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In Japan's House of Councilors, or upper house, 50 of the 241 representatives -- 20% -- are women. Rwanda topped the IPU list, with women representing 61% of lower house seats. France ranked 16th with 39.7% and the United States was 78th with 23.5%. Facing an aging population, the government has tried to close the gender gap in the workforce with a policy dubbed "womenomics." Last year, a law was passed encouraging political parties to set targets for gender parity. However, there are no incentives or penalties for parties which fail to do so. In the same year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appointed just one woman to his new cabinet -- by claiming she had the "presence of two or three women," according to local reports. But they only made up 10.1% of prefectural assemblies and 9.9% of town and village assemblies, according to data from the Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office. "Female politicians in Japan must battle against the commonplace view that politics belongs to men," said Fujie Masahiro, a section leader at the Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office. "They also face barriers when it comes to juggling family and political life."

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BUENOS AIRES (The Borowitz Report)—In an unusual display of unity by an often fractious organization, the leaders of the G-20 nations voted unanimously on Saturday to deny Donald J. Trump’s urgent request for asylum. Prior to the vote, Trump had been heard asking colleagues ranging from Angela Merkel to Xi Jinping for safe harbor in their countries, sweetening his request with offers of free luxury penthouses in Trump buildings around the globe. In the most stunning insult to Trump, his closest allies, Vladimir Putin and Mohammed bin Salman, responded to his asylum request by laughing uproariously in his face and high-fiving each other. After the resolution to deny Trump asylum passed by a 19–0 vote, international observers said that they had never seen the G-20 act with such enthusiastic solidarity. “Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron were practically peeing themselves,” one observer said. After receiving the resounding rebuke from the G-20, Trump grumpily withdrew to his hotel room, where he reportedly placed several calls to Kim Jong Un that went straight to voice mail.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly canceled his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin two days before they were scheduled to sit down on the sidelines of the G20 summit. #CNN #News

President Trump says his scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit may not happen after Russia seized Ukrainian naval vessels and their crews; reaction from Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.…

An exhaustive report in the New York Times is laying out everything we know about Russian hacking in the 2016 U.S. election and the subsequent investigation. Stephanie Ruhle speaks with one of the New York Times’ reporters – Scott Shane…