Updated: Sep 7th, 2025 Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday announced his decision to step down, bowing to mounting pressure within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to take responsibility for back-to-back electoral setbacks, thus bringing an end to his 11-month tenure, according to local media reports. “I have decided to resign from my position...
Updated: Sep 7th, 2025 Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn endorsed Anutin Charnvirakul as the country’s new Prime Minister on Sunday, Secretary-General of the House of Representatives Arpath Sukhanunth announced. In a ceremony held at the Bhumjaithai Party headquarters, Arpath read out the royal command appointing Anutin as premier, Chinese news agency reported. The royal endorsement paves...
White House Advisor Peter Navarro had a meltdown on Sunday after one of his posts targeting India on its Russian oil purchase was flagged by a community note on X. However, this time he was fact-checked by a community of X users, who said that the oil trade was ‘for energy security, not just profit’,...
South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun on Saturday confirmed that more than 300 out of 457 people who were taken into custody are South Korean nationals. Cho also said that he may visit the United States to discuss with Washington the arrests of hundreds of Koreans by US immigration authorities at a South Korean battery...
Updated: Sep 6th, 2025 US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defence as the Department of War. After signing the order on Friday, Trump said the Department of War is a “much more” appropriate name, especially in the current security environment. “We won the First World War, we...
Updated: Sep 6th, 2025 UK Deputy PM David Lammy British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday carried out a major cabinet reshuffle, naming David Lammy as Deputy Prime Minister after Angela Rayner resigned over a tax underpayment controversy. Angela Rayner, who was also serving as Housing Secretary, resigned after admitting to underpaying tax on a...
Updated: Sep 6th, 2025 Amid US President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on India and cryptic posts of ‘losing India’, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday said that India will have to apologise soon and make a deal with the US as it cannot survive without the American market. Speaking at a TV interview, Lutnick...
US President Donald Trump appeared to backtrack from his previous remark about “losing” India to China. At a White House press conference on Friday, Trump said, “I’ll always be friends” with Prime Minister Modi” and called him a “great Prime Minister.” Hours after this comment, Indian PM Modi reciprocated on Saturday by saying that he...
On the 700th day of the Israel-Hamas conflict, the al-Qassam Brigade, the military wing of the Hamas allegedly released video of the Israeli hostage Gilboa-Dalal, who was among the ones captured by Hamas from Nova Music Festival. The video, confirmed by media houses to be from the Gaza, shows Gilboa-Dalal in a car, driving in...
Updated: Sep 5th, 2025 US President Donald Trump on Thursday said Europe must stop purchasing Russian oil as it helps Moscow to fund its war against Ukraine. As per reports, the White House official told a news agency that Trump joined a call of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ countries, led by French President Emmanuel...