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The administrations of Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures have lodged a protest to Washington over the latter's recent subcritical nuclear experiment at the Nevada National Security Site.

Israel has killed at least 35,303 people — majority of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 79,261 in its 224-day war on Gaza, Palestinian officials say.

In a recent meeting between Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, the Deputy Prime Minister for Political affairs and Mr. Takashi Okada, the Japanese Ambassador in Kabul, discussions centered around the strengthening of positive relations between the two countries and Japan’s commitment to supporting Afghanistan’s progress.

KABUL (BNA) In a recent announcement, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation Affairs confirmed the voluntary and forced return of more than two thousand Afghan migrants from Iran and Pakistan to their home country.

The South Korean government's response to China's forced repatriation of North Korean escapees has seemed somewhat subdued, amid desperate efforts to maintain the cautious improvement of bilateral ties between Seoul and Beijing and eventually pave the way for a long-delayed three-way summit including Japan, anticipated later this month.

An atomic bomb survivor who met world leaders at Hiroshima's peace museum during the Group of Seven summit last year has been awarded an honorary doctorate by an American university.

Mission accomplished: Given China's ambitions, this was probably the dominant feeling in the Chinese presidential plane as it took off from Budapest on Friday, May 10, at the end of Xi Jinping's first tour of Europe in five years. The trip, which took the Chinese president to France, then Serbia and Hungary, principally enabled him to display the commercial and geopolitical objectives of Chinese power, without offering any concessions to the leaders of the European Union.

The Israeli military has ramped up its attacks in Rafah, southern Gaza, and hit Gaza City while crippling humanitarian aid operations across the Palestinian territory as ceasefire talks ended without a deal.

At 3am last Wednesday, as the rain poured down, pro-Palestine students at Bristol University set up an encampment opposite a study centre on campus.

The defense ministers of Japan, the United States and Australia on Thursday signed a cooperation agreement on new technologies including autonomous systems, as they ramp up security ties amid China's military buildup in the Indo-Pacific region.