‘True horror’: Japan’s Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor campaigns for a nuclear-free world
“What I feel the most about these days is human stupidity,” says 93-year-old Bun Hashizume, from her home in the Japanese temple city of Kamakura.
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“What I feel the most about these days is human stupidity,” says 93-year-old Bun Hashizume, from her home in the Japanese temple city of Kamakura.
The family ducked for cover when junta jets roared over their home in central Myanmar. U Har San and his wife crawled under a table, and their daughter, eight months pregnant, hid under a bed. Bombs rained down, he said, even though no rebel fighters were in their village.
We speak to Bangladeshi youth at the forefront of a movement they say aims to restore trust and hope in the country’s future.
The squeeze on multiple fronts may push them into middle-income status. Currencies such as the yen, the euro, the won and even the New Taiwan dollar have been on trajectories similar to that of a secular bear market.
General Paul LaCamera, commander of US Forces Korea (USFK), on Wednesday stressed the 1953 mutual defence treaty between the allies did not specify a single adversary, adding that his troops were prepared to defend South Korea against “all threats”.
MOSCOW/ANKARA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released by Russia on Thursday as part of the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the end of the Cold War, a complex deal negotiated in secrecy for more than a year.
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her political partners blamed Jamaat-e-Islami, its Islami Chhatra Shibir student wing and other associate bodies for inciting violence during recent student protests over a quota system for government jobs.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh on Thursday banned the Jamaat-e-Islami party, its student wing and other associate bodies, terming the party as a “militant and terrorist” organization as part of a nationwide crackdown following weeks of violent protests that left more than 200 people dead and thousands injured.