The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Tokyo Olympic ceremony director sacked for Holocaust jokeTOKYO - The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee on Thursday fired a director of the creative team behind the games' opening and closing ceremonies for joking in the past about the Holocaust, the decision coming just a day before the start of the global sporting event.The dismissal of former comedian Kentaro Kobayashi is the latest in a series of embarrassments for the organizing body of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which are being held under unpr…READ FULL ARTICLE