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Calling it a tough decision for his country, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said that phasing out or banning the import of Russian oil due to the ongoing Ukraine conflict will "take time" and that Tokyo has no plans as of now to back out from large oil and gas extraction projects with Moscow in the Russian Far East. Kishida made the comment in Tokyo on Monday morning, only a few hours after attending the Group of Seven (G7) Summit video conference which lasted for about 70 minutes from midnight (Japan time).   The meeting was held at the behest of Germany, which holds the G7 presidency this year, and was attended by the leaders of G7 countries and also the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In a joint statement released today, the G7 leaders committed to phase out dependency on Russian energy, including by phasing out or banning the import of Russian oil in "timely and orderly fashion", and in ways that provide time for the world to secure altern

The space dagger -- made with meteorites’ rocks -- entombed with King Tutankhamen has always been an enigma for historians and archaeologists. Now a new study brings to the fore several interesting aspects about this captivating artefact says a report in sciencealert.com. Using modern scientific tools like high-resolution photography and X-rays for analysis has unveiled the type of meteorite used to make the dagger and how it was made. Interestingly, the research also suggested that the dagger may not have been made in Egypt and was gifted to King Tutankhamen or one of his ancestors. Also read:  Ancient Egyptians celebrated peace and prosperity of King Amenhotep III in grand style Sharing details of the study, Tomoko Arai, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan’s planetary scientist told Gizmodo: "To understand the manufacture and origin of the dagger, we conducted on-site non-contact, non-destructive two-dimensional chemical analysis for the dagger. We noticed a cross-hatched text

  Monkeys, humankind’s closest relative, have always impressed with their intelligence and ingenuity and yet another example of this has come to light through a recent study. Inhabiting one of the globe’s coldest areas in Japan, snow monkeys have managed to live and survive the harsh winter by “going fishing”, that is lifting out creatures alive, including the brown trout, out of rivers of Japan and consuming them alive, states this new study. Native of the main Japanese islands, except Hokkaido, the snow monkey or the Japanese macaque Macaca fuscata is the non-human primate living most northerly. With the Kamikochi area of Chubu Sangaku National Park located in the Japanese Alps covered in snow, these creatures are confronted with scarcity of their preferred food. Also read: Vulture bees of Costa Rica feast on meat Faced with such adverse conditions, the monkeys running low on energy are bound to die of starvation but the streams that are fed by groundwater with a constant temperatur