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Protesters in Seoul were arrested as they attempted to enter the Japanese embassy
Fukushima: China retaliates as Japan releases treated nuclear water
TOKYO — Japan has begun its controversial discharge of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking protests in the region and retaliation from Beijing.China is the biggest buyer of seafood from Japan, and on Thursday it said it would block all such imports.Japan say the water is safe, and many scientists agree. The UN's nuclear watchdog has also approved the plan.But critics say more studies need to be done and the release should be halted.More than a million tonnes of water stored at the nuclear plant will be discharged over the next 30 years.China, which has been the most vocal of opponents since the plan was announced two years ago, called the water discharge an "extremely selfish and irresponsible act" and said Japan was...
August 24, 2023

Fukushima: China retaliates as Japan releases treated nuclear water

Soon after the touchdown, Isro released an image of the Chandrayaan-3 landing site with one of the four legs of the lander on the right
Chandrayaan-3: India lunar rover Pragyaan takes a walk on the Moon
NEW DELHI — India's Moon rover has taken its first steps on the lunar surface a day after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the south pole.Chandrayaan-3's rover "ramped down" from the lander and "India took a walk on the Moon!", the space agency said.The Vikram lander successfully touched down as planned on Wednesday evening.With this, India joins an elite club of countries to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, after the US, the former Soviet Union and China.The 26kg rover called Pragyaan (the Sanskrit word for wisdom) was carried to the Moon in the Vikram lander's belly.After the dust raised by last evening's landing had settled, panels on one side of Vikram opened to deploy a ramp to enable Pragyaan to slide down to the...
August 24, 2023

Chandrayaan-3: India lunar rover Pragyaan takes a walk on the Moon

Malka Leifer (R) was extradited from Israel to Australia in 2021
Malka Leifer: Israeli ex-principal jailed for sexually abusing Australian students
SYDNEY — An Israeli former principal will spend up to 15 years in jail for sexually assaulting two students at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Australia.Malka Leifer raped and indecently assaulted sisters Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper between 2003 and 2007, a jury found in April.The 56-year-old was found not guilty of abusing a third sister, Nicole Meyer.Leifer's sentencing ends a 15-year push for the mother-of-eight to face justice.She had pleaded not guilty to more than two dozen charges and spent years fighting extradition from Israel. But in 2021, an Israeli judge found she had faked mental illness to avoid facing the courts and ordered she be sent to Melbourne.During a lengthy trial, the jury heard evidence that Leifer had abused the sisters in locked classrooms, on school...
August 24, 2023

Malka Leifer: Israeli ex-principal jailed for sexually abusing Australian students


Chandrayaan-3’s lander touches down on the lunar surface, making India the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the Moon’s south pole. — courtesy ISRO
India makes history as Chandrayaan-3 lands near moon's south pole
NEW DELHI —India has landed its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon, becoming only the fourth nation ever to accomplish such a feat.The mission could cement India’s status as a global superpower in space. Previously, only the United States, China and the former Soviet Union have completed soft landings on the lunar surface.Chandrayaan-3’s landing site is also closer to the moon’s south pole than any other spacecraft in history has ventured.The south pole region is considered an area of key scientific and strategic interest for spacefaring nations, as scientists believe the region to be home to water ice deposits.The water, frozen in shadowy craters, could be converted into rocket fuel or even drinking water for future crewed missions.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, currently...
August 23, 2023

India makes history as Chandrayaan-3 lands near moon's south pole

Government officials sheltered at the government complex after a civil defense siren went off across the country
South Koreans unfazed by first nationwide air raid drill in six years
SEOUL — South Korea's first nationwide air-raid drill in six years has met with a tepid public response, even amid a looming satellite launch by the North.At 2pm local time on Wednesday, vehicles were ordered to pull over and people told to evacuate to air raid shelters during the 20-minute exercise.It is part of wider military exercises aimed at improving the country's response to a North Korean attack.Pyongyang claims it will soon launch a rocket carrying a satellite.The drill, which used to be held annually, was a chance to remind people what to do in the event of an attack from the North.As Pyongyang builds up its arsenal of nuclear weapons, it poses an ever-greater risk to the South. But people here, who have lived with the threat of war for decades, are increasingly...
August 23, 2023

