|  | | | | | | | | | | | | | World | | ‘Places like ours, shops that are right in the middle, we just can’t seem to survive,’ says the chef of Eiraku, the last surviving sushi bar in its neighborhood of Tokyo. The number of independent, family-owned sushi bars in Tokyo has halved to 750 in the last decade, a trade association says. Driven out of business by fast-food joints and a younger generation that doesn’t want to inherit them. | | | | A video purportedly showing the killings of two Scandinavian tourists in Morocco by suspected Islamist State militants is probably authentic, Norwegian police said. “When it comes to the assessment of the video that purportedly shows the killings, there is still a certain amount of technical analysis and assessment to be done,” Norway’s National Crime Investigation Service said in a statement. | | | | Commentary: Much is at stake in Congo's long-delayed election, now postponed until Dec. 30. Yet Washington pays so little attention to this vast, mineral-rich country that National Security Adviser John Bolton didn't mention it when he unveiled the Trump administration's new Africa strategy, writes columnist David A. Andelman.
| | | | | | .@Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been imprisoned in Myanmar for 375 days. Follow updates on the case: https://reut.rs/2CqOTe1 4:04 AM - 21 Dec 2018 | | | United Kingdom | | Russia’s media regulator said it had launched an investigation into the activities of British public broadcaster the BBC, a move it described as a response to pressure being put on a Russian TV channel in Britain. Roskomnadzor, the regulator, said in a statement it was looking into the activities of the BBC World News channel and BBC internet sites to see if they complied with Russian law. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Business | | Japanese prosecutors arrested Nissan Motor’s ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn again on new allegations of making Nissan shoulder $16.6 million in personal investment losses, dashing chances he would be released on bail before Christmas.
5 min read | | | | Since De Beers abandoned its decades-old policy of refusing to sell lab-grown diamonds as jewelery, the price gap between man-made stones and natural gems has widened - and the difference is set to get even bigger.
7 Min Read | | | | Millions of users of Amazon’s Echo speakers have grown accustomed to the soothing strains of Alexa, the human-sounding virtual assistant that can tell them the weather, order takeout and handle other basic tasks in response to a voice command. So a customer was shocked last year when Alexa blurted out: “Kill your foster parents.” 9 min read | | | | | | | | | | | Top Stories on Reuters TV | | | | | | | |
