1. Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has come in third on the Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women of 2025. The US business magazine on Wednesday released its annual list of influential women in politics, business and other categories. It bases the ranking on marks such as the scale of countries or companies and media mentions.
2. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, the winner of this year’s Noble Peace Prize, greeted her supporters in Oslo shortly after she arrived in the Norwegian capital on Thursday. Machado missed Wednesday’s award ceremony. But before dawn on Thursday, she appeared on a hotel balcony in Oslo and spoke with her supporters.
3. Two Japanese winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes took part in the award ceremony in Sweden on Wednesday. Kitagawa Susumu, an executive vice-president of Kyoto University, is among the three winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry.