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Illustrative image of a human brain (onimate via iStock by Getty Images)
October 12, 2022, 6:55 pm
Rats implanted with human brain cells provide scientists with invaluable data
Scientists integrate human brain cells into newborn rats, taking ‘our ability to study human brain development, evolution and disease into uncharted territory’
By Sara Hussein
The widow of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, Akie Abe (C), carries his ashes as she arrives for the start of his state funeral at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on September 27, 2022. (Philip Fong/Pool/AFP)
September 27, 2022, 10:01 am
Japan holds controversial state funeral for assassinated ex-PM Shinzo Abe
Foreign dignitaries on hand to pay last respects to the country’s longest-serving premier, as small protests held against ceremony opposed by most Japanese
By Hiroshi HIYAMA and Sara Hussein
The human skeleton found in Borneo, dated to about 31,000 years ago, pictured in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia is photographed on March 4, 2020. (Courtesy of Tim Maloney/Griffith University via AP)
September 7, 2022, 11:11 pm
Ancient skeleton suggests amputation was successfully carried out 31,000 years ago
Bones of young man unearthed in Indonesia indicate his ankle and foot were removed deliberately, and that he survived for years after the complex operation
By Sara Hussein
Just two days after the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, officials of the election administration committee open ballot boxes to count the votes for Japan's upper house election in Tokyo, July 10, 2022. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP)
July 10, 2022, 5:15 pm
Days after Japan ex-PM’s assassination, his ruling party sees projected election win
Japanese media predicts governing parties on track to win majority of seats in upper house of parliament, in vote overshadowed by killing of Shinzo Abe
By Hiroshi HIYAMA and Sara Hussein
People look at campaign posters for Japan's upper house election in Tokyo on July 10, 2022. (Toshifumi KITAMURA / AFP)
July 10, 2022, 6:38 am
Japan votes in shadow of assassination of ex-PM Shinzo Abe
Voters cast their ballots Sunday in an upper house election, just two days after shocking killing
By Hiroshi HIYAMA and Sara Hussein
A hearse transporting the body of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe arrives at his residence in Tokyo on July 9, 2022. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP)
July 9, 2022, 6:50 am
Japan mourns as body of assassinated former prime minister Abe is returned to Tokyo
Murder of best-known Japanese politician horrifies the country; man in custody confesses to assassination, citing Abe’s links to an unspecified group
By Tomohiro Osaki, Kyoko HASEGAWA and Sara Hussein
Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (C) walks through Terminal 1 before boarding her Vienna-bound flight at Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, outside Tokyo on August 4, 2021 (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
August 4, 2021, 10:41 am
Belarus Olympic athlete leaves Japan after Poland offers refuge
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has said she fears for her life if forced to return home; athlete’s problems began after she publicly criticized her coaches
By Kyoko HASEGAWA and Sara Hussein
A man wearing a face mask cycles past the logo of the Tokyo Olympics, in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
March 20, 2021, 1:20 pm
Overseas fans barred from Tokyo Olympics due to pandemic fears
Unprecedented decision will make this summer’s delayed Tokyo games the first-ever held without overseas spectators
By Sara Hussein and Andrew MCKIRDY
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence, April 7, 2020, in Tokyo. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Pool Photo via AP)
August 28, 2020, 9:06 am
Japan’s Abe to announce resignation due to health problems — reports
Expected statement to come after weeks of speculation over Japanese leader’s health; in 2007 he abruptly resigned from 1st stint in office, also due to his health
By Hiroshi HIYAMA and Sara Hussein
Illustration: Surging waves hit against the breakwater and a lighthouse as Typhoon Hagibis approaches at a port in town of Kiho, Mie prefecture, central Japan, October 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Toru Hanai)
October 14, 2019, 6:41 am
Japan rescuers seek survivors after Typhoon Hagibis kills 35
Powerful storm causes landslides, fills rivers until they burst as 110,000 responders search for the missing and trapped
By Shingo Ito and Sara Hussein
A picture taken on November 15, 2017, shows a poster of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri hanging at a street junction in the capital Beirut. (AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EID)
November 15, 2017, 6:54 pm
Love him or hate him, Lebanese want Hariri home
After his shock resignation, divided politicians unify in call for Lebanon PM to return
By Sara Hussein
File: Arab and Kurdish fighters with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces move toward the front line to battle against the Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, northeast Syria, July 22, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)
October 21, 2017, 8:02 am
What impact will Raqqa’s fall have on Syria’s complex war?
Former Islamic State stronghold was captured by Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, after a battle that lasted over 4 months
By Sara Hussein
An aerial view of the word "Peace" in Arabic painted on the roofs of 85 buildings in Tripoli's Syria street which separates the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh from the Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen. The project has been three years in the making, with the artists, 34-year-old twins Mohamed and Omar Kabbani, researching and rejecting multiple locations in their native Lebanon before settling on Tripoli. (AFP PHOTO / ASHEKMAN / Handout)
October 21, 2017, 7:30 am
Art brings ‘Peace’ to battle-scarred Lebanon districts
Painting project on Tripoli’s rooftops will spell out the word ‘salam’ on a scale visible from space
By Sara Hussein
A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by US special forces, looks out from a building at the front line in Raqqa on October 16, 2017 in the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group's crumbling stronghold. (AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC)
October 18, 2017, 5:31 pm
As IS stronghold Raqqa falls, fate of fighters a mystery
Some 150 foreign nationals surrender but nothing is known of hundreds more thought to have been in city as US-backed coalition takes former ‘terror capital’
By Sara Hussein
Syrian government forces look at the horizon from a hill in Bir Qabaqib, more than 40 kilometers west of Deir Ezzor, after taking control of the area on their way to Kobajjep in the ongoing battle against Islamic State group jihadists, September 4, 2017. (AFP/George OURFALIAN)
September 5, 2017, 12:43 am
Syrian army nears regime enclave besieged by Islamic State
Backed by ally Russia, Assad forces aim to capture Deir Ezzor city, a key strategic stronghold for the beleaguered terror group
By Sara Hussein
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