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Saudi Gazette
15 hours ago
- Saudi Gazette
Japan executes 'Twitter killer' who murdered nine
TOKYO — Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment. The serial killings by Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the "Twitter killer", had shocked the country and triggered debate over how suicide was discussed online. Shiraishi, then 30, lured his victims - most of them young women between the ages of 15 and 26 - to his apartment, before strangling and dismembering them. The killings came to light in October 2017, when police found body parts in the Japanese city of Zama, near Tokyo, when they were searching for one of the victims. Warning: Readers may find some details in this story distressing. Shiraishi later admitted to murdering nine suicidal victims and revealed that he got acquainted with them on Twitter, the social media platform now known as then told them he could help them die, and in some cases claimed he would kill himself alongside Twitter profile contained the words: "I want to help people who are really in pain. Please DM [direct message] me anytime."Nine dismembered bodies were found in coolers and tool boxes when officers visited his flat, which was dubbed by media outlets as a "house of horrors".While prosecutors sought the death penalty for Shiraishi, his lawyers argued for the lesser charge of "murder with consent", claiming his victims had given their permission to be also called for an assessment of his mental later disputed his own defence team's version of events and said he killed without the victims' of people showed up at his verdict hearing in December 2020, when he was sentenced to murders also prompted a change by Twitter, which amended its rules to state users should not "promote or encourage suicide or self-harm".Japan's justice minister Keisuke Suzuki, who said he ordered Shiraishi's execution, said the killer acted "for the genuinely selfish reason of satisfying his own sexual and financial desires", according to an AFP case "caused great shock and anxiety to society", Suzuki said. — BBC
Time of India
20 hours ago
- Time of India
Japan executes 'Twitter killer' who murdered nine
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the " Twitter killer " who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi , 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, all but one of whom were women, after contacting them on the social media platform now called had targeted users who posted about taking their own life, telling them he could help them in their plans, or even die alongside Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Shiraishi's crimes, carried out in 2017, included "robbery, rape, murder... destruction of a corpse and abandonment of a corpse"."Nine victims were beaten and strangled, killed, robbed, and then mutilated with parts of their bodies concealed in boxes, and parts discarded in a garbage dump," Suzuki told reporters in acted to satisfy "his own sexual and financial desires" and the murders "caused great shock and anxiety to society", Suzuki said."After much careful consideration, I ordered the execution."Japan and the United States are the only two G7 countries to still use capital punishment , and there is strong support for the practice among the Japanese public, surveys was one execution in 2022, three in 2021, three in 2019 and 15 in 2018, the justice ministry told was sentenced to death in 2020 for the murders of his nine victims, aged between 15 and luring them to his small home near the capital, he stashed parts of their bodies around the apartment in coolers and toolboxes sprinkled with cat litter in a bid to hide the lawyers had argued Shiraishi should receive a prison sentence rather than be executed because his victims had expressed suicidal thoughts and so had consented to a judge dismissed that argument, calling Shiraishi's crimes "cunning and cruel", reports said at the time."The dignity of the victims was trampled upon," the judge had said, adding that Shiraishi had preyed upon people who were "mentally fragile".The grisly murders were discovered in autumn 2017 by police investigating the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman who had reportedly tweeted about wanting to kill brother gained access to her Twitter account and eventually led police to Shiraishi's residence, where investigators found dismembered body are always done by hanging in Japan, where around 100 death row prisoners are waiting for their sentences to be carried half are seeking a retrial, Suzuki said law stipulates that executions must be carried out within six months of a verdict after appeals are reality, however, most inmates are left on tenterhooks in solitary confinement for years, and sometimes is widespread criticism of the system and the government's lack of transparency over the 2022, Tomohiro Kato was hanged for an attack that killed seven people in 2008, when he rammed a rented two-tonne truck into a crowd in Tokyo and went on a stabbing high-profile executions of the guru Shoko Asahara and 12 former members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult took place in Shinrikyo orchestrated the 1995 sarin gas attacks on Tokyo's subway system, killing 14 people and sickening thousands more.
