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by Shingo ITO / Sara HUSSEIN TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s new prime minister Fumio Kishida unveiled his government on Monday, mixing holdovers with newcomers, after lawmakers voted him the new leader of the world’s third-largest economy. The soft-spoken scion of a Hiroshima political family, 64-year-old Kishida beat popular vaccine chief Taro Kono to win the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) last week. He easily won Monday’s vote in parliament approving him […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s health has suffered from her frequent appearances before a court run by the military junta that deposed her government, her lawyer said Monday. Suu Kyi went on trial in June, four months after she was taken into custody in a coup that plunged the country into turmoil. The 76-year-old faces a raft of charges, from sedition to illegally importing walkie-talkies, which could see her […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) – Austria’s government unveiled on Sunday what it calls an “eco-social” reform of the tax system, a key promise of the conservative-green coalition. Under the measures set out at a news conference by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and several of his cabinet colleagues, Austria will follow the example of neighbouring Germany and introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. This is to come in from mid-2022 at a level of 30 euros ($35) […]
More than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya and the Czech Republic, have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a far-reaching new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium. The so-called “Pandora Papers” investigation — involving some 600 journalists from media including The Washington Post, the BBC and The Guardian — is based on the leak of some 11.9 million documents […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump has filed suit asking a court to reinstate his account on Twitter and restore the online voice he lost for allegedly instigating the Capitol Hill riot. Twitter and other social media banned the former president from their platforms after a mob of pro-Trump supporters assaulted the US Congress building on January 6. They were riled up by a speech hours earlier in which Trump hammered away at […]
Presidential daughter thanks supporters and calls for honest, orderly elections (Eagle News) — Davao City mayor Sara Duterte filed her certificate of candidacy to run as mayor, seeking a third term in the city. The presidential daughter filed her CoC shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, after her father President Rodrigo Duterte decided to retire from politics and not run anymore as vice-presidential bet in next year’s elections. The 76-year old Philippine […]
Duterte announces decision as Senator Go files his candidacy for VP with Comelec (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte announced on Saturday, Oct. 2, that he will not run for vice president in 2022 anymore and will retire from politics, saying he was heeding the sentiment of Filipinos. In a brief speech as Senator Bong Go filed his certificate of candidacy with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday, Duterte said he was “was […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The leader of Australia’s most populous state resigned Friday amid a corruption investigation, leaving Sydneysiders — deep in months of lockdown — without a political leader. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she would leave parliament after an anti-corruption body announced an inquiry into allegations against her. “My resignation as premier could not occur at a worse time, but the timing is completely outside of my control,” Berejiklian told media […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — UK petrol stations are still running out of fuel, a retailers’ group warned on Thursday, contradicting government claims that a spate of panic-buying is ebbing. Queues continued to build at refuelling stations, especially in London and southern England, including at one site in Hampshire where a transport truck carrying a military helicopter was sighted. Troops are expected to be deployeed within days to help ease the crisis, with Prime Minister […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister has been appointed to the country’s top government body, the official KCNA news agency reported Thursday. Kim Yo Jong, a key adviser to her brother, was promoted to a position on the State Affairs Commission, amid a raft of changes approved by the Supreme People’s Assembly, the rubber-stamp parliament. No fewer than nine members of the commission were dismissed, including one of […]
by Allison Jackson and Mikhail Flores Agence France Presse MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine boxing legend and 2022 presidential hopeful Manny Pacquiao said on Wednesday that he is hanging up his gloves after a glittering decades-long career in the ring. The eight-division world champion and senator, who has his sights set on a high-stakes rumble to replace President Rodrigo Duterte, said quitting the sport that had lifted him out of poverty was the […]
by Katie Forster TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s next leader Fumio Kishida is a soft-spoken former foreign minister from a Hiroshima family of politicians, with a reputation of seeking the middle ground and a fondness for baseball. The 64-year-old won the ruling party’s leadership vote on Wednesday, beating popular vaccine chief Taro Kono to finally clinch a job he has long targeted. It was second time lucky for the experienced politician: he lost out in […]
