The era in which the LDP was Japan’s dominant party in power was widely thought to be a thing of the past – until Takaichi. 

French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Cyprus on Monday, days after dispatching a warship to the east Mediterranean island nation, where a Shahed drone struck a British air base on its southern coast last week during the Iran war.

Lebanese officials say nearly 400 people have been killed and more than half a million displaced amid fresh Israeli strikes on Beirut and in the south of the country. In the meantime, Hezbollah says it is fighting Israeli forces that have landed in ea…

Speculation has been growing surrounding the fate of a high-ranking Iranian commander, Esmail Qaani as some unconfirmed reports allege the general has been executed by Iran for spying for Israel. The report circulating in Arab media that he was arrest…

There are new air attacks on Iran as Israel targets the country’s energy infrastructure, saying “it’s the lifeline of the regime.” It comes as Iran names a new supreme leader and a seventh American has died in the attacks. Matt Gutman has the latest.