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Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, is acquitted in Japan following a retrial.
2024-09-26

Moody's Investors Service downgrades the credit rating of the People's Republic of China from AA3 to A1.
2017-05-24

Japan summons China's ambassador, Cheng Yonghua, to Tokyo after a People's Liberation Army Navy warship sailed close to its territorial waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for the first time.
2016-06-9

Fitch Ratings downgrades Japan's credit rating to A over mounting debts.
2015-04-27

For the first time ever, Moody's Investors Service downgrades the United Kingdom's bond credit rating from AAA to AA1.
2013-02-22

Suspected Islamic militants take over a BP facility in In Aménas, Algeria, killing at least 2 workers and taking up to 40 others hostage, including 13 Norwegians, a number of Americans, as well as nationals from Ireland, Japan, France and the United Kingdom. A previously unknown group allied to al-Qaeda's regional branch says the attack is in revenge for Algeria's support of the French operation against Islamic rebels in Mali.
2013-01-16

Moody's Investors Service downgrades the credit ratings of several European Union members including Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain and issues a negative outlook for the ratings of Austria, France and the United Kingdom.
2012-02-13

Moody's credit rating agency downgrades Japan to Aa3 due to weak economic growth prospects and high levels of public debt.
2011-08-24

A United Nations nuclear safety team looking into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster claims that Japan underestimated the potential threat of tsunamis to nuclear power plants.
2011-06-1

Moody's Investors Service cuts the credit ratings of Australia's four major banks, the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, National Australia Bank and ANZ, to Aa1, due to their reliance on wholesale funding.
2011-05-18