October 21, 2025

Reuters. Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was formally nominated as Japan’s first female prime minister on Tuesday (October 21) after winning votes in parliament’s both lower house and upper house.   An acolyte of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and an admirer of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi received 237 votes in the lower house election to…

After three years of reasoning, pleading and conceding, the EU has had enough.   On Monday, the bloc’s 27 member countries are expected to back a new bill that will permanently cut Russian gas supplies to Hungary and Slovakia — whether they like it or not, POLITICO reports.   Since Moscow launched its all-out war…