Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has bowed to weeks of pressure from within his party and announced his resignation, less than a year after taking office.

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2025. Credit - Toru Hanai—POOL/AFP/. L ...

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba stepped down less than two months after his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost its majority in the upper house elections. At such a critical moment in US ...

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she sees the ultra conservative party leading the government within 15 years, as she ruled out that her daughter Lee or chief of staff, James Ashby, will be ...

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Mr Ishiba, who took office in October, has resisted demands from opponents within his own party for more than a month.

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Mr Miliband’s survival is a gift to the Tories and to Reform UK. Claire Coutinho, the shadow net zero secretary, told the ...

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