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World in brief: October 26, 2026
JAPAN : Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who led the country for just one year between 2007-2008 and spent years afterward trying to build better ties with China, has died, officials said
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He died on Thursday, the governing Liberal Democratic Party said, without disclosing further details.
GAZA: A ceasefire agreement in Gaza has not stopped what a group of independent UN experts describe is genocide carried out by Israel in the territory, the team said in a new report yesterday. They also accused Israeli forces of crimes against humanity, including torture and rape, in the West Bank.
Israel’s mission in Geneva called for the commission’s dissolution and said the report was an example of the body’s “misinformation campaign to demonise the state of Israel and portray its very existence as criminal.”
BULGARIA: Bulgaria’s next president will be elected in a run-off vote after a close race between the two main contenders ended inconclusively, official results showed yesterday.
The Central Election Commission said that incumbent Iliana Yotova attracted 34.8 per cent compared with 32 per cent for opposition candidate Andrey Gyurov.
According to polling agencies the turnout for the poll was only 22 per cent.
IRAQ: Iraq’s government said yesterday that a Yazidi armed group in the northern district of Sinjar would be dissolved and its fighters would join the country’s official security forces.
The Sinjar Resistance Units played a significant role in fighting against Islamic State militants, who advanced across Sinjar in 2014, killing and enslaving thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority.