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ANDEarlier this week, Jinshiro Motoyama posted a banner outside the office of Japan's prime minister, sat on a folding chair, and stopped eating. It was a dramatic gesture, but the 30-year-old activist believes desperate measures are needed to end the long US military presence in his birthplace, Okinawa.Located roughly 1,000 miles south of Tokyo in the East China Sea, Okinawa is a speck in the ocean that comprises 0.6% of Japan's total land area but hosts about 70% of the US's military bases in Japan and more than half of its 47,000 troops.As the island, the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific war, prepares on Sunday to mark 50 years since it was returned to Japanese sovereignty from postwar US control, Motoyama is in no mood to celebrate.“The Japanese government wants...

AFP Updated:05/14/2022 01:58 a.m. Save Related newsEighteen legislators from the left wing of the United States Democratic Party ask President Joe Biden to lift the sanctions against Venezuela and continue dialogue with the government of Nicolás Maduro, while an influential Republican senator urges the president not to change the policy towards Caracas.In two missives this week, 18 congressmen led by Raúl Grijalva and Jesús 'Chuy' García, and the Republican senator from Florida Marco Rubio, made opposition to the Democratic tenant of the White House.In a letter dated May 10, progressive Democrats assert that punitive measures against Venezuela by the previous Republican administration of donald trump they only served to "exacerbate" the human...

Marc Benioff, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., speaks at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2019. Salesforce's annual software conference, where it introduces new products and discusses its commitment to social causes, was interrupted for the second year in a row by protests against the company's work with the US government.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSalesforce has sold out of the last of its shares in data-analytics software maker Snowflake, according to a regulatory filing on Friday.Salesforce, which makes investments through its Salesforce Ventures unit, still owns a stake in five public companies, including Robinhood and Monday.com, the filing shows. The company had previously unloaded 95% of its Snowflake shares...

Paul MunozFOLLOW, CONTINUE Updated:05/14/2022 01:02h Save RELATED NEWSJuuan Carlos Iglesias Chouzas, 'Gaddafi', is not just another ETA member; he is not even the one who has committed the most murders. But he is the only one who put a sticky bomb in the car of the father of two two-year-old twins, just for being a civil guard. He went there on November 7, 1991 and he knew that the children got into that vehicle every day, because he carried out the necessary surveillance so as not to be discovered and to be able to 'hunt' the victims. The 'gudari' did not shake his pulse. This individual is now acquitted of a case by the National High Court in application of the Atristrain doctrine of the Strasbourg Court.But getting out of a process is ...