Time of India
03-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
India not invited at G7 meet in Canada 'yet another big diplomatic bungle': Congress
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel The Congress on Tuesday said India not being invited at the G7 meeting in Canada is "yet another big diplomatic bungle " after the "blunder" of allowing the US to "mediate" between India and is hosting the summit from June 15 to 17 that is expected to deliberate on pressing challenges facing the globe including the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the situation in West Asia. For the first time in six years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to attend the upcoming G7 summit to be held in Canada's Alberta province, people familiar with the matter have is learnt that Ottawa is yet to send an invitation to the Indian prime minister for the summit but Modi, in any way, would have skipped it as such a visit would have required a lot of groundwork considering the current state of ties between the two sides, said the people cited general secretary, communications, Jairam Ramesh said the G7 Summit of the presidents of the USA and France; the prime ministers of the UK, Japan, Italy and Canada; and the Chancellor of Germany is taking place in Kananaskis in Alberta, Canada, from June presidents of Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Ukraine and the prime minister of Australia have also been invited to the summit, he noted."Before 2014, G7 was actually G8 for many years and had included Russia. Dr Manmohan Singh would be invited for G8 Summits where his voice would be heard. It was at one such summit in Germany in June 2007 where the famous Singh-Merkel formula for climate change negotiations had been unveiled," Ramesh said in a post on said the tradition of inviting Indian prime ministers continued after 2014."But now, for the first time in 6 years, 'Vishwaguru' will not be in attendance at the Canada summit. Whatever spin may be given, the fact remains that this is yet another big diplomatic bungle - after the blunder of allowing the US to overturn decades of Indian foreign policy by mediating between India and Pakistan and allowing American authorities to call for continued talks at a 'neutral site'," the Congress leader said in his India-Canada relations had hit rock bottom following then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 's allegations in 2023 of a potential Indian link to the killing of pro-Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Al Etihad
19-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Etihad
Zelensky says Ukraine will observe Easter truce
19 Apr 2025 23:00 Kyiv (AFP)Ukraine will abide by an Easter truce, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, hours after Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to pause all combat activity until 2100 GMT on Sunday."If Russia is now suddenly ready to truly engage in a format of full and unconditional silence, Ukraine will act accordingly -- mirroring Russia's actions," Zelensky said Saturday in a post on proposed "extending it beyond the Easter day of April 20".Putin made the surprise announcement of an Easter truce, set to last until midnight on Sunday (Moscow time), having last month rejected a US proposal for a 30-day unconditional had accepted that Donald Trump is pushing to end the three-year war, but on Friday threatened to ditch his efforts to broker a ceasefire if he did not see meaningful progress soon. Previous attempts at holding ceasefires for Easter in April 2022 and Orthodox Christmas in January 2023 were not implemented after the two sides failed to agree on them.
BBC News
18-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
PM Modi speaks to Elon Musk days before Vance's India visit
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he discussed his country's potential to collaborate with the US on "technology and innovation" during a conversation with Elon Friday, Modi shared a post on X detailing his telephone conversation with the tech billionaire and said they had revisited topics from their meeting in Washington earlier this conversation with Musk comes as India is working towards securing a bilateral trade agreement with the US to offset the brunt of US President Donald Trump's potential also comes days before US Vice-President JD Vance's four-day trip to India. "We discussed the immense potential for collaboration in the areas of technology and innovation," Modi wrote in his post on added that India remained "committed to advancing our partnerships with the US" in these who is seen as being close to Trump and also heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is looking at making inroads into India with his business plans. In March, Starlink signed an agreement with two of India's biggest telecoms firms to bring satellite internet to India and is awaiting government approval to start providing its X is suing India, as Tesla and Starlink plan entryMusk v Ambani: Billionaires battle over India's satellite internetTesla could also finally be making its debut and has begun hiring for a dozen jobs in Delhi and Mumbai. It is also reportedly hunting for showrooms in both Vance is set to meet Modi on 21 April, the first day of his trip, for discussions on economic, trade and geopolitical will be accompanied by his children and wife Usha Vance whose parents migrated to the US from the southern Indian state of Andhra visit comes against the backdrop of an intensifying trade war between the US and slapped India too with 27% US tariffs on 2 April, before he announced a 90-day then, Delhi and Washington have been working towards an early conclusion of trade BBC News India on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
