Reuters, Tokyo
Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first woman governor on Sunday, after two predecessors stepped down over scandals that clouded the city’s preparations to host the 2020 summer Olympic Games.
Yuriko Koike, Japan’s first female defence minister, beat former bureaucrat and fellow member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party Hiroya Masuda, as well as liberal journalist Shuntaro Torigoe, according to an exit poll by public broadcaster NHK.
6,500 migrants rescued in Italy
AFP, Rome
The Italian coastguard said the bodies of five migrants were recovered from the Mediterranean Sunday, while more than 6,500 people had been rescued off Libya since Thursday.
In one operation by the Italian navy vessel Vega, “five migrants were picked up out of the sea, three people were resuscitated and two were already dead,” the coastguard said on its Twitter account.
IS calls on members to carry out jihad
in Russia
Reuters, Cairo
Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia in a nine-minute YouTube video on Sunday.
“Listen Putin, we will come to Russia and will kill you at your homes … Oh Brothers, carry out jihad and kill and fight them,” a masked man driving a car in the desert yelled while wagging his finger in the last couple of minutes of the video.
Mother, daughter gang-raped in India
AFP, New Delhi
A mother and her teenage daughter were allegedly gang-raped in a field after being dragged from their car outside New Delhi, police said on Sunday, India’s latest brutal sexual attack. A gang of robbers allegedly stopped the family’s car along a busy highway early on Saturday, said additional director general of police Daljeet Chaudhary.
The mother has told officers that she and her 14-year-old daughter were pulled from the vehicle and raped by six men.
The family’s four male members have said they were tied up with ropes and their belongings stolen while the attack took place, Chaudhary told AFP.
