Peru’s President announced on Sunday that he had granted a medical pardon to Alberto Fujimori, the nation’s former leader in the 1990s. He was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses.

A female legislator at a local assembly was forced to leave the chamber on Wednesday after she brought her infant son with her. She said she wanted to show the difficulty for women to juggle careers and child-raising.

In Sunday’s Lower House election, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito won a two-thirds majority, which would allow them to push for a revision of the pacifist Constitution.

Yukio Edano, the deputy president of the moribund main opposition Democratic Party, has started preparing to form a new party for its liberal members, who are likely to be excluded from the Party of Hope led by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike.

Japan’s Prime Minister announced on Monday to dissolve the lower house at the beginning of the extraordinary session this week, while Tokyo’s female governor officially formed a national party to give voters an alternative to the ruling coalition in the upcoming general election.

US President Donald Trump called North Korea and a few other nations “rogue regimes” in his first speech at a UN General Assembly on Tuesday. He said his country may have to destroy Pyongyang if it threatens its neighbors.

Japan’s Defense Minister resigned on Friday to take responsibility for a cover-up scandal involving daily activity logs of GSDF units in South Sudan. The Foreign Minister has taken over her duties to serve the two posts until a Cabinet reshuffle scheduled for next week.

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would withdraw from the Paris accord on climate change, which he views as an obstacle to his goal of creating jobs and promoting economic growth in his country.

A former vice minister of education told a news conference on Thursday that documents exist linking Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the decision to approve a veterinary medicine faculty at a university run by a close friend of Abe.

Independent centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron was elected as France’s youngest president on Sunday. The former investment banker is married to his former teacher, who is 25 years his senior.

The Japanese prime minister expressed support on Friday for the resolve of the United States after its missile strikes on a Syrian air base, from which a chemical attack was allegedly launched.

The Chief Cabinet Secretary stressed on Friday that the decision to end the Ground Self-Defense Force’s peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in May was not made out of security concerns.