MOSCOW (AP) – The Russian military on Tuesday announced the deployment of state-of-the-art air defense missiles on the Pacific islands claimed by Japan. Russia’s Eastern Military District said in a statement that S-300V4 air defense missile systems have entered combat duty on the Kuril Islands, adding a punch to previously …
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TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s economy shrank in April-June at an annual rate of 27.8%, the worst contraction on record since the coronavirus pandemic hit consumers and traders, according to government data released Monday . The Cabinet Office reported that Japan’s preliminary seasonally adjusted real gross domestic product, as GDP, the …
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President Donald Trump announced Monday night that the ‘1917 ‘flu pandemic ended World War II, misrepresenting both the year the pandemic occurred and the year World War II ended. ‘The closest is in 1917,’ they say, the great pandemic. “It was really a terrible thing where they lost 50 to …
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