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- Japan is facing its second major storm in a week. Typhoon Kong-rey, now classified as a severe tropical storm, is battering the country’s southwestern regions.
- This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two people for their efforts to end the use of rape as a weapon of conflict.
- Tokyo’s Tsukiji Wholesale Market, often dubbed the “ Kitchen of Japan,” permanently shuts at noon on Sunday, bringing the curtain down on 85 years of trade.
- A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has hit the northern prefecture of Hokkaido.
- Typhoon Kong-rey is battering Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa.
- A U.S. research group says the dismantling work in a North Korean missile launch site has been halted since early August.
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed hope that his planned visit to Pyongyang will lead to progress in paving the way for North Korea’s denuclearization process.
- The death toll has now topped 1,400 from the powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday.
- Peru’s Supreme Court has annulled a medical pardon granted to former president Albert Fujimori and ordered he be returned to prison.