News Headlines - 17 March 2016

▽Miitomo: Nintendo launches first smartphone game in Japan - BBC News

Nintendo has released its highly-anticipated debut smartphone game, Miitomo, in Japan... Early reviews of the app have been mixed.

▽Japan Tourism Agency asks spa operators to accept tattooed foreign tourists | The Japan Times

The latest request — the first of its kind by the agency — urges onsen operators to give more consideration to the cultural backgrounds of tattooed non-Japanese tourists, Shogo Akamichi, a Japan Tourism Agency official in charge of tourism promotion, said Thursday.

▽Denmark tops World Happiness Report; Burundi sits in last - UPI.com

Denmark regained the top spot as the world's happiest country in this year's World Happiness Report, beating out Switzerland, the previous year's winner.

▽Deal reached to scrap 'tampon tax', officials say - BBC News

Prime Minister David Cameron has secured support from other EU leaders to allow the UK to scrap the so-called "tampon tax", British officials say.
The deal would offer the flexibility that would allow the UK to introduce a zero rate of tax on sanitary products.

▽John Kerry: Isis is committing genocide in Syria and Iraq | The Guardian

The US has declared that Islamic State is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities, amid mounting global pressure to recognise atrocities committed in Iraq and Syria as a deliberate drive to wipe out certain religious groups.