MOSCOW — Russia has declared 5 diplomats working on the Swedish Embassy in Moscow persona non grata in a tit-for-tat-move, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated Thursday.
The ambassador of Sweden Malena Mard was summoned to the ministry, and was notified that Moscow had determined to expel 5 Swedish diplomats, together with three workers working on the protection attache workplace on the Swedish Embassy in Moscow, the ministry stated. (Russia-Sweden-Diplomacy)
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TOKYO — A girl and two cops had been killed on Thursday in a stabbing and taking pictures incident involving a person armed with a looking rifle in Japan’s central prefecture of Nagano, native media reported.
The male suspect, after fleeing the scene, has holed up in a close-by constructing which is presumably the residence of a neighborhood meeting speaker, the place a number of gunshots had been heard at evening, in line with native media retailers. (Japan-Stabbing-Shooting)
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SEOUL — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday denounced the institution of a trilateral information-sharing mechanism among the many United States, Japan and South Korea on the margins of the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Japan’s Hiroshima.
Leaders of the three nations just lately reaffirmed the real-time sharing of a (DPRK) missile alert info, a mechanism they had been dedicated to establishing final November, proving that “the project of establishing a tripartite information sharing system is being pushed forward at the final stage,” the DPRK’s official Korean Central News Agency stated in a commentary. (DPRK-U.S.-Ties)
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GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) accredited a draft resolution on Wednesday calling on Israel to make sure enough well being take care of these residing within the occupied Palestinian territory, together with East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan.
The 76th World Health Assembly delegates handed the decision with 76 votes in favor, 13 towards and 35 abstaining. (WHO-Palestine-Resolution)