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02.05.26 - 04:12
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Car sales surge, SUVs drive growth (Times of India)
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India's passenger vehicle market kicked off the new fiscal year with a robust 27% sales surge in April, reaching approximately 4.5 lakh units. Strong performances from Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors, and Mahindra & Mahindra, fueled by demand for utility vehicles and SUVs, propelled this growth. Despite rising input costs, the industry is experiencing a significant upswing....
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30.04.26 - 19:18
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Zoo Employee Arrested for Allegedly Damaging Wife′s Body (Nippon)
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Sapporo, April 30 (Jiji Press)--Police on Thursday arrested a man for allegedly burning his wife's body in an incinerator at his workplace, Asahiyama Zoo, in the city of Asahikawa in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido. Arrested by the Hokkaido police department was Tatsuya Suzuki, a 33-year-old employee of the Asahikawa municipal government. The zoo, which is very popular, is run......
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28.04.26 - 09:36
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Japan Has Enough Materials for Farm, Food Products: Minister (Nippon)
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Tokyo, April 28 (Jiji Press)--Japan has enough supplies of oil-derived materials used in the agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food industries amid heightened Middle East tensions, agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki said Tuesday. "Quantities are sufficient as a whole in the country" at present, Suzuki said at a press conference, citing surveys of distribution conditions of 57 such item......
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16.04.26 - 15:48
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Japan′s LDP Wants Lower House Panel to Discuss Seat Cut (Nippon)
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Tokyo, April 16 (Jiji Press)--Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party proposed Thursday that a House of Representatives council on the electoral system include a plan to reduce the number of seats in the lower chamber of parliament in future discussions. The LDP's Keisuke Suzuki, who chairs the council, made the proposal at the panel's first meeting since February's election for the lower c......
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13.04.26 - 16:18
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Auto-Industrie: Gewinne der größten Autokonzerne 2025 stark eingebrochen (Manager-Magazin)
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Für viele der größten Autobauer der Welt hat sich ihre bisherige Elektroautostrategie zum Milliardengrab entwickelt. Vor allem deutsche Hersteller verzeichneten im vergangenen Jahr kräftige Einbußen. Am profitabelsten arbeiteten die Japaner... --- Beim Umsatz konnten die Autobauer der Studie zufolge insgesamt leicht um 0,6 Prozent zulegen. Die deutschen Hersteller stachen hier jedoch mit einem Minus von 4,1 Prozent negativ heraus. Zum Vergleich: Japanische Hersteller legten um 3 Prozent zu, chinesische Autobauer gar um 9,3 Prozent. US-Hersteller verzeichneten einen Rückgang von 0,6 Prozent.. --- Gall erwartet allerdings auch keinen durch hohe Spritpreise verursachten Elektro-Boom: „Der eine oder andere Autokäufer wird sich nun doch eher für das Elektroauto entscheiden – einen echten Boom wird es aber nicht geben.“ Vielmehr würden viele Menschen angesichts geringerer verfügbarer Einkommen und düsterer Konjunkturaussichten den Autokauf vertagen..
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13.04.26 - 15:06
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Gunfire Strikes Sam Altman′s San Francisco Home Days After Molotov Cocktail Attack (ZeroHedge)
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Gunfire Strikes Sam Altman's San Francisco Home Days After Molotov Cocktail Attack
Just two days after a Molotov cocktail was hurled at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Russian Hill residence in San Francisco, another violent episode unfolded at the same address. Early Sunday morning, April 12, 2026, San Francisco police responded to reports of possible shots fired near Altman's home.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home, as seen from Chestnut Street, was the target of an incendiary device Friday morning. On Sunday, two people were detained after possible shots were fired near the home. Lea Suzuki/S.F. Chronicle
Around 3 a.m. on Sunday, April 12, officers responded to a report of possible gunfire in the 2000 block of the Russian Hill neighborhood. Surveillance footage and security reports indicated a Honda sedan drove past Altman's property; the passenger extended an arm from the window and fired one round toward the Lombard Street side of the residence. The vehicle fled, but its license plate was captu...
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12.04.26 - 04:12
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Does Altman Molotov Attack Portend Pitchforks Over AI? (ZeroHedge)
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Does Altman Molotov Attack Portend Pitchforks Over AI?
Things might be going kinetic in the backlash against data centers and AI.
On Friday, a 20-year-old suspect set on burning down OpenAI headquarters was charged and arrested following a predawn Molotov cocktail attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home on Russian Hill in San Francisco, whose driveway is shown Friday, was the target of an incendiary device, police said.
Lea Suzuki/S.F. Chronicle
Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, 20, from Texas, was arrested and booked into County Jail hours after the incident. He faces multiple felony charges including attempted murder, arson, making criminal threats, and two counts each of possession or manufacture of an incendiary device and possession of a destructive device. He is being held without bail.
"Thankfully it bounced off the house and no one got hurt," Altman wrote in a blog post.
According to police an...
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11.04.26 - 12:48
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Ohtani Breaks Ichiro′s MLB On-Base Streak Record (Nippon)
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Los Angeles, April 10 (Jiji Press)--Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani on Friday extended his on-base streak to 44 games dating back to last season, breaking Ichiro Suzuki's record for the longest such streak by a Japanese player in the U.S. Major League Baseball. Batting as the designated hitter, Ohtani hit a single to right field in the fifth inning of the day's game, fin......
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11.04.26 - 06:48
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Ichiro Honored with Statue at Mariners′ Stadium (Nippon)
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Seattle, April 10 (Jiji Press)--Japanese baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki, the first Asian inducted into the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame, was honored with a statue unveiled at the Seattle Mariners' home stadium on Friday. The statue depicts Ichiro in a familiar pose, with his right hand extended to the pitcher's side. "It is a proof that something of me may remain in people's minds,......
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09.04.26 - 16:36
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Japan Agriculture Minister Inspects Matcha Cafe in Tokyo (Nippon)
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Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--Japanese agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki on Thursday visited Matchamon, a cafe in Tokyo that serves matcha-based drinks, exchanging views with executives of its operator about overseas expansion and impacts on tea production from the ongoing Middle East crisis. The executives said that there have been no problems with raw material procurement. But they adde......
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09.04.26 - 13:36
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Takaichi Mum on Japan Attendance at Nuke Ban Treaty Meeting (Nippon)
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Tokyo, April 9 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday avoided clarifying whether Japan will participate in the November meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Meeting with Takaichi at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui and Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki called for Japan's participation in the confer......
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07.04.26 - 14:48
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LDP Demands Justice Ministry Reconsider Retrial System Reform (Nippon)
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Tokyo, April 7 (Jiji Press)--Former Japanese Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Research Commission on the Judiciary System, demanded Tuesday that the Justice Ministry reconsider its plan to revise the retrial system. The demand reflects objections from within the LDP to a ministry-drafted bill that falls short of calling for a ban on prosecutor......
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