Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes in Spain and Portugal due to Storm Marta, while voters in Japan cast their ballots in a parliamentary election, and Haiti's transitional council handed power to a new prime minister. Meanwhile, conservation efforts have led to the thriving of a snail species once thought extinct in Bermuda.
In Japan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sought a new mandate to push through an ambitious agenda, including increased defense spending and tougher immigration measures, according to Al Jazeera. The snap vote on Sunday was expected to deliver a resounding victory for her conservative coalition. Hundreds of people crowded into a park in Tokyo to see Takaichi just hours before the polls opened, according to Sky News, with a sense that something significant was unfolding.
Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council handed power to US-backed Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime on Saturday, after almost two years of tumultuous governance marked by rampant gang violence, Al Jazeera reported. The transfer of power took place under tight security, given Haiti's unstable political climate.
Storm Marta battered Spain and Portugal, forcing 11,000 people to flee their homes, Sky News reported. A man, believed to be about 70, died in Portugal after his car was swept away by flood water, and a second body was found in Malaga.
In other news, a button-sized snail, the greater Bermuda snail (Poecilozonites bermudensis), once feared extinct, is thriving again after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 of the molluscs, according to The Guardian. The snail was found in the fossil record but believed to have vanished from the North Atlantic archipelago. Special pods at Chester Zoo helped conservationists in their efforts.
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