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Video: Applause in parliament as Japan gets first female prime minister
There was applause in Japan's parliament as members voted in the country’s first woman prime minister.
Despite US push, China poised to dominate rare earths for years
Breaking China's stranglehold on supplies of the critical minerals is likely to take at least a decade, experts say.
George Springer’s Game 7 home run sends Blue Jays into MLB World Series
Springer's three-run homer against Seattle put Toronto Blue Jays into the World Series for the first time in 32 years.
Myanmar military arrests more than 2,000 people at infamous scam centre
The military also confiscated 30 Starlink satellites from the sprawling KK Park scam centre on the border with Thailand.
Live: More Palestinians killed in Gaza; US officials visit Israel for talks
Deadly Israeli attacks have continued across Gaza as US VP and other officials visit Israel for ceasefire talks.
University of Arizona latest to turn down Trump’s university compact
Seven of nine institutions approached by the Trump administration have now declined to sign new federal funding rules.
US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies at 29
The California-born player won the Under 12 world championship and became a grandmaster at 18.
Palestinian woman attacked by Israeli settler while harvesting olives
An Israeli settler assaulted a Palestinian woman while she was harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank town of Turmu
Charged for saying ‘I love Muhammad’, India’s Muslims decry gov’t crackdown
Several BJP-ruled states file cases against hundreds of Muslims, most of them in Uttar Pradesh, for raising the chant.
What caused Amazon’s AWS outage, and why did so many major apps go offline?
Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that supports a portion of the internet, experienced a massive outage on Monday.