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Is Kishida walking back Japan's aggressive anti-China policy?

Newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave his inaugural policy speech on Friday. While touching upon the differences Japan has with China, Kishida took a

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America's aimless war in Afghanistan: One of the greatest failures of American leadership

The war on terror was supposed to root out terrorism, but the world is more unsafe and volatile than it was before 9/11. Now after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan,

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (Sep.25 - Oct. 01)

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | Trump operation repl

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UEFA ends controversial Super League legal fight against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus

UEFA has dropped its legal case against Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid over their roles in initiating the controversial European Super League (ESL) project, which

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The good and bad in Germany's election

First, the bad news. In Germany's federal election, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) suffered losses, but still polled in excess of 10 percent. Despite const

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U.S. Central Command chief takes full responsibility for attack killing 10 Afghan civilians

Commander of the U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said Tuesday he took full responsibility for the August 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians."W

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U.S. Central Command chief takes full responsibility for attack killing 10 Afghan civilians

Commander of the U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said Tuesday he took full responsibility for the August 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians."W

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APD | Pakistan exposed Indian War crimes and human rights violations

Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University o

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Speech recognition works for kids, and it’s about time

Speech recognition technology is finally working for kids.That wasn’t the case back in 1999, when my colleagues at Scholastic Education and I launched a reading intervention program called READ 180. W

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Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation

Francophone Africa has its first unicorn, and if you’ve been following tech on the continent, you will be very unsurprised to hear that it’s coming from the world of fintech.Wave, a U.S. a

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Trudeau's early Canada election call backfires, polls suggest

Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes an announcement inside the Sunwing Airlines hangar during his election campaign tour in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, September 3, 2021. /Reut

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Trudeau's early Canada election call backfires, polls suggest

Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finds himself behind in polls ahead of a snap election he called hoping his management of the COVID-19 crisis would prope

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Putin on Afghanistan, says democracy can't be imposed by force

Democracy can't be imposed by force in Afghanistan, Russian PresidentVladimirPutin told the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Friday.Putin said the western way of so-called "civilization" of o

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China promotes international cooperation in drug control

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of drug overdose deaths in the country reached a record high of 93,000 and about 75 percent of the deaths were caused b

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China opposes so-called 'EU-Taiwan relations'

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee on Thursday expressed firm opposition to the so-calle

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HomeLight closes on $100M Series D at a $1.6B valuation as revenue surges

HomeLight, which operates a real estate technology platform, announced today that it has secured $100 million in a Series D round of funding and $263 million in debt financing.Return backer Zeev Ventu

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Chinese mission opposes so-called 'EU-Taiwan relations'

The Chinese mission to the European Union (EU) Thursday expressed firm opposition to the so-called "EU-Taiwan Political Relations and Cooperation" report adopted by the European Parliament's Committe