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After deciding to scrap nuclear power, Germany is pondering saying goodbye to coal, its biggest energy source but also its top polluter and main threat to ambitious climate goals. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is split on the issue, which pits

If you’re planning on nefarious activity at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus, think again; Microsoft has installed security guards around the grounds that are robots 5 feet tall and weighing 300 pounds. Knightscope manufactured the robots, sans weapons, but they do

Senior North Korean officials visit Moscow infrequently but the isolated country is trying to counter a U.N. resolution urging Pyongyang’s referral to the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity. Russia is also one of five countries involved in talks

(AFP) Japanese police on Thursday raided the home of a 67-year-old multi-millionaire arrested on suspicion of poisoning her latest husband after six other partners also died, and reportedly recovered cyanide from her trash. Television footage showed about a dozen investigators,

Japan’s lower house on Tuesday passed a bill criminalising “revenge porn”, as it seeks a legal remedy to a growing problem of the Internet age. The bill, which cleared the house unanimously, will be sent to the upper house and

President Obama is expected to issue an executive order to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation as soon as this week. The move will frustrate and anger Republicans—some of whom argue that such an action would not only be

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The annual G-20 leadership summit that groups democrats with authoritarians and rich nations with poor has long suffered from a perception it’s all talk and no action. This year, leaders are under extra pressure to produce

Hollywood has the “Oscars.” Now Washington has the “Honors.” Sponsored by the American Veterans Center and Northrop Grumman Corporation, hundreds of millions will have the opportunity to be enriched by our military heroes’ “full measure of devotion” when “The Honors”

(AFP) A man has burned himself to death in Tokyo in an apparent protest against Japan’s controversial move to expand the role of its military, local media said Wednesday, after a similar incident earlier this year. The unidentified man’s body

Police are appealing for witnesses after a British veteran was mugged by a gang of Asian teenagers, who robbed him of his medals, regimental beret, and poppy as he walked to a Remembrance Sunday parade to mark the centenary of

Fashion-forward Japanese clothing company Triumph has announced their new bra line, inspired by Disney’s Frozen, which serves to honor the sacred bond of sisterhood. Triumph designs a new bra line every year to celebrate the social trends in Japan. This year, the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China’s Xi Jinping snubs Japan’s Shinzo Abe at Beijing meeting Palestinian violence increases around Jerusalem Israeli lawyers file war crimes complaint in ICC against Mahmoud Abbas ‘Kiss of Love’ demonstrations challenge Hindu nationalism in

The deadliest Ebola outbreak ever is finally slowing in Liberia, the worst-hit country, but still wreaking havoc in two neighbouring west African states amid warnings of thousands of unreported deaths. As the initially lacklustre global response to the crisis centred

(Reuters) – Asian countries are not contributing enough to the global effort to fight Ebola, despite having a wealth of trained medical personnel who could help stop the spread of the deadly virus, World Bank Group president Jim Yong Kim

WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s roaring economy for years has pulled much of the rest of the world with it, soaking up oil, iron ore and other commodities from developing countries and autos and luxury goods from Europe. But its role

Healthcare experts say a vexing problem that puts patients at risk is playing out nationally: the computer systems American hospitals and doctors’ offices use to send and store a patient’s medical records can’t talk to one another.  Worse, when Americans

BERA, Malaysia, 26th October, 2014 (WAM) — As a move to prepare for the Olympic Games in 2020, Japan will import Halal products from Malaysia to be marketed throughout the country, according to Agriculture and Agro-Based Industries Minister, Datuk Seri

On May 9 Breitbart News reported that Japanese Sword and Firearm Control officers arrested Yoshitomo Imura for possession of five 3D-printed firearms.  On October 22 The Japan News reported Imura has been sentenced “to two years in prison for producing

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea’s reclusive government abruptly freed an American man Tuesday, nearly six months after he was arrested on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, but Pyongyang refused to hand over two other U.S. citizens who

Teen Yazidi sex slaves under control of the Islamic State; North Korea’s torture camps for “re-education” of political dissidents; electric shock torture in the prisons of Uzbekistan— the world is teeming with a wide variety of human rights violations. But this

A man has been convicted of possessing prohibited images of children thanks solely to his large collection of manga and animé cartoons. Robul Hoque, who was convicted at Teesside Crown Court after pleading guilty to ten counts of the charge,

A Tokyo court has ordered Facebook to disclose the IP addresses used by fake accounts that were posting revenge porn, a lawyer said Tuesday, in the first such case in Japan. In response to the order the US-based social networking

A police raid on a home in Redmond, Washington, snared more than guns, drugs and prostitutes. It netted ex-Seattle Sonics player Robert Swift. Robert Swift is one of professional basketball’s cautionary tales. Drafted out of high school in 2004 at

World stock markets mostly rebounded Friday after a fall in U.S. unemployment applications and comments from a Federal Reserve official eased nerves about a stalling economic recovery. KEEPING SCORE: After sharp falls earlier this week, European markets shot higher, continuing

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — More than 1,000 rescue workers and soldiers cleared piles of uprooted trees and electrical poles blocking roads on Monday after powerful Cyclone Hudhud slammed into India’s eastern coast, killing at least eight people and demolishing tens

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what one academic called “crystal clear and resonant”

TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon that washed three American airmen in Okinawa out to sea, killing at least one, slammed central Japan on Monday, stalling trains and flights and triggering mudslides, before swerving to the Pacific Ocean. Elsewhere in

The Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO), an institution which attempts to predict the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize each year, has said that Pope Francis and Edward Snowden are among the best bets to secure this year’s Nobel

Until now, a common understanding of the details surrounding Iranian Dr. Ardeshir Hosseinpour’s death was that he was reportedly assassinated in 2007, and presumably at the hands of Israel, which had hoped to slow-down Iran’s nuclear program through clandestine operations.

(AFP) — An ancient contact sport rooted in Indian mythology and said to date back 5,000 years, “kabaddi” is proving a knockout at the Asian Games as its popularity spreads. Fans in South Korea enthusiastically turned out to watch the

On Saturday, we reported that journalist and former sex worker Brooke Magnanti, who shot to fame under the pen name Belle de Jour, had been accused of sockpuppeting by London barrister Anya Palmer. Now allegations have surfaced that Magnanti plagiarised

KISO, Japan (AP) — Five more bodies were found near the summit of a Japanese volcano on Monday, bringing the total presumed dead to 36, police said, as toxic gases and ash from the still-erupting mountain forced rescue workers to

TOKYO (AP) — Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local government and police said. Nagano prefecture posted on its website that about

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Tuesday for North Korea to shut down its “evil system” of prison camps. Kerry spoke at a gathering of foreign officials and activists to draw attention to the findings