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Japan’s parliament re-elects PM Shigeru Ishiba despite bruising election result | Japan newsthirst.

Japan’s parliament re-elected the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, on Monday after his governing coalition suffered the worst election loss in more than a decade. Ishiba’s ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) and its junior partner, Komeito, together lost their majority in the 465-seat lower house, the more powerful of Japan’s two-house parliament, in the 27 October…

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Riddells Creek truck crash: teacher’s aide dead and three-year-old boy seriously injured at Victorian kindergarten | Victoria newsthirst.

A woman is dead and a child remains in hospital with serious injuries after a truck crashed into a kindergarten in a regional Victoria town, police say. Victoria police said the truck was believed to have crashed into a kindergarten in Riddells Creek, about 45km north-west of Melbourne, at about 2.20pm on Monday. A 43-year-old…

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Trump says former Ice director Tom Homan will be in charge of borders and deportations | Donald Trump newsthirst.

US president-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), will be in charge of the country’s borders in his new administration. Homan’s areas of control will include “the southern border, the northern border, all maritime, and aviation security”, Trump said in a post on…

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