Japanâs Takaichi to call snap election
Prime minister hoping to consolidate grip on power by winning majority for ruling party...
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Prime minister hoping to consolidate grip on power by winning majority for ruling party...
US media reports say tariffs will be cut to 15 percent in exchange for TSMC investment....
Indonesiaâs ambitious free nutritious meals programme has fed more than 55 million people in its first year, a scale-up President Prabowo Subianto has hailed as a major step in tackling childhood maln...
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is demanding criminal penalties for crypto scams, including one that have drained elderly New Yorkers' life savings....
Z.AI released GLM-Image, trained entirely on Huawei chips, as Beijing moves to block Nvidia H200 imports in a push for AI self-reliance....
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott says further negotiations to garner bipartisan support for a key crypto-regulating bill are needed before it can advance....
A revised Senate CLARITY Act draft would allow activity-based stablecoin rewards tied to payments, wallets and staking, while barring interest paid solely for holding tokens....
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Low taxes, which are not in line with inflation, are ineffective in reducing alcohol or sugary drink consumption, the World Health Organization warns....
Danish and Greenlandic officials said they still have a âfundamental disagreementâ with President Donald Trump over Greenland after meeting in Washington with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of ...
Bill and Hillary Clinton have refused to testify in a Republican-controlled congressional committee's investigation into convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, accusing Republican chair James Comer...
Former US president and secretary of state accuse Republican chair of partisanship in handling case of late sex offender...
US president set to meet top aides at the White House about a possible intervention...
As Russian President Vladimir Putin focuses his attentions on Moscowâs war in Ukraine, his strategic allies around the world have been left feeling neglected â or worse. In Venezuela, officials now th...
US state sues Trump over ICE raids after fatal shooting of mother of three sparks nationwide protests....
My brother is one of many Palestinians Israel continues to illegally detain. Their release must be part of talks....
Ugandans lined up outside poll stations after a violent campaign saw hundreds of supporters of President Museveni 's opponent arrested....
Inflation held steady in December, continuing to prove stubborn just days after reports of a Department of Justice probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell....
Slotkin said she won't be silenced by the investigation....
President declines to rule out military action after Washington evacuated personnel from Qatar command centre...