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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament is set to elect ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, one day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner that would pull her governing bloc further to the right. Takaichi will replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since the Liberal Democratic Party’s disastrous election loss in July.Ishiba, who lasted only one year in office, resigned with his Cabinet earlier Tuesday, paving the way for his successor.The LDP’s off-the-cuff alliance with the Osaka-based rightwing Japan Innovation Party, or Ishin no…

Oct 20, 2025, 04:38 PM ETMjällby, a tiny team from a remote fishing village next to the Baltic Sea, won the Swedish league title on Monday for one of the most remarkable achievements in European soccer.A 2-0 win at IFK Gothenburg on Monday ensured Mjällby held an unassailable 11-point lead with three rounds left in Sweden’s top league, Allsvenskan.The improbable title triumph has been compared to Leicester winning the English Premier League in fairy tale fashion in 2016.Editor’s PicksIt’s a first major trophy for Mjällby, a club from Sweden’s south coast whose team is made up of mostly locally born…

Former FBI Director James Comey on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss his criminal case, arguing that he is being vindictively prosecuted because of President Donald Trump’s animus toward him.Comey, in a pair of motions for dismissal filed in federal court in eastern Virginia, also argued that the indictment against him is fatally flawed because his prosecutor, interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, was appointed unlawfully.Comey wants U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff to dismiss the case “with prejudice,” meaning it cannot be refiled.”Any lesser remedy would be insufficient in light of the government’s flagrant misconduct and the need to deter the…

The Gaza Tribunal, a people’s tribunal, was formed a year ago in response to the failure of the established world order of sovereign states and international institutions to stop what experts and ordinary people increasingly recognised as genocide in Gaza. The Gaza Tribunal will hold its final session from 23-26 October 2025 at Istanbul University. Our initiative was inspired by an earlier civil society effort during the Vietnam War, when leading public intellectuals Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre established the Russell Tribunal, which held hearings in 1966 and 1967. Its mission was to report on the international crimes of the United States…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to leave for Asia at the end of the week, betting that an around-the-world journey will help him untangle big issues that he can’t afford to get wrong.At stake is nothing less than the future of the global economy, which could hinge on whether he’s able to calm trade tensions during an expected meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. A misstep could send shock waves through American industries that have already been rattled by Trump’s aggressive tariffs, government layoffs and political brinkmanship.Trump’s strategy of improvisation has had both hits and misses since…

Reid Hoffman, Partner at Greylock and co-founder LinkedIn, speaks during the WSJ Tech Live conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal at the Montage Laguna Beach in Laguna Beach, California, on October 21, 2024.Frederic J. Brown | Afp | Getty ImagesTwo of the main members of the PayPal mafia are sparring again — this time over artificial intelligence.Billionaire tech investor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman on Monday called Anthropic “one of the good guys” after the AI startup was criticized last week by David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar.”Anthropic, along with some others (incl…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden on Monday completed a round of radiation therapy treatment for the aggressive form of prostate cancer he was diagnosed with after leaving office, a spokesperson said. Biden had been receiving treatment at Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia, said aide Kelly Scully. The 82-year-old Democrat left office in January, six months after he dropped his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate against Republican Donald Trump amid concerns about Biden’s age, health and mental fitness. Trump defeated Democrat Kamala Harris, who was Biden’s vice president. In May, Biden’s postpresidential office announced that he…

A federal appeals court on Monday said that President Donald Trump could deploy National Guard troops to the streets of Portland, Oregon.The 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals stayed a temporary restraining order issued by a federal district court judge on Oct. 4 enjoining Trump’s order to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to protect an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland.”After considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority under” a law “which authorizes the…

Oct 20, 2025, 03:40 PM ETManchester City midfielder Nico González said he does not see himself as a like-for-like replacement for Rodri.Gonzalez is set to continue deputising his fellow Spaniard as the Ballon d’Or winner sits out Tuesday’s Champions League clash at Villarreal.Rodri suffered a hamstring injury prior to the recent international break, prolonging his frustration further after missing most of last season following knee surgery.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedGonzalez was signed from Porto in January to provide back-up in the central defensive midfield position and, although he eagerly accepts advice from Rodri “every game.” he does not want to compare himself…

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The mass evacuation by military aircraft of hundreds of residents from Alaska villages ravaged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong is complete, and officials and local leaders are turning attention to trying to stabilize damaged infrastructure and housing where they can before the winter freeze sets in. The focus of major response efforts following back-to-back storms that battered western Alaska has been the Yup’ik communities of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, which are near the Bering Sea and have histories of flooding. While more than a dozen communities reported damage from the remnants of Halong earlier this month,…