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[TOKYO] Japan’s top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said on Tuesday there was no change to Tokyo’s stance of demanding an elimination of US tariffs in bilateral trade negotiations.Tokyo will not rush into clinching a trade deal if doing so risked hurting the country’s interests, he said.“The slew of US tariffs including reciprocal tariffs as well as those on automobiles, car parts, steel and aluminium, are regrettable. There’s no change to our stance of seeking a review, which is to say an elimination, of them,” Akazawa told a regular press conference.Akazawa said the two countries held working-level trade talks in Washington…
South Africa’s government is moving towards easing its black ownership laws in the telecoms sector — a policy change that would smooth the way for Elon Musk’s Starlink to enter the local market. The directive came days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met his US counterpart Donald Trump for tense talks on deteriorating ties between the two countries. Telecoms companies operating in South Africa, including those with foreign investment, are currently required to provide 30 percent equity to historically disadvantaged groups — a policy created to mitigate the legacy of racial inequality left by apartheid. South Africa-born Elon Musk…
Sir Keir Starmer could decide to lift the two-child benefit cap in the autumn budget, amid further pressure from Nigel Farage to appeal to traditional Labour voters.The Reform leader will use a speech this week to commit his party to scrapping the two-child cap, as well as reinstating winter fuel payments in full. The prime minister – who took Westminster by surprise at PMQs by revealing his intention to row back on the winter fuel cut – has previously said he would like to lift the two-child cap if the government could afford it. There are now mounting suggestions an…
UNABLE to travel overseas during the Covid-19 pandemic, Chinese consumers sparked a shopping boom in the southernmost province of Hainan, lured by the tropical island’s plethora of duty-free shopping malls. Fast forward to today and the travel-retail sector in Hainan is in a 14-month slump with little sign of a turnaround. Duty-free sales dropped 10.8 per cent over the first four months of 2025 compared with a year earlier, according to the latest data from the local customs agency. Both the number of shoppers and products purchased declined more than 25 per cent so far this year. Global heavyweights of…
Realme GT 7 series will be launched in global markets in the coming days, and the smartphone brand has already confirmed that all three models in the GT 7 lineup will be available in India. Next week, the brand will introduce the Realme GT 7 and the Realme GT 7T, along with a special version of the former, which is called the Realme GT 7 Dream Edition. With only days left until these handsets are unveiled, Realme has revealed several key specifications of these phones, as well as their design.You don’t have to wait until the Realme GT 7 series…
The NFL world keeps waiting for Aaron Rodgers to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the future Hall of Fame quarterback recently added more credence to the idea that him doing so is inevitable.At a question-and-answer session hosted by rapper Mike Stud, Rodgers was asked whether he’d ever play for the Chicago Bears. Rodgers — who accumulated a combined 24-5 record against the Bears across his 15 seasons as the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers (2008-22) — answered “no” but also that he believes “there’s a team that might play in Chicago this year” on a “road trip.”Outside…
Atlanta Braves’ Ronald Acuña Jr. crushed a home run in his second-straight game vs. the San Diego Padres.
Usually when aliens invade and start doing the whole body snatching thing, they don’t go around telling everyone about it. Anastasia, aka Stasia, Miller seems to have missed that memo. The main character of Mira Grant’s Overgrowth is an infiltrator from a race of plant-like aliens who came to Earth as a seed, stole the body of 3-year-old Anastasia and has been living as her ever since. And that’s pretty much how she introduces herself to everyone she meets. Most people don’t believe her, and she lives a relatively normal life. She grows up to be somewhat awkward and, fittingly,…
Nvidia’s RTX 5060 is finally here, and many people hoped it’d put up a fight against some of the best graphics cards. Does it really, though? Reviewers are split on the matter. Alas, I’m not here to judge the card. I’m here to show you some alternatives. While Nvidia’s xx60 cards typically become some of the most popular GPUs of any given generation, they’re not the only option you have right now. The RTX 5060 might not even be the best option at that price point. Below, I’ll walk you through four GPUs that I think you should buy instead…
The software arm of Capital One has expanded the availability of a tool that enables IT departments to improve their data security using data tokenisation. The business-to-business software division of the financial services company has made its Databolt data tokenisation software available on two major data platforms – Databricks and Snowflake. Capital One describes its implementation of data tokenisation as the process of replacing raw data with a digital representation. In a blog post discussing the benefits of the technology, the company said: “In data security, tokenisation replaces sensitive data with randomised, nonsensitive substitutes, called tokens, that have no…