# arson • osaka • takami • executed • convicted • japan
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TOKYO (AP) — A man who killed five people by setting fire to a pachinko parlor in 2009 was hanged Friday in Japan's first execution by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi
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New York Post
Japan executes Sunao Takami, man convicted of setting fire that killed 5 at a pachinko parlor in Osaka
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Serbia has struggled for weeks with a wildfire in a unique mixture of sand dunes and woods.
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# detained • chinese • detention • china • american • police
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Chen Yunfei was due to be released from administrative detention in Gansu but was instead taken by Chengdu authorities on alleged national security grounds.
August 22, 2026, 8:27 pm
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A collection of 688 handwritten messages by Mahatma Gandhi, dating from 1944 to 1946, sold at auction in Mumbai for what the auction house called a record price for an Indian historical document
August 21, 2026, 9:41 pm
The Times Of India
Gandhi’s 688 handwritten notes sell for Rs 16.2 crore at auction: The emotional story behind his private words on grief, truth and life
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# imran • pak • khan • hospital • prison • jail
The Times Of India
Imran Khan's kin say Pak govt violated court order for not taking ex-PM to private hospital
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Pakistan News: NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan was shifted back to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi early Friday, hours after he was taken for a medical examinatio.
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A Hong Kong court found two pro-democracy activists who organized annual vigils to mark China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown guilty of “incitement to subversion” on Friday.
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# afghans • taliban • afghanistan • women • enslaving • troops
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Ah, Afghanistan, so easily forgotten, so many reasons, so many promises. So much bullshit. We gave slaves a glimpse of freedom, then slammed the cell doors shut.
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A court on the Indonesian island of Bali has sentenced a Swiss tourist to one year in prison for insulting a sacred Balinese Hindu day.Luzian Andrin Zgraggen was found guilty of violating Indonesia’s new criminal code by posting social media messages...
August 21, 2026, 6:00 pm
The Times Of India
Swiss tourist gets 1-year jail in Bali for mocking Hindu festival, calling tradition ‘crazy’
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HONG KONG (AP) — Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigils in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were convicted Friday for what the government-approved judges ruled was
August 21, 2026, 3:57 pm
Hong Kong convicts Tiananmen vigil activists of inciting subversion
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UK Foreign Office condemns use of national security law to convict activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung
August 21, 2026, 7:30 pm
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# korea • militaries • drill • missile • early • ulchi
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and South Korean militaries wrapped up their annual drill six days earlier than initially scheduled on Friday in a conciliatory gesture toward North
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Amnesty International said they ‘must be released immediately and unconditionally’.
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