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Japan’s prime minister still secured a majority
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s coalition has secured a majority in the National Assembly, even though they lost a few seats in this weekend’s election.
Kishida’s conservative party LDP and coalition partner Komeito won 293 seats, well above the 233 needed for a majority. Previously, they had 305 seats out of 465 in the National Assembly.
The election was seen as an important test for the new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who took over less than a month ago while the government struggled with low support.
Seven officers are asking for mercy for Guantanamo Bay prisoners
Seven American officers who last week sentenced a Guantanamo detainee to 26 years in prison for terror and war crimes are asking for his pardon.
Pakistani Majid Khan told the jury in the trial against him about how he was tortured by the CIA after he was arrested in Karachi in 2003.
He was convicted in a military court at Guantanamo Bay on Friday. But seven of the eight officers who sat on the jury wrote a letter on Sunday calling the torture treatment he received “a dark spot on America’s moral fiber” and asking that he be pardoned.
30 coronary heart disease after burial in Telemark
30 cases of infection in Bamble in Telemark are linked to a funeral. The municipality currently has an increasing infection trend.
It is over two weeks since an infection was found at a funeral at Stathelle in Bamble municipality, writes Varden.
This weekend, eight new cases were registered in the municipality, where several of them are linked to the funeral.
Several fires in Drammen and Lier – the police believe they have been set on fire
On Sunday evening, the emergency services responded to a number of small fires around Drammen. Later in the evening, two rubbish bins also burned in Lier, where a girl was arrested.
She is a minor, and interrogations will be carried out in her home, the police inform NTB.
– She was seen in the area, and we also went in search of a police dog that went from one crime scene to another and looked in her direction, says operations manager Tore Grindheim in the Southeast police district.
The Prime Minister of Northern Macedonia resigns
Northern Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev says he is stepping down after his party did poorly in the local elections this weekend.
Zaev was elected prime minister in 2017 after ten years with a right-wing government under Nikola Gruevski. Gruevski’s government was shaken by a major wiretapping scandal that Zaev helped uncover.
Zaev, who is a social democrat, is considered a provincial reform politician, and in 2018 entered into an agreement with Greece to change the country’s name from Macedonia to northern Macedonia.
(©NTB)
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