A man is running for governor of Japan’s Chiba Prefecture with a campaign focused on him dressing up as the Batman’s arch nemesis Joker. Yuusuke Kawai wore face paint, a red suit and a yellow pocket square when he appeared on television to launch his bid for office. His mad manifesto includes banning the word “trash” and replacing it with “star fragments”, and renaming Makuhari Station as “Makuhari Messe Isn’t Here Station”.
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Cocaine bear to hit big screen
A movie is being made about the true story of a bear that consumed a duffel bag full of cocaine in 1985. The 175-pound black bear was found next to a bag that had once been filled with more than 70 pounds of cocaine before it was hurled from a drug smuggler’s plane. “Its stomach was literally packed to the brim with cocaine. There isn’t a mammal on the planet that could survive that,” said a medical examiner.
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Le Pen back in the dock: the trial that’s shaking FranceIn the Spotlight Appealing her four-year conviction for embezzlement, the Rassemblement National leader faces an uncertain political future, whatever the result
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The doctors’ strikesThe Explainer Resident doctors working for NHS England are currently voting on whether to go out on strike again this year
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5 chilling cartoons about increasing ICE aggressionCartoons Artists take on respect for the law, the Fourth Amendment, and more
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Panama and Canada are negotiating over a crucial copper mineIn the Spotlight Panama is set to make a final decision on the mine this summer
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Why Greenland’s natural resources are nearly impossible to mineThe Explainer The country’s natural landscape makes the task extremely difficult
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Iran cuts internet as protests escalateSpeed Reada Government buildings across the country have been set on fire
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US nabs ‘shadow’ tanker claimed by RussiaSpeed Read The ship was one of two vessels seized by the US military
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How Bulgaria’s government fell amid mass protestsThe Explainer The country’s prime minister resigned as part of the fallout
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Femicide: Italy’s newest crimeThe Explainer Landmark law to criminalise murder of a woman as an ‘act of hatred’ or ‘subjugation’ but critics say Italy is still deeply patriarchal
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro behind bars after appeals run outSpeed Read He will serve 27 years in prison
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Americans traveling abroad face renewed criticism in the Trump eraThe Explainer Some of Trump’s behavior has Americans being questioned
