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CNN
15 hours ago
- Health
- CNN
Scores killed in Gaza in latest Israeli strikes
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed more than 70 people on Thursday, with multiple children dying. Injured children, screaming in pain, were brought to Baptist Hospital in Gaza City and other children appeared lifeless as they were carried into the ward.
NHK
01-06-2025
- General
- NHK
Japan group for war-bereaved families to hold its final offshore memorials
A Japanese association for war-bereaved families says it will end its memorial trips to sites of fierce World War Two battles because the participants are aging. The ship for Nippon Izokukai's final offshore memorial left port on Sunday. A total of about 16,000 bereaved family members visited 18 regions, including China and the Philippines, on 451 trips since the project started in fiscal 1991. Family members on the trips paid respects to the war dead and also interacted with local people. The association said it will conclude its overseas memorials by the end of this fiscal year. The group's last memorial at sea, 80 years after the end of the war, includes 218 family members from 42 prefectures. They boarded a vessel at a port in Kobe City, western Japan, on Sunday. They offered a silent prayer during a ceremony held on the ship before it departed around 5 p.m. Japan's health ministry says the remains of about 300,000 of the 2.4 million people who died abroad during the war were never recovered from the ocean. Participants will offer flowers to honor the victims in areas such as the sites where the battleships Yamato and Musashi sank. They will return to Japan on June 11.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
European leaders pay respects to fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Kiev
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk paid their respects to fallen Ukrainian soldiers during a visit to Kiev on Saturday. Joined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska, the leaders placed lanterns at a memorial on the central Independence Square - known as the Maidan - and observed a minute's silence. A Ukrainian honour guard attended the ceremony at the memorial site, which was spontaneously erected on a lawn on the Maidan after the Russian invasion in February 2022. Relatives or friends of Ukrainian soldiers killed in action were asked to place a small flag for each of the casualties on the grass. Since then, tens of thousands of flags, photos and other items have appeared to commemorate the victims of the war. According to official figures, over 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the fighting, although some estimates see the death toll as up to twice as high. The United Nations has reported the deaths of more than 13,000 civilians as a result of the invasion.
