China’s Foreign Ministry issued a cold, carefully worded response to the election of Japan’s first female prime minister, conservative leader Takaichi Sanae.
Concern over the kidnapping of a Christian missionary by suspected Islamists has intensified as a security expert warned that the first 48 hours are critical while a U.S. missionary may already have moved through ISIS-controlled areas.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes that most of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile survived the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on nuclear sites in June.