Takaichi set for landslide victory

TOKYO, Feb 08 (Reuters): Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ruling coalition is set for a landslide victory in Sunday's lower house election, exit polls showed, a move that may rattle financial markets and accelerate a defence build-up aimed at countering China.Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party and coalition partner, the Japan Innovation...

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Hamas leader rejects disarmament or 'foreign rule'

DOHA, Feb 08 (AFP): A senior Hamas leader said Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist movement would not surrender its weapons nor accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against US and Israeli demands."Criminalising the resistance, its weapons, and those who carried it out is something we should not accept," Khaled...

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Kim expected to issue major policy goals at party congress

SEOUL, Feb 08 (AP): North Korea will convene a major political conference later this month, the country's state media said Sunday, where leader Kim Jong Un is expected to outline his domestic and foreign policies for the next five years.The ruling Workers' Party congress, which Kim previously held in 2016...

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Iran defies US threats to insist on right to enrich uranium

PARIS, Feb 08 (AFP): Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday ruled out Tehran ever giving up uranium enrichment in its negotiations with Washington, insisting it will not be intimidated by the threat of war with the United States.The minister, Abbas Araghchi told a forum in Tehran attended by AFP,...

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