Obama in Hiroshima
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Obama in Hiroshima
US President Barack Obama has visited the Japanese city of Hiroshima as part of his trip for the G7 summit. But his trip has been a controversial one. Hiroshima was one of the two Japanese cities to have been hit by US nuclear bombs. And now Obama is there, and he has refused to offer a formal apology for the disasters Washington created back then. He is the first sitting US president to visit the city where 140 thousand people were killed. He’s only offered to honor all those who lost their lives in World War II.
The killing of the Taliban leader
The US announced earlier this week that it had killed the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan Akhtar Mansour in a drone attack insider the Pakistani territory. Mansoor’s killing – that comes less than a year after his appointment as the group’s leader –took place at a time that the Afghan government was intensifying peace talks with the group. The Taliban leader was described by the US as a barrier to the talks. But many are already criticizing that killing Akhtar Mansoor will change nothing in Afghanistan’s turbulent situation, and may have killed the chance for peace talks, since the current leader Akhoundzada has said it would never have peace talks with the US.
West divided over Russia
Signs of divisions among Western governments over the Russia. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said an agreement on renewing sanctions against Moscow when they expire on July 31 has become more difficult with growing opposition from some EU countries. The EU economic sanctions against Russia were introduced for one year in July 2014 over the Ukraine crisis and they were twice extended in 2015. Now the German foreign minister says resistance in the EU against extending the sanctions towards Russia has increased and that it will be more difficult than it was last year to find a common position on this issue.
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