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Top Fuji TV executives in Japan resign over sex scandal | Sexual Assault News

Top Fuji TV executives in Japan resign over sex scandal | Sexual Assault News

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Chairman and president step down to take responsibility for a widening sex assault scandal linked to celebrity host. Japan’s Fuji Media says its chairman and the head of its TV unit will step down immediately amid a probe into alleged sexual misconduct by a celebrity TV host. Chairman Shuji Kano and television President Koichi Minato called it quits on Monday, weeks after host Masahiro Nakai was accused of sexual assault, causing a public relations storm and mass exit of advertisers. The 52-year-old Nakai reportedly later paid the woman 90 million yen ($580,000) and the pair signed a non-disclosure agreement. While Nakai has worked for many of Japan’s TV networks, the dinner at which the incident occurred was reportedly arranged by one of the broadcaster’s executives. One of the magazines, Shukan Bunshun, also reported the same executive had in a separate event gathered female TV personalities at a hotel to act as entertainment for Nakai and other celebrities. Dozens of brands, including McDonald’s and Toyota, pulled their advertisements from the private broadcaster after staff were accused …

Australia beat India by 10 wickets in Adelaide Test to level series 1-1 | Cricket News

Australia beat India by 10 wickets in Adelaide Test to level series 1-1 | Cricket News

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Hosts level 1-1 on the third day after India slump to 175 all out in the second of the five-match Border-Gavaskar series. Pat Cummins’s first five-wicket haul at the Adelaide Oval has led Australia to a comprehensive 10-wicket win in the second Test against India, helping the hosts level the five-match series at 1-1. The Australian skipper took 5-57 as he bounced out the Indian lower order on Sunday, with the visitors crashing to 175 all out in their second innings for a slender 18-run lead. Resuming at 128-5 in the second innings, India needed a near-miracle from Rishabh Pant to have any hope of setting a testing fourth innings target for Australia to chase. But Mitchell Starc had other ideas, as he had Pant (28) caught at slip from the sixth delivery of the afternoon. Cummins then got into the act using the short ball tactic against the Indian lower order to great effect. Ravichandran Ashwin (7) was caught behind trying to pull, while Harshit Rana (0) could not fend off a rising delivery …

South Korea’s President Yoon declares emergency martial law | News

South Korea’s President Yoon declares emergency martial law | News

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South Korea’s president has declared emergency martial law, accusing the opposition of antistate activities. Entrance to the National Assembly was sealed on Tuesday and parliamentarians were barred from entering the building, according to local news outlet Yonhap. While making the announcement in a late-night televised address, President Yoon Suk-yeol said he will rebuild a free and democratic country through martial law. “To safeguard a liberal South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea’s communist forces and to eliminate antistate elements … I hereby declare emergency martial law,” Yoon said in a live televised address. “This is an unavoidable measure to ensure the freedom and safety of the people and guarantee the sustainability of the nation against the unrest stirred by these subversive, antistate elements. “The National Assembly has also completely cut budgets essential for national operations, drug crime prevention and public safety, undermining the core functions of the state. This has left our citizens in a state of chaos with the nation becoming a haven for drugs and public safety collapsing.” Police struggle with …

China confirms pact with India to ‘resolve’ conflict over disputed border | Border Disputes News

China confirms pact with India to ‘resolve’ conflict over disputed border | Border Disputes News

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Beijing signals ‘positive approval’ for deal as Chinese President Xi and Indian PM Modi attend BRICS summit in Russia. China has confirmed reaching a deal with India over their disputed border in the Himalayan region, a day after New Delhi said it had struck an agreement with Beijing for military patrols along the frontier. But the announcement on Tuesday did not explain whether the pact covered the length of the border or just points where the two sides have been involved in a standoff since 2020. Relations between the world’s two most populous, nuclear-armed neighbours have been strained since clashes between their troops on the largely undemarcated frontier in the western Himalayas’ Ladakh region four years ago killed 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers. Since the skirmish in 2020, both sides pulled back tens of thousands of soldiers and agreed not to send patrols into a narrow strip surrounding the Line of Actual Control, which is an unofficial division about 3,488km (2,167 miles) long in the Himalayas, with China claiming a considerably shorter section. It …

