Overview
- Hamas handed Israel one more body via the Red Cross, believed to be a soldier killed in 2014, as part of the Gaza ceasefire framework, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office.
- Israeli authorities remain dissatisfied with missed deadlines tied to the truce’s first-phase exchanges, even as returns of hostages’ remains continue.
- South Korea’s special prosecutors formally indicted former President Yoon Seok-yeol on allegations that include directing the military to fly drones toward North Korea to manufacture a pretext for emergency measures.
- Hyogo Prefectural Police arrested NHK Party leader Takashi Tachibana on a defamation charge over repeated false claims about a former prefectural assembly member, and party lawmaker Saito apologized and signaled maintaining the party’s Upper House caucus alignment with the LDP as the prime minister declined comment.
- President Trump, in a FOX News interview, avoided direct criticism of China’s consul-general in Osaka over a provocative social media post, while separate public-safety incidents in Japan included a Tokyo child-neglect arrest and a Sapporo supermarket fire that prompted roughly 100 evacuations without injuries.