Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi revealed in a post on X that she survives on zero to three hours of sleep per night, and people are reacting. The BBC’s Tokyo correspondent Kurumi Mori explains how this has sparked conversation about Japan’s work culture. Source link
This is foremost in the minds of the adoptive parents in Singapore taking care of the babies. For months they have been on tenterhooks, waiting to find out whether they will get to keep their children. Speaking to the BBC after the verdict, David, the Singaporean parent whom we interviewed previously, said he wanted both…
“There is deep economic dissatisfaction and distress, which has translated into a lack of hope about the future,” Aiyar says. “This could reflect growing exhaustion with a government that has been in power for a long time. Its failure to deliver on the promises it built its reputation on may have reached a tipping point.”…
The US is imposing new tariffs on around 60 trading partners accounting for the vast majority of its imports over claims they failed to properly stop forced labour. The duties, ranging from 10% to 12.5%, target key economic partners – including the UK, China, EU, Canada, Japan and India. They come in on Friday, as…
The school day had begun as usual, Amaineh says. Because it was the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the children gathered inside the prayer hall to recite the Quran, she recalls, before she began teaching her pupils a new letter of the Persian alphabet. But, as the first attacks of the war unfolded across Iran,…
CCTV footage from 20 July showed the moment a leopard entered a liquor store and attacked a salesman in Rajasthan, north western India. Earlier, the animal had already attacked a cleaning worker inside. Afterwards, the leopard hid near the counter so both employees managed to escape. Others helped shut the shop, trapping the leopard inside….
Nicaragua’s government-controlled National Assembly is debating whether to bar opposition parties from running in elections and will vote on the matter in the first week of August. The move comes just days after President Daniel Ortega said that there “will be no more elections for them [the opposition] to try to seize the government, to…
Djouma Bah – who was a social sciences student – had allegedly been caught using his phone during Guinea’s national school-leaving baccalaureate on 15 July, when he was arrested with other students, also suspected of exam fraud. Two days later, he was convicted for cheating and sentenced to six months in prison, five of which…
So what effect is all this having on the wider region? Firstly, it is important to note that two countries previously wracked by ruinous civil wars – Iraq and Syria – are now largely peaceful and stable, at least compared to where they were. The Gaza War is technically in a ceasefire, although Gazans continue…
In a statement sent to journalists on Thursday, Fedorov said his team had a “specific plan how to end the war” when he was appointed defence minister in January. The key elements were the protection of the skies, stabilisation of the front, and also strikes against Russia’s economy, he said. “For six months, we have…