The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.

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China bans operators from processing seafood originating in Japan

BEIJING - China on Friday banned food production operators from purchasing or using seafood originating in Japan to process it for sale, a day after suspending all marine product imports from the neighboring country.

The fresh measure was announced in response to Japan's release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea that started Thursday. China vehemently opposes the ocean discharge.

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Tritium not detected in samples from waters off Fukushima plant

TOKYO - No detectable amount of tritium was found in seawater samples taken from off the site of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, where Japan began disposing of treated radioactive water into the nearby sea, the plant's operator said Friday.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. released the results after analyzing the samples, taken from 10 locations within a distance of 3 kilometers of the power plant, a few hours after the water discharge began on Thursday.

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July duty-free sales at Japan dept. stores top pre-pandemic levels

TOKYO - Duty-free sales at department stores across Japan totaled 31.3 billion yen ($214 million) in July, surpassing the pre-pandemic levels of 2019 for the same month thanks to the return of individual travelers from mainland China, data by an industry body showed Friday.

It marked the first time duty-free sales for a single month exceeded such levels since March 2020, when the number of foreign visitors to Japan plummeted, the Japan Department Stores Association said.

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Trump surrenders at jail, becomes 1st ex-U.S. president to have mug shot

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former U.S. president to have a mug shot taken when he surrendered at an Atlanta jail to be booked on charges related to his attempts to reverse his 2020 election loss in Georgia.

Trump, facing his fourth indictment in the last five months, has agreed to a $200,000 bond and other bail conditions, including not threatening witnesses or his 18 co-defendants. He was released after a speedy booking process which lasted about 20 minutes and also saw him fingerprinted.

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Protests held in Fiji, New Zealand against Fukushima water release

SYDNEY - Protesters in Fiji and New Zealand on Friday protested the release of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant that began the previous day, amid ongoing concerns over its impact on the Pacific Ocean, local media reports said.

Nearly 400 people took to the streets of Suva, Fiji's capital, and chanted, "Protect our ocean and our future generations," while calling on the Pacific country's parliamentarians to wield their influence to prevent Japan's water release, Fiji Broadcasting Corp. reported.

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2 missing after cargo ship capsizes off western Japan

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A cargo ship capsized late on Thursday off Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, after colliding with another freighter and causing five crew members to fall overboard, of which two remain missing, the country's coast guard said Friday.

The search continues for the two missing persons who were aboard the Japanese-registered 499-ton Izumi Maru, with one of them being the captain, who is in his 50s, according to the Japan Coast Guard and the ship's owner, Tokyo-based Izumikaiun Co. The three other members have been rescued.

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India's Modi, China's Xi agree on de-escalation of border tension

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to work toward "expeditious disengagement and de-escalation" in a disputed Himalayan border area.

The leaders met briefly Thursday on the sidelines of a three-day summit in Johannesburg of the BRICS countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- that concluded the same day, according to India's Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra.

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Woman, parents arrested over Sapporo murder to face psychiatric tests

SAPPORO - A woman and her parents who have been arrested over the alleged murder of a man found decapitated in a hotel in Sapporo will undergo psychiatric evaluations, investigative sources said Friday.

Runa Tamura, 29, her father, Osamu, a 59-year-old psychiatrist, and her mother Hiroko, 60, will be detained for six months from Monday through Feb. 28 for tests. The period of detention is longer than the two to three months commonly set for such assessments, the sources said.