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4 days ago | theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Daniel Lavelle |Jane Clinton |Tom Ambrose |Kate Lamb |Lucy Campbell | +15 more

President Trump claims a ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been agreed toIn a post on Truth Social, president Trump claims a 12-hr ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been reached. The ceasefire, he says, will begin in 6 hours.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Justin McCurry |Helen Davidson

Japan has voiced “serious concern” over a near miss involving one of its military planes and a Chinese fighter jet in the Pacific, where recent manoeuvres by Chinese aircraft carrier groups have raised tensions across the region. The Chinese aircraft took off from a moving aircraft carrier, the Shandong, and reportedly flew within 45 metres of a Japanese Self-Defence Force (SDF) patrol plane shortly afterwards.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Justin McCurry

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2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Justin McCurry

It’s cheap, filling and a time-honoured way for office workers to calm their hunger pangs. Lunchtime diners at fast-food restaurants in central Tokyo are here for one thing: gyudon – thinly sliced beef and onions on rice. The topping is rich and moreish, but it’s the stickiness of the plump japonica grains beneath that make this one of Japan’s best-loved comfort foods. Rice cultivation in Japan stretches back thousands of years.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | David Levene |Justin McCurry |Harry W. Fischer |Alessia Amitrano

Part 1The Bone HunterToday, the tranquility of this road dissecting the Okinawan jungle is broken only by occasional passing cars and wind rustling through the foliage. For centuries it was a well-worn bridleway in the town of Itoman, on the island’s south-west coast. But 80 years ago, the clip of hooves gave way to the crackle of gunfire, when this sub-tropical Japanese island 1,000 miles south of Tokyo became the scene of the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war.