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Russia’s Medvedev says Japanese PM should disembowel himself
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Former president as soon as seen as a reformer has reinvented himself as an arch-hawk since Russia invaded Ukraine final yr.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of shameful subservience to the USA and advised he ought to ritually disembowel himself.
It was the most recent in a protracted line of stunning and provocative statements from Medvedev, who was as soon as seen as a Western-leaning reformer however has reinvented himself as an arch-hawk since Russia invaded Ukraine final yr.
Talking at a information convention in Washington on Saturday, a day after a summit with US President Joe Biden on Friday, Kishida made no point out of Medvedev’s remark and was not requested about it.
Japanese officers travelling with Kishida didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark and in Japan, nobody was instantly accessible for touch upon the remarks at both the prime minister’s official residence or the international ministry outdoors regular working hours.
Medvedev is a outstanding ally of President Vladimir Putin who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Safety Council and of a physique overseeing the defence trade.
He was responding to a gathering on Friday between Kishida and Biden, after which the 2 leaders issued a joint assertion saying, “We state unequivocally that any use of a nuclear weapon by Russia in Ukraine could be an act of hostility towards humanity and unjustifiable in any method.”
On Saturday, Kishida mentioned the G7 summit of main industrialised nations in Hiroshima in Might ought to exhibit a robust will to uphold worldwide order and rule of legislation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Medvedev mentioned the nuclear assertion confirmed “paranoia” in the direction of Russia and “betrayed the reminiscence of a whole bunch of 1000’s of Japanese who have been burned within the nuclear hearth of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” – a reference to the atomic bombs that the USA dropped on Japan earlier than its give up on the finish of World Conflict II.
Relatively than demanding US repentance for this, Kishida had proven he was “only a service attendant for the People”.
He mentioned such disgrace might solely be washed away by committing “seppuku” – a type of suicide by disembowelment, also referred to as “hara-kiri” – at a gathering of the Japanese cupboard after Kishida’s return.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Medvedev has warned repeatedly that Western meddling within the disaster might result in nuclear warfare, and has referred to Ukrainians as “cockroaches” in language Kyiv says is overtly genocidal.
Putin has mentioned that the chance of a nuclear warfare is rising however insisted Russia has not “gone mad” and that it sees its personal nuclear arsenal as a purely defensive deterrent.
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Trudeau called out by steelworker who refuses to shake his hand during blunt exchange: 'Don't believe you'
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got an earful during a photo op from a cash-strapped steelworker who told the leader his policies have left his family scratching to make ends meet.
Footage of the tense exchange in Sault Ste. Marie, a city in Ontario, which was obtained by CTV News, went viral. The unidentified worker spurned Trudeau’s offer of doughnuts to complain about high taxes, medical bills and giveaways to people he deemed “lazy.”
“The 25% tariffs we just brought in is going to help you out … that’s going to keep your job,” Trudeau told the man.
“What about the 40% taxes I am paying? And I don’t have a doctor,” the employee of Algoma Steel shot back.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP)
Trudeau responded by saying that a multimillion-dollar investment from the Canadian government meant the man would have a job “for many years to come.” The man responded by saying that he expected Trudeau to be voted out.
“That’s what elections are for,” said the Liberal Party leader, who stayed calm and collected during the exchange. “I look forward to everyone exercising the right to vote. … We are going to invest in you and your job.”
“I don’t believe you for a second,” the steelworker shot back.
The man also mentioned that he felt unemployed Canadians got better access to affordable health care than he did after Trudeau referenced an initiative to help hundreds of thousands of Canadians get dental care.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Arlyn McAdorey/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Probably like my neighbor who doesn’t go to work because she’s lazy?” the steelworker asked.
“You know what? Most Canadians try to stick up for each other, and that’s what we’ve got to keep doing,” Trudeau responded before wishing the man good luck. At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
The next federal election in Canada is set to take place on Oct. 20, 2025. Trudeau’s government has been scrutinized amid a cost-of-living crisis affecting the country, though Trudeau has remained optimistic.
“Inflation came down last month, beating out expectations,” the prime minister wrote in a Facebook post on July 17. “But, until Canadians can feel that relief in their wallets, at the grocery store, and on their mortgages, the job’s not done.”
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Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, center, is shown during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not pictured, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sept. 22, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Trudeau’s office for comment.
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Taiwan court orders release of ex-Taipei mayor arrested in corruption probe
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Taiwan People’s Party leader Ko Wen-je freed after court finds insufficient evidence to justify his detention.
A court in Taiwan has ordered the release of a former mayor and presidential candidate who was arrested over his alleged role in a corruption scandal, citing insufficient evidence for his detention.
Taipei District Court on Monday ruled that Ko Wen-je, a former mayor of Taipei and the leader of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), should go free after finding that prosecutors had failed to make the case for his detention.
The court said prosecutors had not met the standard of there being a “high possibility” Ko had committed a crime.
“It cannot be concluded that the defendant… knowingly violated the law,” the court said in its ruling.
Ko was arrested on Saturday as part of a probe into alleged corruption in the redevelopment of the Core Pacific City shopping centre in the Taiwanese capital.
Ko, who came third in January’s presidential election, told reporters outside court that there was “no evidence” of his involvement in the real estate scandal.
A surgeon by training, Ko entered politics in 2014 when he successfully ran for the mayorship of Taipei as an independent candidate.
Re-elected as mayor of Taipei in 2018, he founded the TPP the following year as a third force to challenge the dominance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and China-leaning Kuomintang (KMT).
Under the TPP banner, Ko received about one-quarter of the vote in the last presidential election, which was won by the DPP’s William Lai Ching-te.
While the TPP has only eight legislators in Taiwan’s 113-seat parliament, the party has gained outsized influence as both the DPP and KMT lack a ruling majority.
Ko, who draws much of his support from young people, is widely seen as a contender for the next election in 2028, although his popularity has been dented by a separate campaign funds scandal.
On Thursday, Ko said he would take a three-month leave of absence from the TPP leadership to take responsibility for the misreporting of campaign money and the use of election subsidies to set up a personal office space.
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