Women have emerged as formidable forces in global politics, with numerous nations electing female prime ministers over the ...

Takaichi, the former economic security minister of Japan, beat Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, the son of popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ... Jewish prejudice across the U.S.

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister on Tuesday, following her party’s last-minute coalition deal to secure a majority.

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina named army General Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo as prime minister on Monday, a week after dissolving the government in response to ongoing ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned less than a month in office and less than 24 hours after naming a new government that prompted a key coalition ally to withdraw ...

Facing criticism from all sides, France’s new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, resigned less than 24 hours after naming his government and after less than a month in office, plunging the country ...

The Netherlands holds a general election on October 29, when more than 13 million voters will pick parties to form a ...

In the wake of a revolution, he helped found a leading political party and tried to conciliate warring left and right ...

(Bloomberg) -- Jim Bolger, the New Zealand dairy farmer who became prime minister for seven years in the 1990s, has died. He was 90. He died peacefully on Wednesday in Wellington, his family said in a ...