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Britain’s and Italy’s defense ministers – Ben Wallace and Guido Crosetto – travel to Tokyo on Thursday to meet their Japanese colleague Yasukazu Hamada, Reuters writes.

The three countries announced last December that they had entered into a collaboration to develop new battle plans until 2035. A project to be discussed during the meeting.

Two men have been hit by shots and taken by ambulance to hospital, the police write on their website. A large number of units are searching for the perpetrator.

The police have opened a criminal investigation with the heading attempted murder.

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The trend of “sushi terrorism” spread like wildfire on TikTok a month ago, where guests at Japanese sushi restaurants, among other things, licked pieces of sushi and left cigarette butts among the ginger.

– We consider this series of disruptive actions to be a serious matter that shakes the very foundations of the food industry,” said Mayumi Hayashi, spokesperson for Food & Life to Japan Times

Now, several sushi chains are taking steps to address the problems. Among other things, Kura Sushi has installed cameras that will identify sushi terrorists with the help of AI.

– We are making changes to have a tamper-proof system,” says Akihiro Tsuji, spokesperson for Kura Sushi.

– Conveyor belt sushi is, in a sense, a form of entertainment, and that sense of fun is something we want to preserve.

North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over the Sea of ​​Japan, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.

The postponement comes a day after South Korea began a joint military exercise with the United States.

Several people have been injured after being hit by a pickup truck in Quebec, Canada, reports say CBC.

According to the CBC, at least six people are said to be injured.

The driver has been arrested.

The international community and the Syrian government did not act quickly enough to help victims of the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria last month, according to a UN-backed commission.

In total, more than 50,000 people died in the earthquake, of which over 6,000 of them were in Syria. The commission now states that it took a full week for the UN and President Bashar al-Assad to agree to open border crossings in the rebel-held region bordering Turkey.

– Since the earthquake happened, we have seen many Syrians who did what they could on their own to help those who fell victim. At the same time, we witnessed a total failure by the government and the international community to urgently provide life-saving aid to northwestern Syria, Commissioner Paulo Pinheiro said at a press briefing in Geneva.

The US government has approved the Willow oil venture in Alaska. This allows the oil giant Conoco Phillips to drill for oil in three locations on a federally owned area in western Alaska, TT reports.

The project is described as the largest in the area in decades. And could produce upwards of 180,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years.

However, the project has received strong criticism from several environmental organizations. The emissions of Willow would be equivalent to two million new exhaust cars.

The US central bank, the Federal Reserve (Fed), is to investigate what caused the collapse of the niche Silicon Valley Bank last week when investors withdrew billions of dollars within a few hours. Fox Business reports.

Michael S. Barr, deputy director for regulatory affairs within the framework of the Fed, will lead the investigation.

– The events surrounding Silicon Valley Bank require a thorough, transparent and prompt review by the Federal Reserve, said Fed chief Jerome Powell, according to Fox Business.

The US sells five nuclear-powered submarines to Australia when the Aukus military pact takes real shape, TT reports.

The Aukus military pact takes a step towards closer cooperation when US President Joe Biden receives Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British leader Rishi Sunak in San Diego in the state of California.

The three leaders must agree on how Chinese expansion in the region should be met in the Pacific.

Australia’s purchase of American submarines and the investments surrounding them are expected to cost 368 billion Australian dollars over the next 30 years. This corresponds to around SEK 2,600 billion.

Women across Iran are taking off their hijabs in protest against the regime, reports say NPR.

– They have to get used to the fact that we women have our own freedom, says Niloufar, 24, to NPR.

The protests gained momentum after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being arrested by morality police for wearing her headscarf “incorrectly”.

On signs around galleries and in restaurants, there are signs that women should keep wearing their hijab.

But according to Niloufar, nobody has stopped her recently to ask her to wear it.

– Not since the protests, she says.

The pension company Alecta knew that Silicon Valley Bank had problems, says Alecta’s CEO Magnus Billing i Current.

– We have of course had a close dialogue with SVB and have also drawn attention to these things with withdrawals increasing, that the investments in long-term fixed income securities have affected the liquidity in the company. We thought that the action plan presented by the company was good.

But according to Magnus Billing, the bank chose to do something different than what they presented to the owners when it came down to it.

– Then the company chose, for reasons I do not know, to go out and do another type of action by selling securities and going out with an issue to the market without having guaranteed it with investors. I think that was a big mistake.