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Residents on Okinawa have long been frustrated by the burden of hosting American troops.
A 20-year-old U.S. Marine has been arrested on suspicion of robbing and killing a woman in Okinawa, Japan. The soldier denies the murder charge. The killing has triggered public outrage and protests in Okinawa and Tokyo, and Japan's government lodged a formal protest with the United States demanding action by military officials. The U.S. ambassador said his office is providing full cooperation with the investigation.
BBC News – World Residents on Okinawa have long been frustrated by the burden of hosting American troops.
Residents on Okinawa have long been frustrated by the burden of hosting American troops.
Sky News – World Ambassador vows cooperation as Japan protests after a US marine’s arrest in connection to Okinawa murder case.
NPR – US Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday.
BBC News – World Suspect allegedly killed woman at hotel in Okinawa as prime minister calls crime ‘exceptionally brutal and vicious’ A US marine stationed on Japan ’s southern island of Okinawa is accused of murdering a Japanese woman and has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said on Sunday. The suspect allegedly “killed [a] 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet” as well as her backpack, local police t…
The Japanese government has lodged an official protest with Washington after a US Marine was arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman in Okinawa — where incidents involving US service personnel are not uncommon.
NYTimes – World Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, a Nobel laureate, announced her return to Venezuela on social media after nearly 10 months in exile. Her homecoming follows national protests demanding free elections and comes after the U.S. military deposed then-President Nicolás Maduro, replacing him with interim president Delcy Rodríguez, who has exceeded her authorized term without scheduling an election.
NYTimes – World Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, saying his camp lost to the opposition Student List. The vote followed nearly two years of student-led protests against perceived corruption and authoritarianism and drew a near-70% turnout, the highest since Yugoslavia's 1992 break-up. Vučić had led with virtually absolute power for 14 years.
Sky News – World Fire broke out again overnight at a former mountain retreat used by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, a survey shows most people in Germany feel the days of the governing coalition are numbered. DW has more.
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