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Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), at the party’s headquarters following the lower house election, at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s ruling coalition lost its parliamentary majority, with public broadcaster NHK projecting that the Liberal […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has given a measured response to Israeli strikes on the country, saying the attack should not be “exaggerated or downplayed” while refraining from pledging immediate retaliation. President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would “give an appropriate response” to the attack, which killed at least four soldiers, adding that Tehran did not […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion by Ukraine into southwestern Russia, a local official reported Sunday, months after Kyiv staged a bold assault on its nuclear-armed enemy that Moscow is still struggling to halt. An “armed group” sought Sunday to breach the border between Ukraine and Russia’s Bryansk […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Campaigning in Nevada today, Tim Walz has criticized Donald Trump’s planned rally at Madison Square Garden this evening as “a direct parallel” to a Nazi rally held at the venue in 1939. The comparison comes in the final days of a […]
CAIRO: Fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town, a doctors group and the United Nations said. It was the group’s latest attack against the Sudanese military after suffering a series of setbacks, losing ground to the […]
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European leaders promise to back Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” but they face public fatigue, a weakened political center and a possible Trump comeback. Source link
At Vatican Synod, Women’s Issues Are Relegated to a Side Group The New York Times Papal summit ends with call for leadership roles for women BBC.com Pope Francis’ Catholic church reform process ends without giving more equity to women CBS News Vatican meeting ends and hope fades for more change under Francis The Washington Post Called But Not Heard Commonweal […]
A Hindu politician has accused his Christian predecessor of allowing a temple’s sanctity to be violated with an animal product. Source link
Tokyo: Japan voted on Sunday in its tightest election in years, with new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his juggernaut Liberal Democratic Party facing potentially their worst result since 2009. Opinion surveys suggest the conservative LDP and its junior coalition partner risk falling short of a majority, a result that could deal a knockout blow […]