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The Japanese Prime Minister and his wife arrive in Hanoi, Vietnam. Yoshihide Suga pays an official visit there from 18 to 20 October at the invitation of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. This is the first trip of the Japanese Prime Minister since he took office last September. IMAGES
Tokyo, Aug (EFE/EPA).-Yoshihide Suga, the front runner to replace Shinzo Abe as the Japanese prime minister, formally announced Wednesday his candidacy to lead the ruling party and underlined that he would seek to continue the policies of his predecessor.(Camera: FRANCK ROBICHON)FOOTAGE SHOWS A PRESS CONFERENCE BY CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY YOSHIHIDE SUGA IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal arrives at a roadblock set up on the A64 freeway near Carbonne, Haute-Garonne, after announcing the government's response to the demands of farmers, who have been protesting for over a week in France. IMAGES
Tokyo, Sep 3 (EFE/EPA).- Japan's prime minister said Friday that would not be running for re-election as leader of the ruling party, effectively announcing his resignation.Yoshihide Suga announced his decision at an extraordinary meeting of the executive board of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Friday, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.The prime minister, who has been the country's prime minister since September last year after the resignation of his predecessor Shinzo Abe, due to health reasons, will not participate in the LDP's internal elections that will be held on Sep. 29 to choose the party's leader and candidate for the next general elections in Japan. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE B-ROLL OF JAPAN'S PRIME MINISTER YOSHIHIDE SUGA AND PEDESTRIANS WALK A CROSSWAY IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
Yerevan, Jun 20 (EFE).- Armenians appear to have heeded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's appeal to give him a second chance after last year's disastrous war in Nagorno-Karabakh, giving his Civil Contract party a sweeping victory in Sunday's snap election."The people of Armenia have spoken and have made a clear decision," he told supporters in Yerevan.With the ballots counted from more than a third of the country's polling places, Civil Contract has 58.19 percent, compared with 18.71 percent for former President Robert Kocharyan's Armenia Alliance, according to the Central Electoral Commission. (Camera: NAREK ALEKSANYAN).SHOT LIST: MEMBERS OF A LOCAL ELECTION COMMISSION COUNT VOTES AT A POLLING STATION IN YEREVAN, ARMENIA.
US President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the White House on April 16, says White House press secretary Jen Psaki. "This will be our first in-person visit from a foreign leader in the Biden-Harris administration, reflecting the importance we place on our bilateral relationship with Japan, and our friendship and partnership with the Japanese people," she adds. SOUNDBITE