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Japanese television is reporting that Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is meeting with parliamentary officials and is expected to resign.

Following Gordon Brown's resignation, meeting with queen, Conservative Party chief takes over to form coalition government with Liberal Dems.

British prime minister Gordon Brown says he will take "full responsibility" if his Labour party loses the May 6 general election, as party leaders embark on frantic last-minute campaigning.

Japan's prime minister said Tuesday that it will be impossible to move all parts of a key U.S. Marine base out of Okinawa, breaking with past promises to relocate the facility outside the southern island.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown fought to hold on to his job Thursday in a debate against the two men who hope to replace him, David Cameron of the Conservative Party and Nick Clegg of the ...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown was recorded on Wednesday as he told an aide that a woman he had just sparred with on the campaign trail was "bigoted."

Hopes for a quick, peaceful resolution to Thailand's political crisis dimmed Sunday after the prime minister rejected a compromise ...

Anti-government protesters threatened Tuesday to unleash another street "offensive" aimed at deposing the prime minister and described an unexpected ruling that his party be disbanded as just a ploy to buy time in Thailand's political crisis....

Lawmakers scale walls and flee by helicopter after protesters storm Parliament. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in Bangkok on Wednesday, handing the army broad powers to restore order after weeks of disruptive street protests by anti-government demonstrators.

The election will likely be the most closely fought ballot in almost two decades, with opposition Conservatives taking aim at Prime Minister Gordon Brown.