The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan, U.S., S. Korea affirm efforts to denuclearize N. KoreaTOKYO - Senior diplomats from Japan, the United States and South Korea agreed Tuesday to continue their efforts toward the denuclearization of North Korea through "dialogue and sanctions," a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.Their meeting in Tokyo came a day after Pyongyang said it had successfully carried out tests of a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend.----------Japan ex-defense chief Ishiba not running in LDP leadership raceTO…READ FULL ARTICLE