Category: 4. World

Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi was elected prime minister by parliament Tuesday, shattering Japan’s glass ceiling to become the country’s first female leader.

Takaichi avoided a…

Claims that President Trump bullied President Zelensky and urged him to withdraw from the whole of the Donbas at their latest meeting in Washington will doubtless cause the usual furore in the Western media and commentariat, but they cannot be…

Israeli forensics examiners have identified the remains of a deceased Israeli hostage handed over on Monday as those of Sergeant Major Tal Haimi, the prime minister’s office said.

Haimi was killed in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023,…

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza had been held in a notorious detention centre already facing allegations of torture and unlawful deaths in custody, officials from Gaza’s health ministry have told the…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s first conservative president-elect in 20 years, Rodrigo Paz, injected a sharp note of realism into his plans to tackle an economic crisis Monday, a day after his…

WASHINGTON, DC – A veteran American diplomat is casting serious doubt on the White House’s latest efforts to broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, arguing that Moscow is exploiting the process to its advantage and that President…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military has shut down a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet…

South Korean police said they would seek an arrest warrant for a woman who set fire to her apartment building while trying to kill a cockroach with an improvised flamethrower, local media report.

One of the woman’s neighbours died after falling to…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — About 50 South Koreans repatriated from Cambodia have been formally arrested on accusations they worked for online scam organizations in the Southeast Asian country.

They are…