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Japan to award Iwao Hakamada, held wrongfully for close to 50 years and released last year, largest-ever payout.

Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was on death row for close to half a century compensation of 217 million yen ($1.44m).

The legal team for Iwao Hakamada, released last year after his conviction for a 1966 murder was quashed, said on Tuesday that the compensation payment ordered by a court the previous day was the highest-ever criminal compensation granted in Japan.

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At the start of March, Norwegian marine fuel supplier Haltbakk Bunkers refused to service a United States warship, calling on others to boycott the US fleet.

Haltbakk CEO Gunnar Gran appeared to have been incensed at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s public humiliation in the White House by US President Donald Trump for allegedly being ungrateful for US military support to defend his country from a Russian invasion.

“Huge credit to the president of Ukraine restraining himself and…

Building tension and violence threatens to unravel the peace deal that halted ethnic conflict in 2018.

South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has warned.

The situation in the country is “dire” said Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), late on Monday, as tension between forces allied with President Salva Kiir and those of Vice President Riek Machar continues to build.

Efforts to…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Israeli military issued on Monday night a forced displacement threat for the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza amid intense and deadly airstrikes following the resumption of its brutal assault after nearly two months of fragile ceasefire.

The army’s Arabic language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said, “To all those present in the area of Jabalia, this is an early warning before a strike.. For your safety, head south toward the known shelters…