Ikee earned a spot in the 27-member Japan team after being set to star at the Tokyo Olympics but being diagnosed with leukaemia in 2019.
Fears are rising for patients, medical staff and displaced people inside hospitals.
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical said four deaths were under investigation by the firm and health ministry, with more than 100 other people hospitalised.
In 2018, Lieberman was hired by Chinese telecoms company ZTE as it tried to fend off US national security concerns. He died in New York after complications from a fall, his family said.
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said Premier Li Qiang had promised Beijing would also help the South Asian nation’s debt restructuring process continuously.
Impressionism is 150 years old and to celebrate, the Orsay Museum in Paris invites visitors to travel back to the year the art movement began by putting on virtual-reality headsets.
A report said more than US$1 trillion worth of food was binned by households and businesses at a time when nearly 800 million people were going hungry.
The 31-year-old, who was detained last May when he was with Chinese club Shandong, has made his first public comments since he was reportedly freed.
The critically endangered little lizards are likely to become extinct in the next 20 years without conservation efforts.
Six people were reportedly killed in stampedes and 12 others drowned off the territory’s Mediterranean coast trying to salvage aid packages. Hamas has demanded that Israel allow more aid trucks to enter Gaza instead.
The agency says Covid-19 changed the way young adults behave towards each other.
Dietary supplements meant to lower cholesterol were recalled after kidney complaints from customers. More than 100 people have reportedly been hospitalised.
UK judges delayed decision on Assange’s last-ditch extradition appeal bid amid concerns he could face death penalty in US. Russia’s foreign ministry said UK’s judicial system was a ‘mockery’.
Law mandates provision of panic buttons and requires clubs to have trained security staff. Legislation was crafted with input from Strippers Are Workers, a campaign group that represents sex workers.
DNA identification has been slow, with just 34 of the 429 bodies exhumed between April and October last year positively identified through DNA profiling.
If he eventually loses the appeal bid, the WikiLeaks’ founder will have exhausted all UK appeals and will be set to enter the extradition process.
She cited Tokyo’s lack of ‘courage’ for ‘new’ North Korea-Japan ties, including its stance on the abduction issue and North Korea’s military programmes
The case had drawn a rare royal rebuke from Malaysia’s king who called for an investigation and “strict action” against any party found guilty.
Performers like Medli Dorothea Loo are rare in the mass media of Singapore, where activists say transgender people still face stigma, from job discrimination to family rejection.
With Gazans increasingly desperate, foreign governments have turned to airdrops to meet basic humanitarian needs of people living in the territory.
LA Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani says suggestions he knew about Ippei Mizuhara’s use of illegal bookmaker ‘complete lies’.
Faye’s main opponent from the governing coalition, Amadou Ba, conceded the race and called Faye to offer his congratulations. Official results are expected before the end of the week.
Questions over how Russian security system was unable to thwart deadliest attack on country in 2 decades even as Western counterparts issued warnings 2 weeks ago.
Hundreds of aproned waiters surged through the French capital’s streets, each carrying a tray with a croissant, espresso and glass of water in a bid to win Les Course des Cafes.
‘This is outrageous and makes it intentional to obstruct life-saving assistance during a man-made famine,’ said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency.
Leaked recordings of staff are said to have been edited to suggest human error was exclusively to blame for the 2023 accident that killed 57; opposition parties have vowed to submit a no-confidence vote.
Experts believe Nigeria’s economic crisis is driving a rise in kidnappings, as desperate people turn to crime for income.
Mediators have been engaged in weeks of behind-the-scenes talks over the war that has killed thousands and left many people starving.
A missile launched by Moscow at the Lviv region violated Poland’s airspace, officials said, while Ukraine’s capital Kyiv also came under assault and it said it had hit two Russian ships in Crimea.
Asiatic black bears, as moon bears are also known, are classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of endangered species. Across Asia, thousands are kept as pets or farmed to extract their bile.