VOA60: September 8, 2021

In Japan, former Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi is among the candidates seeking to become prime minister.

In Hong Kong, a pro-democracy group says police arrested four of its leaders for not cooperating with an investigation into the group’s efforts to mark the 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing.

In Indonesia, the justice and human rights minister visits a prison near Jakarta where a fire killed 41 and injured 80 others.

And in Mexico, no injuries are reported from a powerful earthquake centered in Acapulco that shook the capital Mexico City.

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