company DeepSeek copy ChatGPT to make the artificial intelligence technology that shook Wall Street this week? That’s what ChatGPT maker OpenAI… Read more

Sinkholes in Saitama merge; truck driver still trapped on 3rd day

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ A sinkhole at an intersection in Saitama Prefecture that swallowed a truck collapsed further Thursday and merged with a second opening that had formed nearby, as… Read more

Japan to halt funding for U.N. women’s rights panel over call to end male-only imperial succession

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial… Read more

President Ilham Aliyev offers condolences to U.S. President Donald Trump

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has extended his condolences to President of the United States Donald Trump. In his letter of condolence, President… Read more

Azerbaijani ambassador presents credentials to King of the Netherlands

Tokyo, 30 January, /AJMEDIA/ Mammad Ahmadzada, Azerbaijan’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, presented his credentials to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. During the meeting, discussions focused on strengthening… Read more