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The Nagasaki Municipal Government, which is hosting the city's annual peace ceremony, said it did not extend an invitation to the Israeli ambassador due to security concerns.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2024
Nagasaki peace ceremony overshadowed by diplomatic wrangling
Ambassadors of Group of Seven countries are set to skip Friday’s ceremony after the city’s decision not to invite the Israeli envoy to Japan.
New Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar's ascension to power, combined with Netanyahu’s refusal to agree to a cease-fire unless the group capitulates, makes finding a resolution in Gaza difficult.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2024
New Hamas chief is an arsonist in a desert tinderbox
Yahya Sinwar fills a post that opened with the July 31 killing of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s politburo chairman, while on a visit to Tehran.
Yahya Sinwar, head of the political wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City in April 2022.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2024
Israel vows to eliminate new Hamas leader as Gaza war drags on
Israel's army chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said they would "find him (Yahya Sinwar), attack him" and force Hamas to find another leader.
An employee of Luxor's International Airport stands near an EgyptAir plane in Luxor, Egypt, in 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2024
U.K. and Egypt issue alerts for Iran and Lebanon airspace amid growing risk
Many airlines are revising their schedules to avoid Iranian and Lebanese airspace while also calling off flights to Israel and Lebanon.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (left) attends a U.S.-Japan ministerial meeting on extended deterrence in Tokyo on July 28.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 7, 2024
Top envoys to Japan set to skip Nagasaki A-bomb ceremony after Israel not invited
Nagasaki said it decided not to invite the Israeli ambassador on the basis of security concerns.
The U.S. Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, speaks at Temple University in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 7, 2024
Walz pick shines spotlight on U.S. VP's possible foreign policy role
Walz brings to the table a strong background on China issues as well as a number of foreign policy stances that line up with that of Harris.
Critics say excluding Israel from the Nagasaki bombing anniversary while inviting representatives from countries with human rights violations, such as Iran, which is pursuing its own nuclear weapons, undermines the ceremony's message of peace.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 7, 2024
Nagasaki bombing ceremony misses an important invitation: Israel's
Nagasaki’s Mayor Shiro Suzuki explicitly disinvited Israeli Ambassador to Japan Gilad Cohen to the 79th anniversary of the bombing of the city, citing security concerns.
British Ambassador to Japan Julia Longbottom in Hiroshima on Tuesday
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 7, 2024
British envoy worried about Nagasaki's decision over not inviting Israel to ceremony
British Ambassador to Japan Julia Longbottom has expressed concern that her Israeli counterpart was not invited to a key Nagasaki ceremony.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar looks on as Hamas supporters take part in an anti-Israel rally in Gaza City on Oct. 1, 2022.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2024
Hamas names Oct. 7 mastermind Sinwar as their new leader
For Israel, Yahya Sinwar's appointment confirms Hamas as a foe dedicated to its destruction.
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu
WORLD
Aug 6, 2024
Iranian president, in talks with Putin ally, calls for expanded ties with Russia
Russia's Sergei Shoigu met Iran's president and top security officials as Tehran weighs its response to the killing of a Hamas leader.
A soldier directs Israeli tanks near a border crossing to southern Gaza.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 6, 2024
U.S. and allies make last-minute push to avert full Middle East war
The U.S. conferred with top officials from Qatar and Egypt — the two countries helping lead Israel-Hamas cease-fire negotiations.
U.S. military vehicles at the Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province, Iraq, in 2020
WORLD
Aug 6, 2024
U.S. personnel wounded in attack against base in Iraq, officials say
Two Katyusha rockets on Monday were fired at a military base in western Iraq.
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2024
Israel braces for attack by Iran as U.S. urges Gaza cease-fire
The top U.S. diplomat said Sunday that the exact timing of any attacks remained unclear, but they would likely start within the next 24 to 48 hours.
Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel that were fired from southern Lebanon on Sunday, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2024
Foreign nationals told to leave Lebanon as war fears surge
The nearly 10-month-old war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has led to a violent fallout that has become routine around the region.
Palestinians work to extinguish a fire at the site of an Israeli strike on a tent camp for displaced people in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2024
Israeli strikes Gaza schools and hospital compound after talks fail
Israel says Hamas regularly embeds in civilian institutions, using Gaza's population as human shields, which Hamas denies.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden hold a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on July 25.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2024
Killing of Hamas leader fuels more tension between Biden and Netanyahu
The U.S. president has expressed concern that the assassination has thrown cease-fire talks into doubt, something the Israeli leader rejects.
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air-defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on Sunday, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2024
Fears of Middle East war grow after Hamas leader's killing
The killing this week of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran has triggered vows of vengeance from Iran and the so-called "axis of resistance."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington on July 24.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 3, 2024
Netanyahu, defiant, appears to have gone rogue, risking a regional war
Absent a clear goal in the war, the prime minister's defiance is dividing Israel from its allies and the country itself.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
WORLD
Aug 3, 2024
Pentagon deploying ships and fighters to boost Mideast presence
The moves come as Israel faces threats from Iran to avenge assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.
Israel is engaged not only in fighting real wars but also in ideological conflicts that shape its security, existence and global legitimacy.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2024
Challenged on all fronts: Israel’s five wars
What do those who support Israel's right to self-defense suggest it do to combat an enemy that entrenches itself in hundreds of miles of tunnels beneath civilians?
South Korea's Yoon backs down after parliament rejects martial law
Soldiers try to enter the National Assembly building in Seoul, after South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday evening.
BOJ weighs case for first triple hike since Japan’s bubble burst
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda reiterated in an interview published Saturday that authorities will raise rates if the economy performs in line with projections.
Australian says romance scam tricked her into smuggling drugs into Japan
Donna Nelson says her life was turned upside down when she learned that the man she was falling for had tricked her into smuggling 2 kilograms of methamphetamine into Japan.
Jetstar Japan loses lawsuit over disciplinary action against cabin crew
Jetstar Japan has been ordered to pay back wages to two cabin crew members for the periods they were suspended.
Nomura CEO takes pay cut after former employee charged with attempted murder
Kentaro Okuda, CEO of Nomura Holdings, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
U.S. Space Force launches first unit in Japan
Activated on Wednesday, U.S. Space Forces Japan — a component similar to the one established at South Korea’s Osan Air Base in 2022 — will operate out of Yokota Air Base in the city of Fussa, western Tokyo, with a staff of about 10.
Can Japan's scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
Europe eyes 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine as possible peace deal option
A serviceman with the Ukrainian Army's 24th mechanized brigade fires a machine gun during an exercise, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the country's Donetsk region on Friday.
Seven strangers and an algorithm: Can this new dinner app help you make friends?
Timeleft uses an algorithm to match its users with five or six strangers in an effort to prompt “human connection” over dinner at a restaurant. It determines the attendees with the help of a simple personality quiz available when you sign up for the service.
Don’t worry, you can still use your Japan health insurance card — for now
A My Number card reader at a pediatric clinic in Tokyo. While the government will stop issuing new health insurance cards on Monday, most people will remain unaffected by the move in the short term as existing health insurance cards can still be used for another year.

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