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Kim Aris gave his mother a puppy in 2010. Taichito guarded Aung San Suu Kyi for more than a decade, then spent his last five years without her. He died last month. Aris talks to RFA about the dog, the wait and the meal he still plans to cook for his mother.

Ukraine strikes a gas station in Russia’s Belgorod region as civilians wait to fill up

🇵🇸 🇯🇵 Kozo Okamoto (Ahmad the Japanese), pro-Palestinian JRA militant dies Japanese activist Kozo Okamoto has died more than five decades after taking part in the 1972 Lod Airport operation near Tel Aviv, which killed 26 people. Okamoto was one of three Japanese Red Army members in the operation planned with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Okamoto was wounded, captured, and sentenced to life in prison, the other two were killed at the scene. He served 13 years before his release, which came after another PFLP operation and subsequent prisoner exchange with Israel in 1985. The PFLP says he spent much of that time in solitary confinement, systematically tortured, and forced to eat off the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back. He eventually returned to Lebanon, was arrested in 1997, and in 2000 avoided extradition to Japan after weeks of protests by pro-Palestinian groups, becoming the first and only person granted political asylum in Lebanon. Four other JRA members were sent back to Tokyo. He lived out his life under PFLP care in Beirut, largely in seclusion and still wanted by Japan, while remaining a folk hero in the Palestinian refugee camps. At a 50th anniversary commemoration in 2022, PFLP members walked him to a cemetery on the edge of Shatila refugee camp, where he laid a wreath for his fallen comrades and made a V for victory gesture ✌️. A PFLP statement says he died today in Beirut’s southern suburbs (Dahiyeh), aged 78. Photo 1: PFLP honoring Okamoto today Photo 2: An archival photo showing the late revolutionary comrade Kuzo Okamoto offering a traditional Japanese greeting to Hassan Nasrallah. Photo 3: Okamoto 2022 Photo 4: Okamoto with Red Army leader upon his release

🇮🇳A Word of Caution on "Student Protests" in India India is a member of BRICS, a close ally and partner of Russia, and has been increasingly working closer together with China despite the sometimes real tension but mostly superficial rhetoric both in the West and within India's own information space. No nation is ever a monolithic homogeneous structure - especially a nation as large as India. India is composed of many different interests pulling in different direction. It has maintained a balancing act between West and East - but of course the US will settle for nothing less than full submission and servitude. What are the PRIMARY tools the US uses to change the direction of a targeted nation's policies? Of course - "color revolution." So please look carefully at the "student protests" promoted favorably by the New York Times and organized by "a graduate of Boston University" and some of the same interests (Sonam Wangchuk) connected to US regime change in neighboring Nepal last year (2025). These are protests taking place in India just as US war of aggression against Russia and Iran escalate and a desire to encircle and undermine China has become desperate. I have not fully researched this yet - I'm simply pointing out the obvious warning signs already apparent. Follow the money - not your emotions. Do not simply draw conclusions based on your own political proclivities, racism, bigotry, and bias - and end up carrying water for US foreign policy objectives just to spite whatever it is you imagine "India" or the world to be.

a MN source rumors that MNDAA & UWSA are both scheduled to meet with the junta's NSPNC in Naypyidaw next month. (the headline from ahead of the TNLA-NSPNC talks claiming MNDAA were resisting Chinese pressure to meet the regime now seems perhaps sus)

Mask off, if you somehow still had any doubts or were caping for him in some way.

Hun Manet received FBI Director Kash Patel at the Peace Palace this morning. Earlier in Bangkok, Patel met Thai PM Anutin around the FBI’s summit with police chiefs from 20 Asia-Pacific countries.