South Koreans unfazed by first nationwide air raid drill in six years

Thailand's new PM Srettha Thavisin will face a challenge in holding the coalition together
Thaksin's return seals grand Thai political bargain
By Jonathan HeadWhen fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra made his dramatic return to Thailand there was one question everyone was asking: how long would he actually spend in jail?Now we know the answer: just over 12 hours.To no one's surprise Thailand's department of corrections said this morning that, in order to monitor a heart condition, Thaksin was whisked to a civilian hospital at midnight.He is expected to stay there, in his own private wing or floor, while he prepares to petition King Vajiralongkorn for a pardon to set aside the eight-year prison sentence on three charges imposed in his absence. This was confirmed by the Supreme Court in Bangkok shortly after his arrival.The end of Thaksin's 15-year-long exile is not an isolated event. It is a part of a...
August 23, 2023

Thaksin's return seals grand Thai political bargain

The xtraordinary rescue caught on camera
'I thought it was over for me', child describes Pakistan cable car ordeal
SINGAPORE — One of the children stuck in a cable car above a ravine in Pakistan has described the ordeal, saying he thought "it was my last day and it was over for me"."When the chairlift was halfway there, its rope broke. It was dangling and I was terrified," Attaullah Shah said.All eight people were eventually saved in an operation lasting over 12 hours.A military chopper rescued one trapped child, while zip line experts recovered the rest of the group after dark.The group had been on their way to school when two of the car's cables snapped.It was left hanging precariously 274m (900ft) above the ground and in high winds."It was like doomsday for the area," said Fahim Udin Shah, the uncle of one of the rescued children."Everyone rushed out of their...
August 23, 2023

'I thought it was over for me', child describes Pakistan cable car ordeal

The collapse of the under construction bridge in the town of Sairang, Mizoram state resulted in multiple deaths, officials said.
At least 17 killed as under construction bridge collapses in northeast India
NEW DELHI — More than a dozen workers have been killed after a bridge under construction collapsed in northeast India Wednesday, the latest in a string of infrastructure failures that have resulted in multiple deaths in the country.The collapse of the bridge in the town of Sairang, Mizoram state, killed at least 17 people and injured several others, according to its chief minister, Zoramthanga, who goes by one name.Video and photos posted by Zoramthanga to Twitter, now known as X, show the broken structure laying on the ground, with a thick plume of dust and smoke billowing in the air.“Deeply saddened and affected by this tragedy,” he wrote. “I extend my deepest condolences to all the bereaved families and wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.”Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...
August 23, 2023

At least 17 killed as under construction bridge collapses in northeast India

Taliban fighters on patrol during celebrations marking its second anniversary of its recapture of Kabul.
Taliban carried out hundreds of extrajudicial killings after seizing power, UN says
KABUL — Taliban fighters have committed hundreds of extrajudicial killings since taking power in Afghanistan in 2021, despite a “general amnesty” meant to protect the previous government, according to the United Nations.In a report released Tuesday, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) counted at least 218 extrajudicial killings among more than 800 alleged offenses, including arbitrary arrests and detention, torture and ill-treatment and enforced disappearances.Former members of the Afghan National Army and police and National Directorate of Security officials were among those most targeted, and the majority of violations took place in the immediate months following the terror group’s takeover on August 15, 2021, the UNAMA said.“The report presents a...
August 23, 2023

Taliban carried out hundreds of extrajudicial killings after seizing power, UN says

A soldier slings down from a helicopter during a rescue mission to recover students stuck in a cable car in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan on August 22.
How Pakistan pulled off a daring rescue act to save school children stuck in cable car
ISLAMABAD — Battling anxiety and nausea, they huddled together in the ruptured cable car, gripped by fear as they dangled precariously hundreds of feet in the air.With little to drink and some of them drifting in and out of consciousness, the six children and two adults endured a 14-hour ordeal stranded above the lush forests of Pakistan’s mountainous northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, their lives hanging in the balance.But their cries for help were answered and late Tuesday, authorities revealed how they painstakingly saved the passengers – one by helicopter and the others via zipline – in a remarkable rescue operation complicated by the weather.“The extremely difficult rescue mission was made more difficult by the strong winds in the area and the dangers involved in such...
August 23, 2023

How Pakistan pulled off a daring rescue act to save school children stuck in cable car

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