Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants the group to develop a coordinated response to Beijing’s effort to use export restrictions as a geopolitical weapon.
For months, a coalition led by Britain and France has been preparing to send minesweepers and other ships to secure the strait once the fighting ends. That moment may finally be here.
The Paris Opera production of “Ercole Amante” (“Hercules in Love”), a rediscovered 1707 work by the female composer Antonia Bembo, leans into contemporary themes of coercion and consent.
U.S. and Iranian officials said the deal included a 60-day cease-fire to pave the way for negotiations toward a final peace agreement and talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government planned to bar children under 16 from social media, following similar efforts in Australia and elsewhere.
The latest casualty in the war is a centuries-old cathedral. President Volodymyr Zelensky called it “one of the largest Russian crimes against Christian culture.”
Protests have erupted across France after authorities revealed that a man accused of kidnapping Lyhanna Rameau Bernard, a French schoolgirl found dead this month, had previously been flagged to law enforcement.
Cape Verde, a tiny island nation off the West African coast, is among the smallest countries to ever qualify for the World Cup. Fans marveled that it held the line against a tournament favorite.
Alexandros Giotopoulos, 82, had been serving 17 life sentences for leading November 17, a leftist group blamed for a wave of bombings and assassinations.
The case had remained unresolved since May 2017, when a woman was sent tumbling into a bus lane on Putney Bridge. She escaped uninjured after the bus driver swerved.
The men were convicted of conspiring to set fire to properties and a car linked to the prime minister after one of them was recruited on a Russian-language Telegram account.
In Germany, a campaign called Rights Against the Right is securing trademarks for right-wing symbols and phrases, aiming to cut into a revenue stream that sustains hate groups.
Father Dionysios Tabakis has never played a live concert, but after his first album became a word-of-mouth hit, he’ll be performing at a U.S. festival this summer.
A bishop reported that many holy items had been recovered from the church, at the site of the Perchersk monastery, a revered place for the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox faiths.