News Headlines - 12 March 2021
▽Japan to Revoke Tohokushinsha's Broadcasting License - JIJI PRESS
The Japanese government will revoke the satellite broadcasting license of Tohokushinsha Film Corp., communications minister Ryota Takeda said Friday.
Tohokushinsha applied for the license based on false information in which the company failed to recognize its violation of the broadcasting law, Takeda told a press conference.
The government will cancel the license after conducting a hearing with Tohokushinsha under the administrative procedure law.
The "3.11 Declarations" were issued at the "Global Conference for a Nuclear Free, Renewable Energy Future: 10 Years Since Fukushima" held by the Federation of Promotion of Zero-Nuclear Power and Renewable Energy at the Parliamentary Museum in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.
Former prime ministers Morihiro Hosokawa, Tomiichi Murayama, Junichiro Koizumi, Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan signed and released their declarations during the conference. Among them, Koizumi, Hatoyama and Kan took to the podium and shook hands.
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has left reporters stunned by interrupting his own media conference to spray them with hand sanitiser in a bid to dodge some tough questions.
Mr Prayuth became frustrated on Tuesday when asked about a list of potential candidates for vacant cabinet posts.
It follows last week's jailing of three of his ministers for insurrection during protests seven years ago.
▽Sputnik V doses produced in Italy to hit the market no earlier than late 2021 - TASS
Doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine produced at the Adienne Pharma & Biotech plant in northern Italy will be available on the market no earlier than late 2021, Antonio Francesco Di Naro, President of Adienne Pharma & Biotech company with the headquarters in Lugano, told TASS on Friday.
▽Poland to ban gays from adopting, even as single parents | Reuters
People living in same-sex couples will be barred from adopting children in Poland even as single parents, under a new law announced on Thursday by a nationalist ruling party which has made anti-gay policies a major part of its governing platform.
The announcement is likely to intensify a clash between Poland and the European Union over LGBT rights, which the EU says must be respected in all member states, but which Poland calls a threat to its Roman Catholic culture and a purely domestic issue.
