VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s prime minister said Monday that her country has drawn up plans to shut its border crossings with Belarus indefinitely, after flights at the capital’s airport were disrupted repeatedly by suspected sightings of balloons used to smuggle cigarettes across the frontier. Lithuania’s National Security Commission met after balloon sightings prompted the…
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -Jim Bolger, New Zealand’s prime minister from 1990 to 1997 who helped usher in a new era of reconciliation with indigenous Maori, died on Wednesday aged 90, his family said in a statement. Bolger had suffered kidney failure last year and had been undergoing dialysis. He died surrounded by his…
By Gabriel Stargardter and Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) -Reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Saturday urged France’s political parties to work together to put an end to the “ridiculous spectacle” seen in recent days, as he faces a Monday deadline to present a budget. President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to reappoint Lecornu has enraged some of…
TOKYO (AP) — In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democrats, and likely next prime minister, is an ultra-conservative star of a male-dominated party that critics call an obstacle to women’s advancement. Sanae Takaichi, 64. admires former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and is a…