Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi vowed Japan would stay resolute in safeguarding its territory after Chinese jets training near Okinawa on Saturday repeatedly locked radar onto Japanese aircraft that had scrambled in response. Meeting in Tokyo yesterday, Japanese and Australian defense ministers called the Chinese moves dangerous and concerning. China is waging a punitive campaign against Japan over Ms. Takaichi鈥檚 supportive stance toward Taiwan.
Talks for peace in Ukraine continue today, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meeting leaders of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom in London. Three days of talks between Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators ended in Miami this weekend, questions of land concessions and security guarantees still of concern for Ukraine. Washington has been pushing a peace plan that critics say favors Russia. Meanwhile, the Kremlin praised Washington鈥檚 new national security strategy for not describing Russia as a 鈥渄irect threat鈥� and calling for cooperation.
Thailand conducted airstrikes on neighboring Cambodia, six weeks after the two countries signed a peace agreement President Donald Trump helped broker. The border conflict dates back more than a century to a disputed map from colonial times. Thousands of civilians along the border have fled the area amid the worst violence in decades. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who mediated the ceasefire, warned the escalation risks undermining years of 鈥渃areful work鈥� toward peace and called for restraint.
Top Democrats pushed the Pentagon to release video footage of a Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean, which has come under extra scrutiny for a secondary strike that killed two survivors. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the department is reviewing the video to decide whether to declassify it. The U.S. has so far conducted 22 known attacks on such boats in what it calls an anti-drug campaign, prompting legal concerns on both sides of the political aisle.
Iran arrested two marathon organizers for allowing women to run without hijabs, the judiciary said over the weekend. Women in Iran have been required by law to wear head coverings in public since the early 1980s, although enforcement has been less regular since mass protests in 2022. The local prosecutor said the marathon violated 鈥減ublic decency,鈥� while some accused ultraconservatives of using the hijab as a tool for political gain.
San Diego lifeguards saved a black Labrador Retriever mix who had been swept nearly a mile out to sea by a rip current. The dog, 鈥淪adie,鈥� had gotten out of a nearby Airbnb and headed for the ocean. Too dangerous for her owner to go in after her, two lifeguards mounted a rescue water craft and spent over an hour looking. Just before having to call off the search, they spotted the exhausted dog and brought her to safety. 鈥淪he knew that we were there to help,鈥� one told The Washington Post later.
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