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Japan PM says ruling party to cut ties with Unification Church
Japan PM says ruling party to cut ties with Unification Church
by  AFP

Japan's prime minister on Wednesday said members of his ruling party will have to cut ties with the Unification Church, which has faced renewed scrutiny following ex-premier Shinzo Abe's assassination. Abe's alleged assassin resented the church over his mother's involvement with and hefty donations to the organisation, and targeted the former prime minister believing he was linked to the sect.

IAEA inspectors set off for Russian-held Ukrainian nuclear plant
IAEA inspectors set off for Russian-held Ukrainian nuclear plant
by  AFP

A team led by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency set off from Kyiv on Wednesday for a Russian-held nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine that has sparked global concern. "We are now finally moving," IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, who arrived in Kyiv on Monday with a 13-strong team, told reporters before heading off.

Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins 'Asia's Nobel Prize'
Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins 'Asia's Nobel Prize'
by  AFP

A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners Wednesday of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award -- considered Asia's Nobel Prize. "I'm... traumatised myself as a victim under the Khmer Rouge, but working to help survivors of the Khmer Rouge helped me heal myself too," he said in a 2017 interview.

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