TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new ...

France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy is to be jailed Tuesday after being found guilty of acquiring Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential run. France's right-wing leader from 2007 to 2012, was ...

TOKYO: Japanese parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday. Takaichi, 64, head of the struggling Liberal Democratic Party, replaces ...

Tokyo, Oct. 21 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Diet, or parliament, on Tuesday nominated Sanae Takaichi, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, as new prime minister to succeed Shigeru Ishiba.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister on Tuesday, shattering the nation’s glass ceiling and setting it up for a forceful turn to the ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Staunch conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister by the country’s parliament on Tuesday, in a landmark moment for the historically patriarchal country ...

Sanae Takaichi, leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, won the lower house vote to choose the next prime minister on Tuesday, clearing the way for her inauguration as the country’s first ...

Sanae Takaichi won the lower house of parliament vote to become Japan’s prime minister on Tuesday, effectively making her the first woman to clinch the nation’s top leadership job.

Sanae Takaichi has made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister, following a decisive vote to lead the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The 64-year-old conservative, ...

Sanae Takaichi, a hardline conservative, becomes Japan's first female prime minister following a decisive vote in the parliament's lower house. Supported by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, her ...

Japan elects Sanae Takaichi as first female prime minister amid coalition, facing fragile government and economic challenges ...