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Rishi Sunak has pledged to slash taxes by 20% by the end of the decade in a last-gasp pitch to Conservative members with the first ballots set to drop in the leadership race.But in one of his strongest attacks yet on the frontrunner, Liz Truss, Sunak warned party members against an “act of self-sabotage” that could cos... | United Kingdom Politics |
Joe Biden will make his first trip to the Middle East next month with visits to Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia, the White House announced on Tuesday.The decision to pay a call to Saudi leaders during the four-day trip beginning 13 July comes after Biden as a Democratic presidential candidate labeled th... | Middle East Politics |
South African business groups are pushing the government to make strong diplomatic efforts to ensure the country is not stripped of its duty-free access to the U.S. market.
A group of U.S. senators recently questioned South Africa's status under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, citing Pretoria's ties with Moscow... | Africa politics |
A group of 309 cyber security experts, researchers and scientists hailing from 31 countries around the world has called on the European Union (EU) to rethink proposals to reform the electronic identification, authentication and trust services (eIDAS) Regulations, saying that “as proposed in its current form, this legis... | Europe Politics |
The business minister Kevin Hollinrake had exciting news for British businesses on Tuesday. The government was, he said, “tackling red tape, cutting burdens for business and creating certainty for firms”.
It sounded like just the kind of benefit Brexit was meant to bring in its wake.
Yet the particular tangle of “red t... | United Kingdom Politics |
- Ukrainians have quickly learned how to counter Russian information attacks since Russia’s invasion in the country, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on her official Telegram channel Saturday.
- Since last July, the U.K. has trained 18,000 Ukrainian volunteer infantrymen under the Operation Interflex training... | Europe Politics |
© Provided by The Financial Express President Cyril Ramaphosa during a recent trip to Saudi Arabia. (Photo: Royal Court of Saudi Arabia) Amidst the growing tension between the US and Saudi Arabia over the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, the Gulf nation has conveyed its interest to join the BRICS Bloc. Last week, President ... | Global Organizations |
Why do leaders and parties reinvent themselves? Here’s one obvious answer to that question: because they have to.
Rishi Sunak’s updated political approach, expounded this week before his party faithful, might simply be explained in terms of the Conservatives’ enduring electoral travails. With his party languishing behi... | United Kingdom Politics |
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, former U.S. presidents, members of Congress and officials expressed shock and offered their condolences Friday after the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. In a statement Friday morning, Biden said he was "stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened" by Abe's death,... | Asia Politics |
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe lies on the ground after apparent shooting during an election campaign for the July 10, 2022 Upper House election, in Nara, western Japan July 8, 2022. in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo via REUTERS Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comNARA, Ja... | Asia Politics |
Russian cruise missiles rained down on Kyiv this morning, hitting an apartment block while families slept.The city’s mayor warned that the Ukrainian capital was under attack as an act of intimidation before critical G7 and Nato summits.Large explosions rang out across the city hours after President Zelensky made a rene... | Europe Politics |
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Various G7 leaders joined U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of a meeting on Sunday.Johnson made the quip while gathered around a table with U.S. President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Commission ... | Global Organizations |
Joe Biden will visit Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia next month, the White House announced on Tuesday.The announcement immediately put the administration on the defensive, given the president’s previous stance that the Saudi regime was a “pariah” because of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and other human ... | Middle East Politics |
There’s a growing understanding in Britain that the country’s vote to quit the European Union, a decisive moment in the international rise of reactionary populism, was a grave error.
Just as critics predicted, Brexit has led to inflation, labor shortages, business closures and travel snafus. It has created supply chain... | United Kingdom Politics |
A historic proposal by the Austrian Ministry of Justice sees €33m set aside to compensate those who were wrongly convicted - but critics say the amount on offer is not enough.
The Austrian government is set to pay tens of millions of euros in compensation to gay people who were persecuted or convicted of consensual hom... | Europe Politics |
I identify as pansexual. I grew up very straight, but around the age of 40, my attraction to people changed: I stopped being attracted to someone through their gender and became attracted to people through who they are and their energy. I never had an official coming-out announcement, but it’s different for everyone. I... | Human Rights |
Let’s start with three interconnected multipolar-driven facts.
First: One of the key take aways from the World Economic Forum annual shindig in Davos, Switzerland is when Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan, on a panel on “Saudi Arabia’s Transformation,” made it clear that Riyadh “will consider trading in currenc... | Global Organizations |
Boris Johnson has become the number one most donated to MP this parliament after receiving a single donation of one million pounds. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had previously been the most donated to MP with £740,00 in multiple donations, Sky News' Westminster Accounts tool showed.
