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TOKYO: Foreign tourists coming to Japan hit a new record in March despite another huge drop in Chinese visitors as well as a fall in those from the Middle East, official data showed Wednesday (Apr 15).The number of international visitors was 3.6 million, up 3.5 per cent year-on-year, a new record for the month, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.Chinese visitors dropped 56 per cent to 291,600 – Beijing warned people from visiting last year – while those from the Middle East fell 30 per cent to 16,700 because of the Iran war.The JNTO said the total number of…

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Dr. Erica Schwartz has emerged as the White House’s top pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to current and former officials. Schwartz, a Coast Guard rear admiral, served as deputy Surgeon General in the first Trump administration.Schwartz spent 24 years in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She is a graduate of Brown University’s medical school and has a law degree from the University of Maryland.This is a developing story and will be updated. In:

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Deputies in Los Angeles have arrested a 36-year-old Arizona man they say was running through traffic near the Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California — while carrying a loaded rifle painted to look like a toy inspired by The Joker character from “Batman” and wearing a heavy-duty ballistic vest.Witnesses reported seeing the man, identified as Sean Steiner of Glendale, Arizona, hiking in the area with a duffel bag, a step stool and a rifle, before he allegedly ran into traffic on Palos Verdes Drive South around 5 p.m. on…

The City of Ottawa says more drivers are speeding in school zones five months after the Ontario government shut off automated speed enforcement (ASE) cameras. A new report for the city’s public works and infrastructure committee cites preliminary data showing that speeding is up at locations where the cameras were installed.Staff note the findings do not factor in signage the province has ordered to replace those cameras; those signs are still being installed, the report added.“Based on data from the original pilot cameras, driver compliance with posted speed limits showed sustained and continuous improvement year over year. From 16 per…

Continuing his whirlwind tour of Africa, Pope Leo chose not to comment on US President Trump’s latest criticisms, saying the world wants to hear about peace.

But Yoes noted that Prabowo had, on Mar 13, accused observers of being unpatriotic and alleged that they gained financially by criticising the government, reported The Jakarta Post.“Some observers simply don’t want their own government to succeed due to various motivations. I’d say they are narrow-minded, not patriotic,” Prabowo said at a Cabinet meeting, without naming the observers.“When the time comes, we will put them in order,” he was quoted as saying by The Jakarta Post.Yoes added: “The cost of voicing criticism is becoming increasingly high, as seen in recent attacks on activists.” He was referring to an acid attack last month…

Three years into its civil war, Sudan has become unrecognisable with more than 40,000 people killed, about 14 million of its people – a quarter of the population – forced to flee their homes and civilian infrastructure across the country extensively damaged.“We are not just facing a crisis – we are witnessing the systematic erosion of a country’s future,” Luca Renda, the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP’s) resident representative in Sudan, told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listA report by the UNDP and the Institute for Security Studies lays out the scale of Sudan’s economic collapse since…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, revealed that he would “welcome” a discussion with Pope Leo XIV amid the administration’s ongoing spat with the Vatican over disagreements on immigration policy and the Iran conflict.Differing from Vice President JD Vance, who said that “in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality,” Homan said he is “open to discussion with any of them.”Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Homan, a “lifelong Catholic,” said, “I wish they’d stay out of immigration, they don’t know what…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Chinese researcher was sentenced to more than four months in prison after pleading guilty to smuggling Escherichia coli (E. coli) into the United States, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.Youhuang Xiang, 32, a former Indiana University postdoctoral researcher and Chinese national, admitted to concealing E. coli DNA in a shipment from China that was falsely labeled as women’s underwear, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana.Prosecutors said the FBI also uncovered evidence that Xiang was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and had lied about that affiliation…