Takaichi Sanae’s Liberal Democratic Party turning the wobbly coalition she inherited back in October as Japan’s first woman prime minister into a landslide win in snap elections that gives the 64-year old admirer of late British maverick prime minister Margaret Thatcher enough leeway to reform the constitution and break with eight decades of pacifism. 

It’s snowing in the Alps. Not a scoop, it's February you say?

Moving day at the palace. Or should we say moving night. The former prince Andrew exiting Windsor Castle under the cover of dark for his brother’s private Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The latest document dump about late financier Jeffrey Epstein providing more lewd allegations around the former royal. 

One month after the US captured Nicolas Maduro, is Washington trying its Venezuela template on Iran? Not the part where special forces swoop for foreign leaders. Rather the part where the regime and its apparatus can stay so long as Washington gets what it wants. In the case of Iran, maximum pressure and Donald Trump’s initial promise to protesters that “help is on the way” seems to be morphing into art of the deal-style nuclear bargaining. 

The official line these days out of China is that it's a stable partner "in an uncertain world." So what to make of the bombshell news out of Beijing? Xi Jinping purging his top general Zhang Yiouxia with accusations against the 75-year old loyalist that range from corruption to leaking nuclear secrets to the US. We’ll ask about the reasons and the timing…

Making Ukrainians freeze in winter wasn’t enough.