Overview
- The UN’s aviation body adopted stronger standards for aircraft accident investigations that spell out what to do when a government or military at a crash site could be a party to the incident.
- The new rules allow a state to hand the probe to another country or involve ICAO to protect the inquiry’s independence, a change pushed after disputes over Iran’s 2020 shootdown of a Ukrainian jet.
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed and agreed to broaden defense cooperation that includes measures to defeat drones that have targeted Gulf infrastructure.
- A Japanese court ordered four former leaders of the Toyohashi quail cooperative to pay about ¥48.7 million after finding they took improper payments and directed funds to a related company and a farm they ran, with the defendants weighing an appeal.
- Yamaguchi police renewed a public plea for tips in a 2013 double murder after a year without new leads, while in sports Japan logged milestones from Vissel Kobe taking the J1 lead and the national team’s Scotland friendly to Kaori Sakamoto’s world title, a high school weightlifting record, and a yokozuna ring‑entering ceremony at Narita.