Liberal Democrat Councillor Suggests Gassing Green Agenda Opponents
A Liberal Democrat has come under fire for reportedly implying that a group of campaigners against the green agenda should be gassed.
A Liberal Democrat has come under fire for reportedly implying that a group of campaigners against the green agenda should be gassed.
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the infamous “Merchant of Death” exchanged for basketball player Brittney Griner in a controversial prisoner swap by the Biden administration two weeks ago, visited the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk on Saturday to attend a political event.
Various media outlets — including the Associated Press (AP) and the Chinese Communist Party-run Global Times — alleged this week that the recently slain former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo maintained ties with a South Korean religious cult active in Japan
China’s Foreign Ministry and its government propaganda outlets expressed concern on Tuesday that the decisive conservative victory in Japan’s legislative elections this weekend, which took place immediately after the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo on Friday, could encourage Japan to become a “geopolitical thug.”
Japanese voters turned out in large numbers Sunday to help the nation’s conservative, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a junior coalition party win enough seats to forge a two-thirds majority in the Upper House chamber of Japan’s national legislature, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Monday.
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a majority of seats in Japan’s parliament with surprising ease on Sunday in a general election that proved a mandate for the LDP’s leader, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, and his party-influenced promises to double Japan’s defense spending with an eye toward China.
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun published a poll Monday that showed support for Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide and his cabinet dipping to an all-time low of 28 percent as the Tokyo Olympics concluded.
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the ruling conservative party, announced on Thursday that it would consider allowing women to attend top-level party meetings, but not allow them to talk.
Japan’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will reportedly meet to choose a new leader – and most likely the new prime minister of the country – between September 13 to 15, Japanese media outlets reported on Monday.
Contents: North Korea renews threat of massive hydrogen bomb test over Pacific; US sends three aircraft carrier strike groups to waters around North Korea
Contents: Japan’s Shinzo Abe wins a ‘super-majority’ in Japan’s lower house; Abe promises to change the constitution to end Japan’s pacifism
Japan’s gaffe-prone deputy prime minister Taro Aso on Wednesday retracted comments in which he cited Adolf Hitler, but insisted he did not mean to praise the Nazi leader.
Contents: Increasingly angry China rams Vietnamese boat as tribunal ruling expected; Japan’s election opens the way to repeal ‘pacifism’ constitution clause; US will send 560 more troops to Iraq
Contents: Japan’s elections put constitution’s pacifism clause into question; Nato deploying a ‘tripwire’ of 4,000 soldiers along Russia’s border