News Headlines - 30 July 2019

▽Unlawful sales of Japan Post Insurance products found - Japan Today

Some post office workers forged documents or engaged in other unlawful practices in selling the products of Japan Post Insurance Co in fiscal 2018, internal documents showed Monday.
The revelation adds to the scandal involving the insurance arm of Japan Post Holdings Co, which has admitted to mismanagement in connection with more than 90,000 insurance policies, including cases in which customers were forced to pay premiums for new and old insurance policies even after terminating their old contracts.

▽Fukushima gov. accepts TEPCO decision to scrap Daini nuclear plant

Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori said Tuesday his prefecture will accept Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s recent decision to scrap the Fukushima Daini nuclear complex near the Daiichi plant crippled by the March 2011 disaster.
In a meeting with Tomoaki Kobayakawa, the president of the utility known as TEPCO, the governor also accepted its plan to build an on-site storage facility to store spent nuclear fuel.
The decision means all 10 nuclear reactors in the northeastern prefecture, including the six at the Fukushima Daiichi complex 12 kilometers from the Daini plant, will be scrapped, though the decommissioning work will take decades.

▽French MPs warn of threat to democracy after offices attacked

A group of French MPs complained Tuesday that the country was becoming "used to the intolerable" after a rash of attacks on the offices of lawmakers from President Emmanuel Macron's party by opponents of a free-trade agreement with Canada.
In an open letter published on the website of France Info public radio, 20 lawmakers from Macron's centrist Republic on the Move party and the allied MoDem party complained of MPs having their constituency offices "walled in or smashed" or their homes targeted "because they supposedly misvoted".

▽A Smelly Flight to London Had to Be Grounded at Logan Airport

One particularly bad day smell-wise on an American Airlines flight to London forced a plane from Philadelphia en route to the UK to land unexpectedly at Logan Airport in Boston just before midnight on Sunday, the airline says.
According to a statement from American, several flight attendants complained about a “possible odor” in the cabin of the airplane and said they felt sickened by the smell. In all, the airline says, 10 of 12 members of the flight’s crew were evaluated at a local hospital and released. There were 154 customers on the flight, but the airline says none of them “experienced any issues.”

▽Meghan guest edits British Vogue, features "Forces for Change" women

Meghan, wife of Britain's Prince Harry, has chosen to feature 15 women she considers "Forces for change" on the cover of the September issue of British Vogue that she guest edited, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday.
The Duchess of Sussex, who gave birth to her first child in May, spent seven months working with British Vogue's Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful on the issue... The cover of the magazine, which will be available on Aug. 2, features names like teenage climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, boxer Ramla Ali and actress and women's rights advocate Salma Hayek Pinault.