Japan’s ruling party elects Sanae Takaichi as leader, likely to become first female PM – NPR

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  1. Japan’s ruling party elects Sanae Takaichi as leader, likely to become first female PM  NPR
  2. Japan Is Set for Its First Female Prime Minister  The New York Times
  3. Becoming Japan's First Woman Prime Minister Is the Easy Part  Time Magazine
  4. Japan’s ruling party elects Sanae Takaichi as new leader, likely to become first female PM  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
  5. Inspired by Thatcher, Japan's PM-in-waiting Takaichi smashes glass ceiling  Reuters
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Japan poised to get first female PM after Sanae Takaichi wins ruling party leadership

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Margaret Thatcher admirer beat her more moderate rival to become leader of Liberal Democratic party

Japan is poised to get its first female prime minister after Sanae Takaichi was elected as leader of the governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP) – a victory that should lead to her being installed as the country’s new leader in the middle of the month.

Takaichi, a rightwing politician who has voiced admiration for Margaret Thatcher in her quest to build a “strong and prosperous” Japan on the international stage, beat her moderate rival, Shinjiro Koizumi, in a runoff election at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Saturday.

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Bodies of two women who died in Victorian high country might have been there ‘two or three days’, police say

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Police are working to identify the women and ask anyone who had seen two women appearing ‘disoriented’ in the area earlier to contact Crime Stoppers

Emergency services have recovered the bodies of two women who died in “blizzard conditions” in the Victorian high country.

The bodies of the women were found by hikers near a remote hut at Nelse, about 400km north-east of Melbourne, on Friday afternoon. Their deaths are not considered to be suspicious, police said.

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Potential contempt charges in relation to Kyle and Jackie O comments on Erin Patterson still under consideration

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Office of public prosecutions says decision has ‘not yet been finalised’, four months after judge referred comments including Kyle Sandilands saying ‘lock that bitch up’

The Victorian office of public prosecutions has yet to rule out contempt charges in relation to comments made on the Kyle and Jackie O Show about the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, four months after the co-hosts were criticised by a supreme court judge.

Justice Christopher Beale referred the comments to the office for contempt proceedings in June, after Kyle Sandilands made comments including, “just lock that bitch up” and called the case “not strong for her”.

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Europe needs to ‘get serious’ about threat posed to it by Russia, Ukraine minister says

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Sergiy Kyslytsya says Kremlin already at war with Europe and predicts that Vladimir Putin will ‘escalate escalating’

Europe needs to “get serious” about the existential threat posed to it by Russia, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister has said, warning that Vladimir Putin will “escalate escalating”.

In an interview with the Guardian, Sergiy Kyslytsya – Kyiv’s former ambassador to the UN – said the Kremlin was already at war with Europe. He said Russia’s recent drone incursions against several EU countries were well-calculated and an attempt to “move the red lines”.

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