Coleman-RaynerBarker attendedDrury University on a basketball scholarship until he left to join the Navy Reservein 1943 duringWorld War IIto train as a fighter pilot but never served on active duty.

while pursuing important issues related to Japans future through a vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific that counters Chinas assertiveness in the region.where his party and its coalition partner control both houses.

Kishida replaces outgoing party leader Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.and vowed to stand up to China in tensions over self-ruled Taiwan that China claims as part of its territory.who angered the public over his handling of the pandemic and insistence on holding the Summer Olympics in Tokyo despite the surging infections.

he struck a 2015 agreement with South Korea to resolve a bilateral row over the issue of World War II women who were sexually abused by Japans wartime military - part of legacy that still hampers relations between the two countries.ending his nearly eight-year leadership.

the longest in Japans constitutional history.

Du Xiaoyi/Pool via REUTERS Tokyo Japans former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida won the governing party leadership election on Wednesday and is set to become the next prime minister.Prigozhin was indicted in the United States forinterfering in the 2016 presidential electionthrough his infamous internet troll factory.

5 Prighozin is believed to have died in a plane crash on Wednesday.5 The location of where the plane crashed.

whose volatile founder Yevgeny Prigozhin reportedly died in a plane crash WednesdayAPThe godfather for this project.