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Iran’s atomic energy agency has dismissed a media report that Iranian experts, instead of the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) staff, will inspect the country’s nuclear sites.

The US can not persuade countries like India and China to join the Iranian sanctions regime again, Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said as he warned the Congress against rejecting the nuclear deal with Iran.

The visits by the Japanese ministers to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war dead, including 14 Class A criminals convicted by the Allies in trials that followed World War II, came a day after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a much-anticipated speech marking the...

In the second round of his regional visits after the nuclear agreement, Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut Tuesday evening.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, when Japanese Emperor Hirohito surrendered to the allied forces. A two paragraph story told of the sinking of the US naval cruiser Indianapolis by the Japanese, shortly before their surrender.

On Saturday, Abe sent a ritual cash offering to Yasukuni Shrine for war dead but did not visit the shrine, seen in China and South Korea as a symbol of Tokyo’s wartime militarism.

In Iran, the CIA has never had much success developing and keeping good intelligence sources, says Reuel Marc Gerecht, who worked as a CIA operations officer.

Pakistan on Monday lodged a strong protest against unprovoked ceasefire violations by Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nakial Sector (Kotli).

In a 25-minute speech which was broadcast live on Friday, the nationalist Abe acknowledged Japan inflicted “immeasurable damage and suffering” on innocent people during its invasion and occupation of East Asia during and before World War Two.

Japan marked 70 years on Saturday since the end of World War Two but faced criticism from South Korea and China, which accused it of failing to properly atone for its actions during the war.

He also met with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj who raised the issue of nine Indian sailors in Iran.

Republicans hold 54 of the Senate’s 100 seats and would need at least 13 Democrats to vote no. So far, just Senator Chuck Schumer has said he will oppose the deal, while 20 Senate Democrats have said they will support it.

However, President Obama has vowed to veto the vote. More recently, he cut that in half, to between $50 and $60 billion.

“It is true that the prime minister’s statement made (yesterday) left much to be desired”, Park said in a speech marking the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II that ended its 1910-45 colonisation of the Korean Peninsula.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday, the day marking the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors Japan’s war dead, including 14 Class-A convicted criminals of WWII.