08.03.2025 8:2408.03.2025 8:33 The Vatican has sent a letter to a Japanese man acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in a retrial, expressing the pope's joy over the freedom of Iwao Hakamata who spent more than four decades on death row.
"His Holiness Pope Francis was pleased to be informed about your acquittal," according to the letter written on behalf of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Hakamata, 88, was baptized as a Catholic in 1984 while in detention and attended a Mass held by the pontiff at Tokyo Dome in 2019.
Read full story here08.03.2025 8:36 Nagasaki University in southwestern Japan and a local systems development company have unveiled an artificial intelligence program that lets medical students practice interviews with virtual patients on a screen.
The development comes as regional universities struggle to secure simulated patients, who require training to accurately reproduce symptoms of real cases, the university said, amid population declines in many of Japan's local areas.
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The members also agreed to hold in late 2026 their first conference aimed at reviewing the implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which took effect in 2021.
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The Vatican has sent a letter to a Japanese man acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in a retrial, expressing the pope's joy over the freedom of Iwao Hakamata who spent more than four decades on death row.
"His Holiness Pope Francis was pleased to be informed about your acquittal," according to the letter written on behalf of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Hakamata, 88, was baptized as a Catholic in 1984 while in detention and attended a Mass held by the pontiff at Tokyo Dome in 2019.
Read full story here
Nagasaki University in southwestern Japan and a local systems development company have unveiled an artificial intelligence program that lets medical students practice interviews with virtual patients on a screen.
The development comes as regional universities struggle to secure simulated patients, who require training to accurately reproduce symptoms of real cases, the university said, amid population declines in many of Japan's local areas.
Read full story here
The judgment was issued in a case brought by the Missouri attorney general. The Chinese government did not respond to the claims in court.
Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey asked people to “please pray” for the officers, who were shot around 6:30 p.m. Friday.
In a court filing, two top officials released prosecutors’ internal messages in a further attempt to discredit the case against the mayor of New York.
Myanmar’s long-promised general elections will take place in December or January next year at the earliest, junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said at a state-level meeting in Minsk, the latest effort by the military government to retain power and earn legitimacy.
Indian billionaire Shiv Nadar, who founded HCL Technologies Ltd., has executed gift deeds to transfer his 47% shareholdings in HCL Corp. and Vama Delhi to his daughter Roshni Nadar Malhotra.
The electric car company led by Elon Musk builds all the cars it sells in the United States in California and Texas, shielding it from tariffs that could devastate competitors.
From beaches to hilltops, young people are driving a boom in literary events as they read more in India’s dozens of native languages.
It remains to be seen how far President Trump’s embrace of Russia and abandonment of traditional allies will go. But “the West” may be gone.
Russia has retaken about two-thirds of the territory Ukraine seized last summer in the Kursk region of Russia, but at a fearful cost in lives.
Beijing, which set steep duties on canola, peas and pork, wants Canada and Mexico to resist U.S. pressure to raise tariffs on Chinese goods.
The states parties of a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty on Friday adopted a declaration affirming the existential threat nuclear weapons pose to humanity and pursuing the eradication of such weapons.
The members also agreed to hold in late 2026 their first conference aimed at reviewing the implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which took effect in 2021.
Read full story here
Euro-zone inflation is more likely to get stuck above the European Central Bank’s target than to durably slow, said Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel.
Keir Starmer’s allies argue the crisis into which President Donald Trump has plunged Europe can be the making of the British prime minister. They also say what comes next could just as easily break him.
Lewis (left), 26, a digital video executive, meets Max, 23, a business management traineeWhat were you hoping for?
To meet someone nice, and if it seems like there’s a mutual interest there, to try not to laugh it off, but go ... ... 
I am ill and miserable and facing a weekend where neither is permitted – but at least it’s got me out of doing any cookingI have a cold, which has given me a fuzzy head, watering eyes and a determination to be very poor company. ... ... 
Exclusive: More than a dozen authorities have bought more than 850 properties in English towns and cities since 2017London councils and housing companies they own have spent more than £140m buying up homes to relocate homeless ... ... 
In these novels, the heroes are – to borrow a term from the fandom – cinnamon rolls: soft-hearted, sweet and, yes, deliciousFeyre Archeron has many talents: she can skin a wolf and track a deer, and in the words of an amorous ... ... 
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Twelve people were injured in a shooting at a Toronto pub Friday night, police said.
There is no such thing as energy transition. There is only energy addition.