The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan PM won't go to U.S., Australia before mid-Jan., to focus on COVIDTOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday he has given up on visiting the United States and Australia for in-person summit talks before the start of a regular parliamentary session in mid-January and will focus on the COVID-19 response at home instead.Kishida said he had been seeking to meet U.S. President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison as he aims to step up summit diplomacy this year.---------…READ FULL ARTICLE