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I collect world news here. I am specialized in International Relations and especially interested in politics in the Asia-Pacific region. PiyoShogi 3-dan+. My X (Twitter) account is @FujiiPonta.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/09/2026
UPDATE: A news helicopter crashed in the Chatsworth community of Los Angeles while it was covering a bus collision Tuesday evening, killing three people, officials said. NBC Los Angeles reported on the air that the helicopter was one of its own.
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Helicopter crashes in Los Angeles, killing at least one
A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson said the deceased was found on the ground, outside the aircraft.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Millions of people crowded cloudless cities and towns in Spain on Wednesday (August 12) in search of the best views of a total solar eclipse, when the alignment of the sun, moon and Earth briefly plunged parts of the planet into darkness.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
1. Democratic socialists hit a blue wall in Wisconsin 2. Republicans will miss running against Hong 3. Progressives score Senate primary win in Minnesota 4. A Trump endorsement still matters, sometimes
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
These were some of the emerging themes after voters went to the ‌polls in Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Carolina, Connecticut, and Vermont in one of the last big primary nights before the November midterm elections. Here is what we learned.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Apache helicopter from the Fort Hood military installation crashed in Salado, Texas, around 1:35 pm local time on Wednesday, and the two pilots on board were confirmed dead, said Cliff Coleman, a spokesperson for the Bell County Sheriff’s Office.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
US: A military attack helicopter slammed into a Central Texas field and caught fire on Wednesday (August 12), killing the two pilots aboard and forcing evacuations in the area. www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/u...
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2 pilots dead after military helicopter slams into Central Texas field and catches fire | CNN
A military attack helicopter slammed into a Central Texas field and caught fire on Wednesday, killing the two pilots aboard and forcing evacuations in the area.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The departure comes at a challenging moment for Trump, who’s facing low approval ratings amid the ongoing war with Iran and high gas prices, with most Americans saying he hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The imminent departure of one of the president’s closest allies inside the White House marks a major shakeup for the president’s press operation, with less than three months until the midterm elections.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
that ‌Meta designed its platforms to keep young users hooked and misled consumers about their safety. The trial will also address claims by 29 states that the company illegally collected and used children's data in violation of federal law.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
a case that could expose ​the company to massive damages and force it to make sweeping changes to its platforms. The trial in Oakland, expected to last seven weeks, will test Colorado, Kentucky, California and New Jersey's allegations …
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday (August 12) over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, …
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The outbreak in eastern Congo, considered the fastest-growing in history, has killed over 2,000 people out of more than 4,300 cases. It is unlike recent Ebola outbreaks because the rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for it has no approved vaccines, though efforts to address that are underway.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“At its current pace, it’s on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. That outbreak horrified the world and jolted efforts to develop a vaccine.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Germany's intelligence services, created after World War Two when memories of the Nazi regime were still fresh, have traditionally had more ​circumscribed powers than the equivalents of allies such as France, Britain or the United States.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The measures, which ‌have been under discussion for months, would allow both the BND, the foreign intelligence service, and the BfV, the domestic security service, broader authority to access digital communications, collect data and carry out active operations to thwart attacks.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The most significant solar eclipse since 1999 begins as millions of people watch across the UK and parts of Europe. A rare total eclipse has peaked in Iceland, while it is under way in other parts of Europe including Spain.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Zelenskiy said ⁠26 settlements in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions had ​been brought back under Kyiv's control. They are located along ​an approximately 60 km stretch of the front where the borders of the three regions meet.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ukraine's military has sought to heap pressure on Moscow's war effort ​in recent months, counterattacking on parts of the 1,200-km ​front and striking logistics and energy infrastructure.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ukraine’s air and sea drones have succeeded in limiting the movements of Russia’s once-dominant Black Sea navy, Kyiv officials say, in one of the country’s biggest accomplishments of the war.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Cutting-edge drones developed by Kyiv since Moscow’s full-scale invasion over four years ago have repeatedly targeted Russian ships in the Black Sea, including warships and oil tankers.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A number of exchanges have taken place ​since then, but on Monday "I Want to Find", a Ukrainian government-backed ⁠project that tracks the status of captured or killed Russian soldiers, accused Moscow of ​excluding from exchange lists POWs from Russian-held territory in Ukraine.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thousands of prisoners have been exchanged since the start of the full-scale war in February 2022. An agreement in May to swap a further 1,000 captives each was one of the main ​tangible results of US-brokered peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The council, which counts Russia as a permanent member, heard the accounts as both Russia and Ukraine have escalated attacks in the four-year conflict.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
She spoke at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council called by Latvia and the United Kingdom on Monday to spotlight the plight of civilians and soldiers taken during the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in February 2022.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Widespread and systematic torture and ill-treatment” of both Ukrainian civilian detainees and prisoners of war by Russia are continuing, including sexual violence, said Claudia Fuentes Julio, the UN assistant secretary-general for human rights.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Russia rejected the allegations made at an informal UN Security Council meeting, with its Deputy UN Representative Maria Zabolotskaya calling it “a disinformation campaign” and alleging that Russian prisoners in Ukraine were subjected to “torture and degradation and moral and physical abuse.”
