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Photo taken from a drone on Aug. 30, 2022, shows a condominium partially destroyed by Russian missiles in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by…

The IFA consumer technology fair opens to the public in Berlin on Sept. 2, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Powerful typhoon Hinnamnor may…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is well-prepared to tackle a possible energy shortage due to Russia’s squeeze on European gas supplies, Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared Tuesday, even as fears grow about the rising prices that will hit consumers…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungryas wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S.…

KYIV (AP) — A team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Monday started its journey to the Zaporizhzhia atomic power plantat the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited mission to inspect crucial safety systems that the world hopes…

Photo taken in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, on Aug. 26, 2022, shows a residential area hit by a Russian attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ----------…

TOKYO (AP) — The brazen assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abewith a handmade gun shocked a nation unused to high-profile political violence.But there has been another surprise in the weeks since the murder as…

Candles are lit at a park in the western Japan city of Hiroshima near the site of 2014 mudslides that claimed 77 lives, on Aug. 20, 2022, the eighth anniversary of the tragedy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the…

MOSCOW (AP) — A key Russian natural gas pipeline will shut down for three days of maintenance at the end of this month, the state-owned energy company Gazprom announced Friday, raising economic pressure on Germany and other European…

Children gather at the Temple of Confucius in China's Qufu, the birthplace of the founder of Confucianism, on July 29, 2022. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo…