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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Why did Leonardo da Vinci draw so many weapons of war if he was a pacifist, as stated by a recent art exhibition?

QUESTION: Why did Leonardo da Vinci draw so many weapons of war if he was a pacifist, as stated by a recent art exhibition? The London Beer Flood occurred on October 17, 1814, at the Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, at 269 Tottenham Court Road. The London Beer Flood occurred on October 17, 1814, at the Meux & Co's …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Exiled from Russia centuries ago, a religious group is on the edge of vanishing

The Independent

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

LDP's attempt to revise Japan's Constitution opposed

China Daily

Japanese citizens are voicing strong objections to the government's attempts to amend the nation's pacifist Constitution and rapidly expand the military. Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, agreed on Monday it will seek to specifically mention the name of the Self-Defense Forces in a revised Constitution. Government officials claim that changes in the security environment necessitate military expansions, but …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

View: Does Bharat’s pacifist mindset cause strategic confusion?

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: In his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of Red Fort this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Bharat was the land of Buddha and “war was not our path.” He said that India does not pose a threat to the world and that Bharat never dragged the world to wars. While PM Modi said that India …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

'It was the one great mistake in my life': The letter from Einstein that ushered in the age of the atomic bomb

BBC

'It was the one great mistake in my life': The letter from Einstein that ushered in the age of the atomic bomb Getty Images On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote to the US President Franklin D Roosevelt. "Recent work in nuclear physics made it probable that uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy," reads …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Japan approves plan to sell fighter jets to other nations in latest break from pacifist principles

Associated Press

TOKYO — Japan’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets that it’s developing with Britain and Italy to other countries, in the latest move away from the country’s postwar pacifist principles. The contentious decision to allow international arms sales is expected to help secure Japan’s role in the joint fighter jet project and part of …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Russian artist jailed for staging anti-war supermarket protest as Putin pardons murderer of Kremlin-critic

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Russian artist and musician has been jailed for seven years for replacing supermarket price tags …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Russian artist who protested Ukraine war gets 7 years in prison in latest crackdown on free speech

Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia — A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for swapping supermarket price tags with antiwar messages, sentencing her to seven years in prison in one of the highest-profile cases involving the recent crackdown on free speech. Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 and charged with spreading false information about …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Japan foreign minister and business leaders meet Ukrainian leader and vow support for reconstruction

Associated Press

TOKYO — Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday during his visit in Kyiv, promising Tokyo’s backing and agreeing to start negotiations on security cooperation between the two countries. Hayashi told Zelenskyy that Japan was ready to start negotiations on security cooperation based on an agreement between the Group of Seven and Ukraine made …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Japan’s PM offers Ukraine support as China’s Xi backs Russia

Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit Tuesday to Kyiv, engaging in dueling diplomacy with Asian rival President Xi Jinping of China, who met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to promote Beijing’s peace proposal for Ukraine that Western nations have all but dismissed as a non-starter. “It looks like the West indeed intends to …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Japan’s Kishida heading to Ukraine for talks with Zelenskyy

Associated Press

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was heading to Kyiv early Tuesday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that coincide with the Chinese leader’s visit to Moscow. Kishida will “show respect to the courage and patience of the Ukrainian people who are standing up to defend their homeland under President Zelenskyy’s leadership, and show solidarity and unwavering support …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Japan's prime minister arrives in Ukraine for talks with President Zelenskyy

NPR

Japan's prime minister arrives in Ukraine for talks with President Zelenskyy Enlarge this image toggle caption Yoshikazu Tsuno/AP Yoshikazu Tsuno/AP KYIV, Ukraine — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a surprise visit to Ukraine early Tuesday, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in neighboring Russia for a three-day visit. He will "show respect to the courage and patience of …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Japan PM Fumio Kishida prioritises arms buildup, reversing low birthrate

The Hindu

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, on January 23, said Japan faces the severest security environment in the region since the end of World War II and pledged to push a military buildup under a newly adopted security strategy over the next five years and beyond as well as tackle rapidly declining births so the country can sustain national strength. Mr. Kishida's …

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2 years ago

Tomahawks part of Japan’s record defense spending next year

Associated Press

TOKYO — Japan’s defense spending will jump 20% to a record 6.8 trillion yen next year as the country prepares to deploy U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles that can hit targets in China or North Korea under a more offensive security strategy. The budget plan comes a week after Kishida’s government announced Japan’s new National Security Strategy, stating …

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2 years ago

Japan unveils record defence budget amid regional security fears

Al Jazeera

The cabinet’s nod for a 20-percent rise in military spending is a deviation from pacifist post-WWII self-defence policy. Japan will boost its defence budget for 2023 to a record 6.8 trillion yen, or a 20-percent increase, in the face of regional security concerns and threats posed by China and North Korea. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet approved the budget on …

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2 years ago

Explained: Why pacifist Japan wants to augment its arms capability and defence budget

Firstpost

In a huge turn from its postwar security policy, Japan has decided to possess ‘counterstrike capability’ to preempt enemy attacks. The country also aims to double its defence spending to about two per cent of its GDP Japan this week adopted a new national security strategy that includes determination to possess “counterstrike" capability to preempt enemy attacks and double its …

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2 years ago

Pacifist Japan unveils unprecedented $320bn military build-up

Al Jazeera

Unthinkable under past administrations, the rapid arming of Japan has the support of about 70 percent of voters, polls say. Japan has said it would begin a once-unthinkable $320bn military build-up that would arm it with missiles capable of striking China and ready it for a sustained conflict as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war fears. “The strategic …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | IAFâ€™s big challenge: Building world-class fighters in India

Deccan Chronicle

As fighter aircraft are high-tech, high-cost, high-maintenance, high-speed and high-risk operating machines, one must constantly assess the ambience where the Indian Air Force has its operating flight envelope. There are three Russian-origin squadrons of MiG-29 interceptor/air defence aircraft ; four Anglo-French Jaguar ground attack/strike squadrons ; six MiG-21 Bison multi-role fighter squadrons ; three French-made Mirage-2000 interceptor/air defence squadrons ; …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Four Nobel Peace laureates who were in jail when they won

Firstpost

Furious over the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award Carl von Ossietzky, Adolf Hitler banned all German citizens from accepting a Nobel in any category Paris: Belarusian rights campaigner Ales Bialiatski, who was jailed in July 2021, is the fourth laureate to win the Nobel Peace Prize whilst behind bars. The other Peace Prize laureates who were imprisoned when they …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Pick Modi and Pope to broker peace between Russia, Ukraine, says Mexico

Deccan Chronicle

PITTSBURGH: Mexico has proposed to the United Nations to set up a committee that would include India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pope Francis and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to mediate permanent peace between Russia and Ukraine. “Based on its pacifist vocation, Mexico believes that the international community must now channel its best efforts to achieve peace,” Casaubn said. “In this …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Secrets about Zodiac: Five secrets about Gemini that you didn’t know

Hindustan Times

People born under the Gemini sign can sometimes get a reputation for being a bit well all over the place. Five secrets about Gemini : Know what could be the less known traits of Gemini natives. Let's reveal the five core secrets of Gemini personality that define you perfectly. People falling under Gemini sign try to be pacifist but if …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Shinzo Abe may be gone but his legacy lives on

Al Jazeera

The success of Abe’s LDP in Sunday’s legislative elections shows the slain former prime minister will continue to have an impact on Japan’s trajectory for years to come. It rallied public support for Abe’s incumbent Liberal Democratic Party and allowed it to garner enough votes in Sunday’s legislative elections to push for realising his overreaching vision for the country – …

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2 years, 5 months ago

A death unforetold: On assassination of Shinzo Abe

The Hindu

Shinzo Abe was a popular, even if divisive, politician who was no stranger to controversies. Since his rise to power in 2006 until his tragic assassination last week, he remained a tall presence in Japan’s politics and his views reshaped the country’s global profile. Abe may not have succeeded in restoring Japan’s economic superpower status while his attempts to rewrite …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Shinzo Abe dead: Former Japanese prime minister dies after being shot during speech

The Independent

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Why did Leonardo da Vinci draw so many weapons of war if he was a pacifist, as stated by a recent art exhibition?

Exiled from Russia centuries ago, a religious group is on the edge of vanishing

LDP's attempt to revise Japan's Constitution opposed

View: Does Bharat’s pacifist mindset cause strategic confusion?

'It was the one great mistake in my life': The letter from Einstein that ushered in the age of the atomic bomb

Japan approves plan to sell fighter jets to other nations in latest break from pacifist principles

Russian artist jailed for staging anti-war supermarket protest as Putin pardons murderer of Kremlin-critic

Russian artist who protested Ukraine war gets 7 years in prison in latest crackdown on free speech

Japan foreign minister and business leaders meet Ukrainian leader and vow support for reconstruction

Japan’s PM offers Ukraine support as China’s Xi backs Russia

Japan’s Kishida heading to Ukraine for talks with Zelenskyy

Japan's prime minister arrives in Ukraine for talks with President Zelenskyy

Japan PM Fumio Kishida prioritises arms buildup, reversing low birthrate

Tomahawks part of Japan’s record defense spending next year

Japan unveils record defence budget amid regional security fears

Explained: Why pacifist Japan wants to augment its arms capability and defence budget

Pacifist Japan unveils unprecedented $320bn military build-up

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | IAFâ€™s big challenge: Building world-class fighters in India

Four Nobel Peace laureates who were in jail when they won

Pick Modi and Pope to broker peace between Russia, Ukraine, says Mexico

Secrets about Zodiac: Five secrets about Gemini that you didn’t know

Shinzo Abe may be gone but his legacy lives on

A death unforetold: On assassination of Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe dead: Former Japanese prime minister dies after being shot during speech