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Former Ukrainian detainees and Ukrainian officials accused Russia of ​systematically torturing prisoners of war and civilian detainees, holding captives incommunicado and subjecting them to beatings, electric shocks and sexual abuse, ‌with thousands still in captivity.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Zelenskiy's announcement of fresh proposals for peace talks, largely stalled since the outbreak of the ​conflict with Iran, comes amid suggestions by both Russia and Ukraine that US negotiators would soon pay a ​visit to their two countries.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday (August 11) that Ukraine had handed proposals to ‌US negotiators for a plan to end the war with Moscow and suggested that Russia would use its parliamentary election next month as a pretext to declare a new mobilisation.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In July, Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilots shot down ⁠three Russian drones breaching national airspace over three consecutive days after dozens ​of such incursions in the more than four years of Moscow's invasion ​of Ukraine.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The NATO state shares a 614-km (382-mile) land border with Ukraine and has seen Russian drones repeatedly breach its airspace over the last four years, as well ​as mines floating in the Black Sea across key trade and ​energy routes.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
That demonstration came as the university was negotiating with President Donald Trump's administration, which had cut its federal funding after accusing the university ​of tolerating antisemitism ​during pro-Palestinian ⁠protests.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In May 2025, Columbia suspended more than 65 students for their ‌role ⁠in shutting down the university's main library in a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The lawsuit said the university failed to protect its Palestinian members from harassment and targeted them through what ​it cast as "unfair and biased disciplinary hearings.”
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The latest developments come as a top UN official told the Security Council in New York on Tuesday (11 August) that "the West Bank is at breaking point". All settlements are illegal under international law. Outposts are set up without official Israeli authorisation.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
On Wednesday (12 August) Israeli security forces were reported to have withdrawn from the Jewish settler outpost in the village of Qusra near Nablus, following clashes with a crowd of extremist settlers. About a dozen settlers are said to remain at the site.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Typically, Palestinian landowners receive little or no payment for such land expropriation. And even when it is offered, most refuse it as they see accepting it as giving recognition and legitimacy to the loss of what they see as their patrimony.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
One of the landowners, Abu Mudif, says he has received notification that his land is part of a tranche of about 450 acres that the Israeli authorities are taking possession of in order, they say, to protect and develop the site for a major new national park.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And there is another suggestion that Israel is ready to advance US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza – getting ready for the deployment of the International Stabilization Force (ISF).
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The White House is reportedly "not bothered" by Netanyahu's statement and views it as campaign rhetoric in the run-up to a heated general election. Recent days have seen an apparent pause in Israel's strikes on Gaza – something Hamas had demanded when signing on to the US-backed, 15-point roadmap.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Iranian source dismissed a report on Wednesday (August 12) from Turkey's Anadolu news agency that quoted Pakistani government sources as saying they ​had agreed to extend that 60-day period.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The June interim ceasefire agreement set a 60-day period, extendable by mutual consent, within which Iran and the US were expected to reach a final deal limiting Tehran's nuclear programme and lifting US sanctions.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The ‌comments were a further blow to hopes of a swift resolution to the crisis, following attacks on shipping in the region on Tuesday (August 11) that pushed oil prices higher.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior ​Iranian source who said there had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a timeframe to implement it.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
But belated revelations about the drama, first reported by the Washington Post, kicked up a major new political storm. Most significantly, the ruse conjured up damaging new imagery about an unpopular war that Trump can’t end.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Secret Service did its job by using whatever method was necessary to spirit Trump out of Turkey in July, ultimately on an alternative jet to one that has been bringing presidents home safely since the 1990s.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
When it came time to switch planes, both Rubio and Bessent remained behind on the blue and white Boeing 747 along with other White House staffers, military personnel and members of the press, according to US officials. Most of the passengers on the plane were unaware that Trump was not aboard.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also traveled with the president on the smaller C-32A that took off from Ankara, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stayed on the larger plane.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The aides with Trump on that smaller plane included Natalie Harp, an executive assistant who regularly accompanies Trump when he travels; Dan Scavino, a deputy White House chief of staff; and Walt Nauta, the director of Oval Office operations who also frequently travels with the president.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Close personal aides joined President Donald Trump aboard a smaller aircraft flying out of Turkey last month after he snuck out of a larger plane, according to a person familiar with the arrangements, while several Cabinet members remained on the legacy Air Force One that flew without him.
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