AP, Tokyo
US Secretary of State John Kerry and fellow envoys from the G7, including nuclear powers Britain and France, will visit Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park this month, Japan announced.
Kerry will be the first US secretary of state to have ever visited the iconic park, where he is set to lay flowers at the memorial dedicated to the victims of the world’s first nuclear attack on August 6, 1945.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said late Saturday: “Foreign ministers from the G7 countries will all visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and offer flowers at the cenotaph for the victims on April 11.”
Sri Lanka detains 14 foreigners
AP, Colombo
Sri Lanka has detained 14 foreigners after seizing 110 kilograms of heroin worth $7.5 million from an Iranian fishing trawler in the country’s biggest drug bust for nearly three years, police said Sunday.
Ten Iranians, two Pakistanis, one Indian and one Singaporean were remanded in custody after appearing in a magistrate’s court in Colombo on Saturday, national police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.
Brussels Airport reopens
AP, Brussels
Brussels Airport reopens on Sunday with three “symbolic” flights and strict additional security checks for passengers, marking a new era for air travel in Belgium after attacks by ISIS suicide bombers.
The key travel hub has been closed since two men blew themselves up in the departure hall on March 22 in coordinated blasts that also struck a metro station in the Belgian capital, killing a total of 32 people.
