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Tokyo's traditional bath houses, with their communal naked tubs, are closing rapidly as the old buildings are sold off to build lucrative apartment blocks. But some sentos, as they are known in Japanese, are finding innovative ways to survive.
Around 20% of small businesses fail in their first year. Here are guidelines for staying afloat, from how to secure funding to investment pitfalls to avoid
Rising inflation worldwide has made nearly everything more expensive - from energy to essential consumer goods. One country hit the hardest by rising prices is Argentina - inflation hit 51% at the end of 2021 and is expected to top 70% by the end of this year. Our correspondents Eléonore Vanel and Nicolas Flon took a look at the different avenues - both legal and illegal - Argentinians are taking to deal with the skyrocketing cost of living.
In the 1970s, Afghanistan's Sikh population numbered 100,000, but decades of conflict, poverty and intolerance have driven almost all of them into exile. Today, just around 140 remain, mostly in the eastern city of Jalalabad and in Kabul.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price announces during his press briefing that the United States will use a military base in Virginia to temporarily house Afghan interpreters fleeing their home country, due to the withdrawal of US forces after 20 years of war. SOUNDBITE
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