Japan's pro-nuclear government is to change some top officials at its nuclear regulator, officials said Wednesday, in what critics charge is an attempt to remove opponents to the restarting of the country's reactors.
The Japanese government expressed concern over the launch by North Korea of two ballistic missiles that fell into the Sea of Japan, but was not planning to suspend bilateral intergovernmental talks because of that, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Wednesday.
A renegade general who has launched an assault against Islamists in Benghazi warned Libya had become a "terrorist hub", calling for a civilian presidential high council to form an emergency cabinet and organise legislative elections.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan looks determined to impose, in violation of the spirit of parliamentary democracy, his will over the government as Jan. 19, the date of the first Cabinet meeting he will preside over, draws near.
On Thursday evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with his cabinet of ministers took oath at the bedeckedRashtrapati Bhavan. Apart from PM Modi, the swearing-in ceremony of another minister garnered the maximum applause. This minister was Pratap Chandra Sarangi, who became an MP for the first time. Wondering what sets Sarangi apart from others? Here's all about him.