The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Tokyo, others ask to extend COVID quasi-emergency as Omicron ragesTOKYO - Tokyo and 12 other prefectures currently under a COVID-19 quasi-state of emergency have requested an extension to the measure set to end this weekend, the prefectural governments said Tuesday.Japan has been struggling to stem a new wave of infections spurred by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the virus.----------Biden's visit to Japan eyed in latter half of May: sourceTOKYO - The U.S. government has proposed the latter half…READ FULL ARTICLE