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Good morning. Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has just announced that he will step down next month. We have more on this morning’s breaking story below, as well as in-depth reads about the EU’s dispute with Elon Musk and Starbucks’s new chief executive.
But first we turn to Europe, where rising wages in Germany are raising questions about September’s…
