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Fumio Kishida, right, is shown with his arms raised celebrating with Yoshihide Suga who is standing next to him.

Fumio Kishida set to become Japan’s next prime minister

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Top of The World: Fumio Kishida, Japan’s former foreign minister, has won the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election, all but assuring he’ll become the country’s next prime minister. And, senators in Washington on Tuesday grilled top Pentagon officials over the chaotic and violent US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Also, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to ease concerns over fuel shortages in the country by placing army troops on standby to help distribute gasoline.

A police officer is show standing next to a police car with its lights on and a grocery store in the distance.

Six people injured in New Zealand in ISIS-inspired attack

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A crowd of people are show walking in various directions outside of a railway station in Tokyo with tall buildings in the background.

Officials in Tokyo alarmed as virus cases hit record highs

Tokyo Olympics
Two military personnel are shown wearing fatigues, black masks and carrying large rifles.

Suspects killed over Haiti assassination in a stunned nation

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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, is shown wearing a light colored blazer with his hands handcuffed behind his back.

Pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai sentenced in Hong Kong

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A protester is shown wearing a white radiation protection suit and holding a sign with cuts of fish and the radioactive symbol.

Japan to start releasing Fukushima water into sea in 2 years

Environment

Japan’s government announced Tuesday it would start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years.

Japan National Stadium is shown in the distance from the vantage of a glass observatory where three women are standing.

Amid cancellation talk, Tokyo Olympics ‘focused on hosting’

Sports

Tokyo Games were postponed 10 months ago at the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, and now the event appears threatened again.

A Boeing 737 Max jet is shown in the air with its wheels down prepared for a landing.

House report faults Boeing, FAA; Yoshihide Suga elected new PM of Japan; Report alleges Venezuela committed human rights abuses

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A House committee has issued a report condemning Boeing as the FAA over two fatal 737 Max crashes. Japan’s parliament has voted for Yoshihide Suga to become the country’s first new prime minister in almost eight years. UN investigators have said that security forces in Venezuela committed systematic human rights abuses.

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