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Just like the Diamond Princess. A virtual floating petri dish, coming to a Kyushu City near you.

Chumps like Uncle Sam will offer aid anyway. The US has given more than $2B in aid to the Taliban since the US fled Afghanistan. Someone in the Biden Administration will think that offering unconditional humanitarian aid will somehow make Rocket Man and his Twisted Sister become nice and friendly.

May the dead rest in peace and I pray the living will receive succor and help with basic living necessities. How can the government provide for a whole city of people who are homeless and destitute?

The police subsequently discovered the severed head at the Tamura's residence, suspecting it was removed post-mortem.

LOL. I don't think it was removed pre-mortem.

This would be like me pledging the same proportion of my income for each par I make tomorrow. For me, it would be about $10 a hole.

This is all just virtue signalling by a vastly wealthy millionaire. Put your money where your mouth is, young man! There's no guarantee he gives a single cent.

So it seems that severe droughts must have occurred in Spain before, because it would have taken years to build that stone church in the middle of a lake, only to have it covered by water later on. What was the cause of the severe droughts many centuries ago? Manmade climate change too? If not, how can we believe this time that we did it, but it was something else back then?

The wildfires will throw enough ash into the atmosphere to block the sunlight and stop global warming. The earth will rebalance itself in the cycle of Nature.

Will he really get the death sentence? I thought that death sentences were only given for either multiple-murders or for murders in connection with a robbery. One single murder, even a so-called assassination, should not be sufficient for a first-offender.

This wasn't random, it was two people who knew each other escalating their argument. He will face charges for both the assault (possibly as an attempt to murder), and for possession of a bladed weapon without cause.

I had hoped she would be behind bars long enough until she was no longer physically able to breed and do this again.

"So you're here to report that you killed yer mum? This whole neighborhood knows you're crazy. Gennosuke, stop harassing the bicyclists without helmets and go check it out!"

Well, I hope these women will learn a skill that allows them to earn a living, because the casualty rate in the war will mean they won't have a male partner to be their breadwinner.

That was fast. I didn't know they had the technology to recover anything that large at that depth. Remember how long it took Japan to pick up a helicopter and a tour boat in just a few hundred meters of water.

Of course the deal is not ON the table, the deal with Iran is UNDER the table!

“Discrimination is a criminal act. With the help of this tool, we are identifying the perpetrators and we are reporting them to the authorities so that they are punished for their actions,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement.

What is the criminal code citation for discrimination? In what country is it considered to be a criminal act? Just because it is rude and an unwanted social practice doesn't make it criminal in nature. Same with 'abuse'. Early in this article, it was written:

The people made “abusive, discriminatory, or threatening posts (or) comments” on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube

I understand threats and violence likely transgress penal codes, but abuse and discrimination are not likely to be criminal. Perhaps in some civil court where a plaintiff could sue for tortious damages from emotional distress or loss of income, yes, but there is no jail associated with those.

There are far too many people in this world who want to criminalize discourtesy; Mr. Infantino seems to already have reached that point.

Who?

a battalion of 500 reinforcements from Turkey was sent to Kosovo two weeks ago

This is not good. Serbians' original grievances go back to when Turks beat them in Kosovo eight centuries ago and brutally subjugated them for generations. Putting armed Turks in Kosovo is like throwing gasoline on the Balkan Powder Keg.

Now hire all the migrants and refugees from Syria. No? Why not?

He will be sequentially re-arrested every 20 days until he confesses to at least one of the offenses. It takes a pretty tough hombre to withstand weeks or months of day-long interrogations, all the while knowing you've lost your job, your family and your reputation.

"there should be no unfair discrimination", which critics say may tacitly encourage some forms of discrimination.

All of us discriminate every day in many different ways, when we choose our friends or our brand of clothes, in countless decisions in our daily lives. Deciding one thing is better than another is exactly what discrimination is. This is inherent in human nature. The government should not discriminate or favor one group of people over another. However, individuals in their own private capacities should be allowed to make their own choices in their own lives and personal behaviors, based on their own sense of judgment and discretion.

And if no one was on Facebook, then no one would have known about the bomb threat. Get off Facebook! It will lower your stress and anxiety level.

Mr. Kim wants everyone to know his missile is bigger than their missiles. Seriously, this is merely a ruse to deceive the Western nations into an incorrect assessment of the advancement of his missile capabilities. Why the only one fired on a southern trajectory and can be most easily found is the one that "fails"? All the ones fired to the east across the Sea of Japan and which plunge to the depths, never to be retrieved, function normally.

If I was a refugee, I would want to land in Italy rather than Greece, so it's understandable if they really waved off the Greek rescuers.

But the Egyptian government is responsible for this, as they look the other way when their own shipping companies are engaging in human trafficking like this.

The article forgot to mention the dangers of painting enamel paints onto fingernails and toenails, where the solvents are able to be slowly absorbed into the skin. Your skin would be seriously damaged if you put solvent-based paints anywhere else on your body; the toenails and fingernails merely slow the absorption but the body collects them nevertheless.

I don't know, it's a big transition from football to soccer. Not every old star manages it well.

The city has become the Big Yellow Apple!

New York has to be #1 in everything.

@Lindsay, no, there is often no true intent to kill, but rather a morbid curiosity to see what happens when you stab someone. It's something they've never done before, so they are fascinated by it. Some are also excited by the fear and pain they cause to others.

The Japanese 6 o'clock news said he was from Syria, though they can't say he is an "immigrant" just yet.

10 billion yen or around 7 million Euros? (did I get the math correct?)

That's a lot of fireworks. It was a nice today, so it might have been interesting to see daytime fireworks.

This sounds very similar to another shooting not too far away from Machida, over in Zama City.

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/breaking/kanagawa-cops-yakuza-gunned-down-in-dennys-parking-lot-in-zama/

That corner of Tokyo-to where it meets Kanagawa seems to have an organized crime problem.