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Couche-Tard drops $47 bil. bid to buy Seven-Eleven parent company

Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2024, shows the headquarters of Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. near Montreal. The retailer said on July 16, 2025, that it has withdrawn its $47 billion buyout proposal for Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of the Seven-Eleven convenience store chain, following a year of talks.

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Couche-Tard drops $47 bil. bid to buy Seven-Eleven parent company

Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2024, shows a convenience store operated by Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. in Montreal. The retailer said on July 16, 2025, that it has withdrawn its $47 billion buyout proposal for Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of the Seven-Eleven convenience store chain, following a year of talks.

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APEC summit

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba takes part in the second day of a two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in Lima on Nov. 16, 2024.

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Ramon Magsaysay Award

Kenichi Yoda (C), director of Studio Ghibli, co-founded by Japanese anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, attends a ceremony of the Ramon Magsaysay Award on behalf of Miyazaki, one of the five recipients in 2024, in Manila on Nov. 16, 2024. The organization behind the award -- named after the Philippines' seventh president and known as "Asia's Nobel Prize" -- said in August that the 83-year-old makes complex issues like environmental destruction and conflict understandable to children in his works, including the Oscar-winning films "The Boy and the Heron" and "Spirited Away."

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Event on North Korean abduction issue

Hitomi Soga, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea in 1978 before being repatriated in 2002, speaks to reporters on Nov. 16, 2024, after attending an event in the central Japan city of Niigata, to mark the 47th anniversary of the abduction of Megumi Yokota. Yokota was abducted by North Korea at age 13 on Nov. 15, 1977, and has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s.

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Event on North Korean abduction issue

Tetsuya Yokota, a younger brother of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks on Nov. 16, 2024, at an event in the central Japan city of Niigata to mark the 47th anniversary of the abduction on Nov. 15.

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Event on North Korean abduction issue

Tetsuya (L) and Takuya Yokota, younger brothers of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks to reporters on Nov. 16, 2024, after attending an event in the central Japan city of Niigata, to mark the 47th anniversary of the abduction on Nov. 15.

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Event on North Korean abduction issue

Sakie Yokota, mother of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks online on Nov. 16, 2024, at an event in the central Japan city of Niigata, to mark the 47th anniversary of the abduction on Nov. 15.

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Protesters at COP29

Protesters gather at the venue of the 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, dubbed COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 16, 2024, calling for developed countries to take responsibility for the greenhouse gasses they have emitted.

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Protesters at COP29

Protesters gather at the venue of the 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, dubbed COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 16, 2024, calling for developed countries to take responsibility for the greenhouse gasses they have emitted.

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Protesters at COP29

Protesters gather at the venue of the 29th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, dubbed COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 16, 2024, calling for developed countries to take responsibility for the greenhouse gasses they have emitted.

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Hyogo gubernatorial election

Former Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito (top) gives a stump speech in Kobe on Nov. 16, 2024, during his campaign for the western Japan prefecture's gubernatorial election.

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APEC summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) waves after taking part in a photo session on the second day of a two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in Lima on Nov. 16, 2024.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama (C) poses after winning gold in the men's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024, alongside silver medalist Kevin Aymoz (L) of France and bronze medalist Daniel Grassl of Italy.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama poses after winning gold in the men's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama poses after winning gold in the men's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama poses after winning gold in the men's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Hana Yoshida holds a press conference after winning gold in the women's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Hana Yoshida (R) poses after winning gold in the women's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024, alongside silver medalist Rino Matsuike of Japan.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Hana Yoshida (C) poses after winning gold in the women's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024, alongside silver medalist Rino Matsuike (L) of Japan and bronze medalist Lara Naki Gutmann of Italy.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Hana Yoshida (R) poses after winning gold in the women's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024, alongside silver medalist Rino Matsuike of Japan.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Hana Yoshida (C) poses after winning gold in the women's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024, alongside silver medalist Rino Matsuike (L) of Japan and bronze medalist Lara Naki Gutmann of Italy.

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Figure skating: Finlandia Trophy

Japan's Hana Yoshida (C) poses after winning gold in the women's event at the Finlandia Trophy figure skating competition in Helsinki on Nov. 16, 2024, alongside silver medalist Rino Matsuike (L) of Japan and bronze medalist Lara Naki Gutmann of Italy.

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