Japan's Lower House has passed a draft budget bill for the next fiscal year beginning in April. At 122 trillion yen, or about 765 billion dollars, it's the biggest ever. The budget has now been sent ...

Sweden's Liberal Party, the smallest of the ruling coalition, said on Friday it would back bringing the ​anti-immigration Sweden Democrats into government after parliamentary elections ‌in September, ...

Japan's House of Representatives passed the government's fiscal 2026 budget bill on Friday after unusually short deliberations as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aims to get it through the Diet before ...

(Alliance News) - AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC on Friday said its completed combination with Fidelity Japan Trust PLC is expected to benefit all shareholders "in several ways" as it reported a ...

A working-level group formed by the cross-party national council on social security, tasked with looking into a possible ...

Team Mirai Pushing To Bring 'Digital Democracy' To Japan. The top story to emerge from Japan's Lower House election on Febuary 8 was the overwhelming victory of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her L ...

The U.S. dollar strengthened in February, supported by a stronger-than-expected jobs report and a slight decline in unemployment, which challenged the narrative of a slowing American labor market.

The fiscal 2026 budget proposal is to be passed in the House of Representatives Budget Committee with the support of the majority ruling coalition on Friday evening.

Lawmaker Muneo Suzuki noted that Japan could use its geographical advantage to replace oil and gas supplies from the Middle East ...

Last year’s elections saw a resurgence for Germany’s socialist party Die Linke. In an interview, coleader Ines Schwerdtner explains how the party is seeking to expand beyond current left-wing voters ...

The Budget Committee of Japan's House of Representatives decided Thursday to vote on the government's fiscal 2026 budget bill on Friday, amid objections from the opposition camp. The decision was made ...