Japanese opposition parties merge in challenge to Takaichi
Centrist bloc including ruling party’s former coalition partner raises risks for PM ahead of expected snap election...
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Centrist bloc including ruling party’s former coalition partner raises risks for PM ahead of expected snap election...
The EU and the Mercosur trading bloc of five Latin American nations seal a sweeping trade pact....
Rising numbers of older people across the continent are straining budgets and making for some difficult political decisions...
Shares in the world’s largest oilfield services company have risen by 14% since US capture of Nicolás Maduro...
Letter seen by FT appears to undermine claims that chair of US central bank misled Congress over renovation...
A police complaint against one of Indonesia’s best-known comedians has reignited debate over satire, blasphemy and free expression in the world’s third-largest democracy. The case involves 46-year-old...
Australia’s former prime minister and a prominent China scholar, Kevin Rudd, will step down as ambassador to the United States a year ahead of schedule, a move some analysts say underscores a fundamen...
In 2025, India approved a number of major defence packages, together worth US$30 billion. Such rapid procurement approvals are relatively rare by Indian standards. However, what they signal to the reg...
French farmers steered some 350 tractors on January 11 toward French Parliament to protest low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America that they fear threatens their livelihoods. They say thei...
Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refu...
Citi reported fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images Citi's CFO Mark Mason said Trump's proposed credit card cap would have a 'deleterious' impact on the economy. ...
The German reconnaissance team is among the groups of European military personnel who are scheduled to arrive in Greenland on Thursday....
Cut off from the outside world, Iran has been convulsed by some of the worst violence since the 1979 Islamic revolution...
Ugandans voted in a tense national election on Thursday after an often violent campaign and internet shutdown, with President Yoweri Museveni seeking to extend his rule into a fifth decade. Museveni ...
Public health experts agree that a clear definition of ultra-processed foods is needed to shape policy decisions for our food system....
Klingbeil listed a string of reasons for his belief that ties between the United States and Europe, traditionally close allies, were radically changing....
A social media account called "Raise the Colours Operation France" late last year posted videos of far-right activists on France's northern coastline....
The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers will meet US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Wednesday....
Enrolment at Harvard for Chinese students rose in the autumn from a year earlier, even as the Donald Trump administration moved to rein in visas for them and limit foreign enrolment and funding at the...
US President Donald Trump is expected to get a briefing over sanction options against Iran, as Washington has been threatening to act against the country. But according to US newspaper Wall Street Jou...