Campaigners hit Japan gov’t forced sterilization report

Another $520 million of the aid will help Ukraine overhaul its energy grid, much of which has been destroyed by Russian attacks, including through market reforms, Blinken said.

Among the rest of the aid, $100 million will support upgrades to Ukraine’s customs services, including by transitioning to digital technology to improve transparency in trade.

Blinken made clear that Washington would keep an eye on corruption— which could sap congressional support for helping Ukraine—and called on Ukraine’s parliament to approve a law against monopolies.

Blinken said the United States would expand assistance to bolster anti-corruption bodies and civil society as well as free media.

Such institutions are “crucial to ensuring the unprecedented resources that all of us are providing are managed responsibly.” AFP

Tunisia derailed train leaves 2 dead

TWO people were killed and 34 injured when an overnight passenger train careered off the tracks and overturned in eastern Tunisia on Wednesday, the state-owned SNCFT rail company said.

The accident occurred shortly after midnight (2300 GMT) when a train operating between Tunis and the southern city of Gabes derailed near Msaken, a town about 150 kilometers (95 miles) from the capital.

as the director of the national police.

Sabillon was reassigned to the Honduran foreign ministry.

Honduras is a country wracked by corruption and gangs that have infiltrated even the top levels of government.

Along with neighbors El Salvador and Guatemala, Honduras forms Central America’s so-called “triangle of death” plagued by the murderous gangs called “maras” that control drug trafficking and organized crime.

Drug trafficking groups and gang members are largely responsible for the soaring rate of homicides in Honduras, which at 40 murders per 100,000 inhabitants last year was four times higher than the world average. AFP

The driver and a passenger were killed while 34 other passengers were injured, the SNCFT said.

“An investigation has been opened to clarify the circumstances and causes of the accident and to determine who was responsible,” it added.

The accident comes 15 months after a collision between two trains in the south of the capital injured around 100 people.

In December 2016, five people were killed and more than 50 injured in the same area when a train and a public bus collided.

Blamed on faulty infrastructure, the accident prompted the sacking of the SNCFT’s then chief executive.

In June 2015, Tunisia experienced one of the worst rail accidents in its recent history when 18 people died in a crash between a train and a truck at El Fahes, about 60 kilometers south of Tunis.

The collision was caused by a signalling fault at a level crossing. AFP

JAPANESE campaigners on Wednesday slammed a government report into the sterilization of thousands under a eugenics law in place until 1996, saying it failed to take responsibility for the procedures.

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The 1,400-page report submitted to parliament this week details how some 16,500 people – including some as young as nine – were sterilized without their consent under the law in force from 1948.

Around 8,500 more were sterilized after their consent was obtained, though campaigners have cast doubt on how freely agreement was given.

The law allowed doctors to sterilize people with heritable intellectual disabilities, to “prevent ... poor quality descendants.”

In 2019, lawmakers passed legislation offering each victim government compensation of 3.2 million yen ($22,800) – an amount campaigners called insufficient given the damage inflicted.

Lawmakers also commissioned the report made public this week, which Koji Niisato, a lawyer who has represented victims of the policy, said fell short.

It is “largely a compilation of what has been investigated and reported” which merely confirms “that it was an extremely terrible law,” he told journalists Wednesday. AFP