Japan

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi decided to bring forward the votes with the aim of increasing her support in Parliament. Polls say she will achieve her goal, but it will not be a regular election, as snowfall has forced a change in schedules in some polling stations.

The agreement encourages cooperation in key sectors such as renewable energy, medical devices and gastronomy. President Imanol Pradales has stressed that both sides share "the ambition and potential to be an international benchmark in clean technologies."

TEPCO will reactivate the world's largest nuclear power plant in January after receiving approval from local authorities.

Japan has deactivated the tsunami alert the day after the 7.5 degree earthquake that struck the north of the country on Monday, but the authorities have activated a special alert at the risk of an unusual earthquake in the coming days.

Authorities have evacuated more than 23,000 people due to the risk of waves of up to three metres. Tohoku Electric Power, operator of two nuclear power plants in the earthquake area, is assessing the situation in the factories.

Takaichi has won 237 out of 465 votes, four more than he needed. Shigeru Ishiba's resignation caused him to call a primary on October 4. Takaichi won the second round.

The party has resigned on the eve of a debate on an unusual advance of the primaries because, after the poor election results, it is to be expected that it would be removed from the leadership of both the party and the government. 

A minute of silence has been observed in Nagasaki to recall the 80th anniversary of the US launch of a nuclear bomb, which left some 74,000 dead, three days after another 140,000 people were killed in Hiroshima. Nipona authorities and survivors have called for learning from the horrors and for the tragic memory of 9 August 1945 to be remembered.

Joxerramon Bengoetxea has stressed the "importance of memory exercise." "We universities are obliged to do what is in our power to prevent it from recurring and to forget what happened."

Russia cancels the tsunami alert and remains alert in Central and South America, although alarms have been removed in most cases.

The 8.8-degree landslide has had its epicenter in the Russian region of Kamchatka: alerts have been activated in China, Japan, the US or Mexico. 

The President of the United States threatened to impose a 25% limit on imports from Japan.

A summary of what will be news today, in two words.

The latest polls suggest that the ultra-right-wing Sanseito Party will enter Parliament strongly and leave the ruling coalition in check.

These parliamentary elections are crucial for Ishiba's executive, who has ruled in a minority since  lost control of the lower house in last October's general election.