On Wednesday Australia said it would accept an extra 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees, on top of its existing humanitarian intake of 13,750. The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, said his country would accept 20,000 Syrians who were “welcome to share this land of peace and contribute to our country’s development”. Japan, however, said that although Tokyo was “cooperating” with its internationa
More than 100 people have been ordered to evacuate after a volcano erupted on the tiny southern Japanese island of Kuchinoerabu on Friday morning. Spectacular TV footage captured the moment Mount Shindake exploded, sending columns of thick, black smoke high into the air. Japan’s meteorological agency raised the alert level to five – the highest on its scale – and ordered the island’s 140 residents
The diplomat confirmed an air strike on a three-car convoy had taken place on that date between the village of Umm al-Rous and al-Qaraan. The attack targeted local Isis leaders and is believed to have killed three men. Officials did not know at the time that Baghdadi was in one of the cars. Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi official who advises Baghdad on Isis, told the Guardian: “Yes, he was wounded in
Japan’s biggest-selling newspaper has apologised for its past use of the term “sex slaves” to describe tens of thousands of women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during the second world war. The move by the Yomiuri Shimbun, a conservative broadsheet with a daily circulation of more than 10 million, has fuelled concern that sections of the country’s media have signe
One of Japan's leading newspapers has been forced into a climbdown over serious errors in articles about two of the most contentious issues in the country: the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the use of wartime sex slaves. Executives at the Asahi Shimbun, a left-leaning daily whose morning edition has a circulation of 7.6m, said the newspaper's executive editor, Nobuyuki Sugiura, would be dismissed
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