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Exit poll suggests that Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is set to lose its majority in the House of Representatives in Sunday's snap election.

This puts the position of the new Prime Minister Shiba Shigaru in jeopardy.

He called the results a severe judgment on his party.

The LDP has dominated politics for almost seven decades, but a recent funding scandal has tarnished

its reputation.

Ayatollah Ali Khimini, Iran's supreme leader, made his first public appearance since Israel carried out

airstrikes on Iran.

He said that the attack should not be exaggerated or downplayed, but did not call for escalation.

Nor did Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister.

He said on Sunday that Israel's retaliatory attack over the weekend

was precise and powerful and achieved all of its objectives. the most of them in the north. On Sunday Antonio Gutierrez, the UN Secretary General,

described the situation in Northern Gaza as unbearable and harrowing.

Meanwhile, talks on a possible ceasefire reportedly resumed in Qatar.

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