Japan's Suga elected as country's new PM

By Elaine Lies and Linda Sieg
Updated September 16 2020 - 5:21pm, first published 5:17pm
Yoshihide Suga has been elected as Japan's prime minister.
Yoshihide Suga has been elected as Japan's prime minister.

Japan's Yoshihide Suga has been voted prime minister by parliament to become the country's first new leader in nearly eight years, appointing a new cabinet that kept about half of the familiar faces from predecessor Shinzo Abe's line-up.

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