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A possible option for a female heir is Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito. The 23-year-old princess is popular with the Japanese public and in a direct line of descent, but the law bars her from becoming an empress. “She is accepted as a possible successor to the throne. Almost 80 per cent of (Japanese) people favour the option,” said Daisaburo Hashizume, a specially appointed professor at Shizenkan University.  “(But) there’s a hard line to pass through because very conservative loyalists are against the change of the Imperial House Law.”  The clock is ticking. If Princess Aiko marries, she…

Five weeks ago, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, delivered a routine speech blasting the “hegemonic, egoistic” United States at the helm of the “collective West.” The worldview of the 74-year-old veteran diplomat has since undergone some head-spinning changes.In an interview on Russian state television on Sunday, Mr. Lavrov listed the ills that Europe — not America — had brought upon the world. The United States, in his telling, had gone from evil mastermind to innocent bystander.“Colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler,” Mr. Lavrov said. “If we look at history in retrospect, the Americans did…

President Trump announced the capture of a top leader of the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan who helped plan the 2021 attack on the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members and dozens of other people.“We have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice,” Mr. Trump said during his address to Congress on Tuesday.Current and former officials said the United States had provided intelligence to Pakistan that led to its capture of the leader, Mohmmad Sharifullah, who helped plot…

In the days immediately preceding his address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Trump took a chain saw to government agencies, initiated a trade war, cut off arms to Ukraine and sided with a brutal authoritarian, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.But a visitor arriving from a distant planet who listened to Mr. Trump’s address before an audience of enthusiastic Republicans and dejected, powerless and angry Democrats would not have sensed the scale and intensity of the disruption of the past 44 days and the deep concerns it has produced.While Mr. Trump resurrected familiar arguments from his campaign rallies to…

A restaurant in the eye of a cyclone is losing tens of thousands of dollars after being forced to close but the bill may soar depending on flood or wind damage.

KUALA LUMPUR: From next year, foreigners from 63 countries will be able to enter Malaysia using just QR codes without the need to show their passports, in an expansion of a pilot programme that has seen quicker clearance of passengers at its main international airports. Malaysia Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail confirmed this on Tuesday (Mar 4) in reply to a question in parliament. “For now, we plan that starting Jan 1, 2026, all travellers from 63 countries including long-term pass holders, will be allowed to use the QR code system,” said Saifuddin, adding that the system utilises artificial intelligence,…

NewsFeedIn a speech to the US Congress, President Donald Trump said he received a letter from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stating that he’s ready for talks with Russia and to sign an agreement on minerals.Published On 5 Mar 20255 Mar 2025

Georgia’s Senate passed two bills to ban most gender-transitioning treatment for minors and inmates in state prisons, with some Democrats joining Republicans in supporting the measures.Lawmakers voted 34-19 on Monday for a bill to ban most gender-transitioning treatments, including puberty blockers, for anyone under the age of 18, even for people already on treatment. In 2023, the state banned most gender-transitioning surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender children unless they were already receiving treatment.”You’re asking [minors] to make changes that will have changes to the rest of their lives,” GOP Sen. Ben Watson, the bill’s sponsor, said Monday. “It…

Anti-Israel protests broke out at Barnard College last week, and Columbia associate professor Shai Davidai is calling out students and faculty members.”These protests that we saw two days ago, the violent taking over of a hall at Barnard, it’s one of the same protests that started on Oct. 12, 2023,” Davidai told Fox News Digital. “Hate doesn’t go away on its own. Extremism doesn’t go away on its own. If you don’t deal with it, it stays around.”The most recent protests were in response to the expulsion of two students who allegedly barged into a Columbia University classroom in January…

Travis Hunter, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, is facing some pushback over his response to a question about the difficulty of being a two-way athlete. Former NFL stars and current podcast co-hosts Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson were among those who shared criticism after learning Hunter said that playing both offense and defense in football was more challenging than hitting and pitching in baseball like Shohei Ohtani has done so successfully.During last week’s NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Hunter was asked if being a two-way football player was more challenging than throwing from an MLB pitching mound every five days while…