Trapped in Myanmar’s cyber-scam mills | Crime News

Trapped in Myanmar’s cyber-scam mills | Crime News

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Brang, from Kachin State, also fell foul of the traffickers. A university student before the pandemic, he joined nonviolent protests after the coup and travelled to Laukkai in October of 2021 at the invitation of a friend. He arrived to learn that his friend had set him up with a scamming company but reluctantly accepted. Only when he tried to quit, and his bosses told him that they had paid for him under a two-year contract, did he realise his friend had profited from the arrangement. “I accepted this job because I felt bad freeloading at my friend’s house, but it turned out, I was sold,” said Brang. “I felt betrayed and stabbed in the back.” By then, however, he was trapped. “I worked like a robot from 8am to 2am without rest. I wasn’t even allowed to leave the building,” he said. Seated at a long table, he had to search for wealthy-looking women in their 30s and 40s on the Chinese social media and messaging application WeChat, comment on their posts using a …

Gang killed 26 villagers in northern Papua New Guinea: Police | News

Gang killed 26 villagers in northern Papua New Guinea: Police | News

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Tribal violence escalating with influx of mercenaries and automatic weapons into the strained island nation. A gang killed at least 26 men, women and children in an attack on three remote villages in Papua New Guinea’s north, police said. The gang, which struck earlier this month, consisted of “30 young men”, according to James Baugen, a provincial police commander in East Sepik province. “It was a very terrible thing,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Friday, “Some of the bodies left in the night were taken by crocodiles into the swamp. We only saw the place where they were killed. There were heads chopped off,” Baugen told ABC. All the houses in the villages had been burned and the remaining villagers were sheltering at a police station, too scared to name the perpetrators. The attackers were hiding and there were no arrests yet, he added. Volker Turk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, had confirmed that the attacks happened on July 16 and July 18 and were motivated by “a dispute …

Monsoon rains from Typhoon Gaemi strike Philippines – in pictures | World news

Monsoon rains from Typhoon Gaemi strike Philippines – in pictures | World news

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Residents evacuated in Metro Manila and nearby provinces as flooding wreaks havoc Main image: Rescuers help people on a boat as they wade through a flooded road after heavy rains brought by Typhoon Gaemi, in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Lisa Marie David/Reuters Thu 25 Jul 2024 10.31 BST Last modified on Thu 25 Jul 2024 11.10 BST Source link

Prominent anti-whaling activist detained in Greenland at Japan’s request | Climate News

Prominent anti-whaling activist detained in Greenland at Japan’s request | Climate News

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Environmentalist Paul Watson has been detained until August 15, authorities and his foundation said. Veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson has been apprehended by Greenland police following an international arrest warrant issued by Japan. Watson, a 73-year-old Canadian-American citizen, is the former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society whose direct-action tactics, including high-seas confrontations with whaling vessels, have drawn support from A-list celebrities and been featured in the reality television series called Whale Wars. Japan, which says eating whale meat is part of its culture, resumed commercial whaling in 2019 and has since modernised its fleet and expanded its catch list, drawing condemnation from conservationists who fear for the fate of the large ocean mammals. “The Japanese authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for Paul Watson, which is the reason why the Greenland Police were ready to arrest him on arrival in Nuuk,” Greenland’s law enforcement agency said in a statement on Monday. After his arrest, Watson appeared before a district court to look into a request to detain him pending …

Young men trapped between war and conscription in Myanmar’s Rakhine | Conflict News

Young men trapped between war and conscription in Myanmar’s Rakhine | Conflict News

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Since war resumed in his native Rakhine State last November, Thura Maung has seen his options narrow. The 18-year-old, from the state’s ethnic Rakhine majority, first fled his home in the coastal town of Myebon in December, when clashes between the military and autonomy-seeking Arakha Army – formerly known as the Arakan Army – seemed imminent. He and his family escaped by boat, travelling along river inlets at night to avoid being seen by the military. They returned a few days later, but fled twice more over the following months as the fighting escalated. By February, the military and AA were battling for control over Myebon, and Thura Maung could hear shelling from the village where he had taken shelter. The military had also blocked the movement of goods and shut down the internet in areas affected by the conflict, leaving his family struggling to make ends meet. With his university effectively closed due to the fighting, he felt his dreams slipping away. “There were no opportunities for my life to develop, and I saw …