1. Japan’s Emperor Natuhito and Empress Masako are on a state visit to the United Kingdom. On Monday, the Emperor visited a place he had developed a fondness for: the River Thames. He went to the Thames Barrier, the flood control gates that have protected London for more than four decades. He studied the history of the waterway during postgraduate research at the University of Oxford soon after the gates were built.
2. Japanese schools in China are tightening their security following an attack on a bus carrying Japanese schoolchildren in Suzhou, eastern China. Officials of the Japanese Consulate-General in Shanghai say a Japanese mother and her child were injured in the attack. A Chinese bus attendant was stabbed and is in critical condition.
3. At least 20 people were reportedly killed in the attacks by armed groups against multiple facilities in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan. Local health authorities said police officers were among those killed, and that 26 people were wounded.
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