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Lawyers of a claimant, Kazuyuki Minami, left, and Masafumi Yoshida, right, speak to media after the ruling of the Supreme Court Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in Tokyo. Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring transgender people to have sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Japan’s top court strikes down required sterilization surgery to officially change gender
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Wed,10/25/23-12:22AM , 66 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional, a landmark verdict welcomed by advocates as a sign of growing acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights.
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United States and Chinese flags are set up before a meeting between Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, on July 8, 2023. China said the United States is the "biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability" in the world in a scathing response Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023 to a Pentagon report on China's growing military buildup. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool, File)

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China said the US is a disruptor of peace in response to Pentagon report on China’s military buildup
By HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press
Tue,10/24/23-9:51PM , 176 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — China said the United States is the “biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability” in the world in a scathing response Wednesday to a Pentagon report on China's growing military buildup.
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Palestinians wait to cross into Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Oct.16, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

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Stranded at a closed border as bombs fall, foreign nationals in besieged Gaza await evacuation
By ISABEL DEBRE AND NAJIB JOBAIN - Associated Press
Tue,10/24/23-11:29AM , 59 Reads
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — For more than a week, Talaat Ghabayen, a citizen of Norway who spent his whole life in Oslo, has waited days and nights at the Gaza Strip's land crossing with Egypt as his embassy advised, hoping to flee
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Tourists swim in Acapulco, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Hurricane Otis has strengthened from tropical storm to a major hurricane in a matter of hours as it approaches Mexico's southern Pacific coast where it was forecast to make landfall near the resort of Acapulco early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Bernardino Hernandez)

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Hurricane Otis now a catastrophic Category 5 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast nearing Acapulco
By JOSÉ ANTONIO RIVERA AND MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press
Tue,10/24/23-8:22AM , 89 Reads
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Residents of Mexico's once glamorous port of Acapulco and surrounding coastal towns braced for the arrival of the “potentially catastrophic” Hurricane Otis, a rapidly intensifying Category 5 hurricane that stirred memories of a 1997 storm that killed dozens of people.
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