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It was an unfortunate accident. The elementary school wasn't directly hit by the missile but it was located too close to a military facility for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The red cone superimposed over this image shows the estimated area of impact of the missile visible in the...

No war is needed to take down China. Just raise the tariff rate on Chinese imports to 500%. China has become a military threat because the country has become too prosperous after America started trading with China in the 1990s. Trump should reverse what Clinton did on China at the time...

Iranians are happy after Ayatollah Khamenei's death was confirmed. Witnesses reported that loud cheers echoed throughout Tehran, with residents clapping in their windows and playing loud music.

It wasn't an election. Kim Jong-un was reappointed as party general secretary by the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea as expected, while Kim Yo-jong, his sister, was appointed to director from her previous position of deputy director of the communist party. North Korea rarely...

Most of those women who got involved in Epstein's escort business were consenting adults, such as Katherine Keating, who was in her late 20s when she met Epstein. There were only a few teenagers in his social circle who later came forward as innocent victims. Keating’s involvement with Epstein...

This has nothing to do with politics. The Chinese fishing boat was too close to Nagasaki, within 200 nautical miles, and it was duly caught by the country's coast guard. The captain was released after a bond guarantee was provided. Japan remains committed to firm enforcement against illegal...

Stolipinovo (Plovdiv, Bulgaria): Frequently cited as the largest Romani slum in Europe, with estimates of over 70,000 residents. It is described as an isolated area ("a city within a city") with poor living conditions, trash-filled streets, and a high risk for outsiders entering without a guide...

As the world's second largest economy, it has reached a point where the population starts declining sharply. Young Chinese people have a high unemployment rate over 20% and they are less likely to start a family. Child rearing is expensive and burdensome in China. China is one of the most...

Takaichi is a close Trump ally and his X endorsement gave her a big boost. Voters liked her campaign promise to lower the sales tax rate on foods to zero to help struggling families. Japan has been ruled by bald men for too long and her youngish looks are appealing to young voters in their 20s...

The American authors of the Japanese constitution thought that Japan should be completely disarmed, as stipulated in Article 9. What they have now is a large police force to deal with domestic disturbances instigated by left-wing lunatics. But the first female prime minister now has a...

The lack of winter sports in India makes the difference. India sent only two athletes to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, while Estonia has more than 30 Olympic athletes as a snowy Nordic country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia_at_the_2026_Winter_Olympics

It happened to me only once. A showbiz article on Yahoo News mentioned my casual comment on the celebrity's X.

Nothing was stolen from Japan without the seal of approval given by Churchill and Roosevelt at Yalta. The explicit language of the Yalta Agreement gave the Soviet Union a right to the Kurils, and the four northern islets were part of the Kuril. In a way, it was as sordid as the Nazi-Soviet Pact...

Rural Brits can keep them out as long as British farmers can till their land without relying on migrant workers. It's going to be a total disaster, if tens of thousands of migrant workers are imported to help aging rural farmers. I felt safe in Cambridge 'cos I saw only a few black people in...

These Japanese politicians are embarrassingly old-fashioned and imperialistic. The banzai cheer belongs to the bygone era, when the Emperor dissolved the parliament with his edict, going back to 1897. "The Prime Minister has just informed me that an Imperial Rescript has been issued, so I will...