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U.S. officials meet with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga for talks in Tokyo on Tuesday.Pool photo by Eugene Hoshiko

On a visit to Tokyo, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin rebuked what they called “coercion” and “destabilizing actions” by China’s military. Blinken is set to meet with two top Chinese officials on Thursday in Alaska.
North Korea warned the Biden administration to “refrain from causing a stink” when Blinken and Austin visit South Korea this week.
Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s 99-year-old husband, left a London hospital on Tuesday after a month-long convalescence.
Melek Ipek faces a life sentence in Turkey after she killed her abusive husband. Feminist groups have risen to her defense, igniting a fiery national conversation about women’s rights and a lack of punishments for domestic abuse.
Israeli researchers unveiled dozens of newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments, containing biblical texts dating back nearly 2,000 years.
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