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What Takaichi’s Big Election Win Means for Japan’s Conservative Future
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament. It also gives her the political power to make a strong rightward shift in Japan’s security, immigrati…
Japan’s Sanae Takaichi wins a landslide in snap election, exit polls project
Japan’s conservative prime minister Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide victory after she gambled on a high-stakes snap election, exit polls suggest.
Takaichi, who took office in October after being elected leader of the governing Liberal Democratic Par…
Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ bets the house
When Sanae Takaichi first ran for the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party, which has dominated Japanese politics for much of the past eight decades, she was eliminated in the first round with less than 20 per cent of the vote.…
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Trump Endorses Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ Takaichi Ahead Of Sunday Election
Tokyo: U.S. President Donald Trump gave his “total endorsement” of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of a national election in Japan on Sunday, adding he looked forward to hosting her at the White House next month.…
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MGM China Reports 2025 Annual Results
Revenue, Adjusted EBITDA and Marketshare
Continued to Grow to All-Time High
HONG KONG, Feb. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MGM China Holdings Limited (“MGM China” or the “Company”; SEHK Stock Code: 2282) today announced the select…
Doom Overtakes 3 Very Different Planets, Earth Included, in This Eerie Sci-Fi Short Story
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Death Echoes Overlapping” by Megan Chee. Enjoy!…
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Nuclear arms control era comes to end amid global rush for new weapons
“If it expires, it expires,” he told The New York Times in an interview. “We’ll do a better agreement” after the expiration, he insisted, adding that China, which has the world’s fastest-growing nuclear arsenal, and “other parties” should be part of an…
Why is gold price down by 3.9% and will it fall below $4,768 or rise again? Gold drop, analysts insights and market outlook explained. Here’s what investors should do now
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Why is gold price down by 3.9% and will it fall below $4,768 or rise again? Gold prices dropped as the US dollar rose and stock markets fell. Investors reduced metal positions amid volatility, margin pressure, and risk-off trading across globa…
Why did Xi hold back-to-back calls with Putin, Trump?
China’s leader Xi Jinping held back-to-back calls with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump this week, timing analysts said on Thursday was rare and significant as Beijing positions itself as a stable global power.…
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Taiwan detects 12 Chinese sorties, 7 Naval vessels near its waters
TAIPEI, Feb 5: Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) reported detecting 12 sorties of Chinese military aircraft and seven naval vessels operating near its territorial waters as of 6 am local time on Thursday.…
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