After Israel was not invited to Friday’s Nagasaki memorial observance, Japan’s G7 allies all boycotted the ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in the final days of World War II. “After comprehensively considering the matter, including the risk that an unexpected situation may arise, I made the decision to refrain from inviting the Israeli ambassador,” Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki said, according to Japanese media on Thursday. Suzuki first decided not to invite Israel in July, saying the decision was not politically motivated. He said he feared that protests against the Israel-Hamas war in…
Author: Laura Hülsemann
A man has been sentenced to four months behind bars and a six-year entry ban from Denmark for attacking Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in June. “We have found you guilty of striking the Prime Minister on the right shoulder, knocking the Prime Minister out of place,” the judge said on Wednesday in the Copenhagen District Court ruling, according to Danish media reports. The 39-year-old attacked Frederiksen on a street in Copenhagen on June 7 this year, days before the European Parliament election. Source link