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NIIGATA, Japan -- Rice cracker exports from Japan have been rising, helped by growing recognition overseas that they are relatively healthy snacks. Th

Niger is the last bastion of human rights in the Sahel, writes the ousted president in the Washington Post – and calls for help for his country. The democratically elected Bazoum was arrested last week in Niger by officers of the presidential guard and declared disempowered. The coup plotters suspended the constitution and dissolved all constitutional institutions. The military junta has also announced the termination of the mandates of Nigerien ambassadors in four countries. The Economic Comm...

After the coup, the new rulers in Niger stopped military cooperation with the former colonial power France. What will happen to the thousand French soldiers is unclear for the time being. France still has more than 1000,24 troops stationed in Niger, among other things to fight Islamist terrorist militias in the Sahel. France's Foreign Ministry had already announced that the French channels France <> and RFI could no longer be received in Niger. In the West African country, officers of ...

Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the conservative ÖVP wants to enshrine this right in the constitution in the future. A "cash task force" is to drive the project forward, Austrian media report. The right-wing populist FPÖ in particular has stoked fears of an abolition of cash, while the ÖVP has always rejected such fears. The Greens, Nehammer's coalition partner, were apparently not informed about his initiative. The liberal Neos describe the initiative as a "populist sham debate&#...

Rescue operations for migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea do not entail additional migrants, according to a study. Rather, worsening conflicts, natural disasters and rising food prices at home are determining factors for the departure of migrants. The study refutes an argument made by politicians such as Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, who sees bailouts as an additional motivation, a so-called pull factor, for potential migrants. Since 2014, more than 20,000 migrants have lost t...

Myanmar's former head of government, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been in prison since the military coup in 2021. A military junta has sentenced her to more than 33 years in prison. As part of an amnesty for more than 7000,<> prisoners on the occasion of Buddhist Lent, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate is to be pardoned. However, the measure will only apply to some of their alleged offences. More than 3800 people have been killed since the coup.

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The self-proclaimed military government in Niger warns against intervention to restore democracy. The heads of state and government of the 15 members of Ecowas and the representatives of the eight-member West African Economic and Monetary Union and Chad want to discuss how to proceed on Sunday in Abuja in neighbouring Nigeria. France suspends its budget support to the West African country. France is calling for an immediate return to the constitutional order around elected President Mohamed Bazo...

Three Ukrainian drones are said to have reached the Russian capital. Again, there is a civilian casualty in Ukraine after a Russian missile attack. And: Kiev announces advance near Bakhmut. The façade of two office buildings in the "Moscow City" business district was damaged, including the 50-storey "IQ Kwartal building", which houses the offices of three Russian ministries. A total of three drones were shot down, the Russian Defense Ministry said, according to a report by the s...