Toyota Motor Corp will suspend operations at all of its assembly plants in Japan from Tuesday afternoon due to a malfunction with its production system, it said, likely bringing domestic output to a standstill for the world's top automaker.
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Rising air pollution can cut life expectancy by more than five years per person in South Asia, one of the world's most polluted regions, according to a report published on Tuesday which flagged the growing burden of hazardous air on health.
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The US, South Korea and Japan staged joint naval missile defence drills as North Korea accused Washington and its allies of creating "the most unstable waters with the danger of a nuclear war."
Talking Points
Florida gunman thwarted at Black college before store shooting
United States ·August 29, 2023 · 2:02 AM UTC A campus police officer chased a white gunman off Florida's first historically Black university a few minutes before the shooter killed three Black people at a discount store, the school's president said Monday, two days after the attack.