But the money from crypto investor... | United Kingdom Politics |
The participants discussed the efforts the governments of India and Russia are taking to overcome transport and logistics problems, prospects of setting up a joint banking and financial structure to support the bilateral trade potential, and high-priority areas of cooperation between India and Russia.
"Last year was th... | India Politics |
Labour faces two huge strategic challenges: first how to win power, and second how to use it to change our country for the better. The polls – for now at least – suggest it will clear the first hurdle, but what of the second?
The country is in a mess. We desperately need a bold and reforming Labour-led government to re... | United Kingdom Politics |
Lula's visit is a big boost for trade and diplomatic relations with China
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Brazilian Preside... | Latin America Politics |
Demonstrators hold signs during a protest march, ahead of the G7 leaders summit, which will take place in the Bavarian alpine resort of Elmau Castle, in Munich, Germany, June 25, 2022. REUTERS/Wolfgang RattayRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comBERLIN, June 25 (Reuters) - Some 4,000 people marched in Mu... | Global Organizations |
Russia turned down a request by South Africa not to send President Vladimir Putin to next month’s BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa’s deputy president told local media Friday.
Earlier, Russian officials told The Moscow Times that Putin’s attendance remained uncertain in the face of an International Criminal Co... | Global Organizations |
Nigel Farage has accused the Conservatives of copying the rhetoric of Reform UK, "but not the actions".
Mr Farage - who founded Reform from the ashes of the Brexit Party - was the star turn at its annual conference.
He said the Tories had become a "social democrat party in all but name" with "big-state, high-tax" polic... | United Kingdom Politics |
With news this morning that the UK’s GDP had contracted by 0.5 per cent in July you might have expected Keir Starmer, who as Labour leader has insisted the UK needs “growth, growth, growth”, to focus his PMQs questions on Britain’s perennial economic foibles.
But the Labour leader opted to place his flagship “mission” ... | United Kingdom Politics |
The ousting of Boris Johnson has unleashed the 'hounds of hell' and has sparked a bitter leadership race that will see Tories 'shredding each other to pieces', Nadine Dorries has warned as hopefuls gear up to replace him.The culture secretary - one of the Prime Minister's most stringent supporters - warned colleagues t... | United Kingdom Politics |
Key events22m agoGood morning!22m agoJohn Farnham undergoing surgery for cancerShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePaul KarpThere needs to be consequences for Morrison, whatever the legal outcome, Marles saysEarlier, the deputy PM Richard Marles told ABC News Breakfast:Whatever the legal ou... | Australia Politics |
India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar attends a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on July 8, 2022. Stefani Reynolds/Pool via REUTERSRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comBEIJING/NEW DE... | Asia Politics |
Saudi Arabia just said they are now 'open' to the idea of trading in currencies besides the US dollar — does this spell doom for the greenback? 3 reasons not to worryThe 2023 World Economic Forum has been going on for just a few days and we’re already getting a glimpse of the future the global elites envision for us al... | Middle East Politics |
Britain’s prison system is collapsing and Britain’s penal policy with it. This is good news. Both are lost in the back alleys of social policy. This is not the result of soaring crime but of mindless populism, which equates more prisons with more votes.
Britain’s prison population is now approaching capacity at 88,016.... | United Kingdom Politics |
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a joint news conference with Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in Tehran, Iran June 23, 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comJune 28 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister ... | Global Organizations |
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was rushed to a hospital after being shot while giving a speech on a street in Nara in western Japan Friday.Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave an emotional press conference where he said Abe, 67, is in "severe condition" and he... | Asia Politics |
Human remains have been exhumed at the location where authorities were searching for British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, Brazil's Justice Minister Anderson Torres said on Wednesday.'I have just been informed by the federal police that ''human remains were found at the site where excavat... | Latin America Politics |
Boris Johnson has spoken to Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee, to inform him of his decision to resign as leader though he will remain Prime Minister until a successor is appointedVideo LoadingVideo UnavailableWatch Live: Boris Johnson resign as Conservative leaderBoris Johnson has resigned ... | United Kingdom Politics |
A deal has been reached between Russia and Ukraine to resume grain exports from Black Sea ports, the UN secretary general has said.Antonio Guterres called on Russia and Ukraine to fully implement the accord which opens the way to "significant volumes of commercial food exports" from three key Ukrainian ports - Odesa, C... | Europe Politics |
Susan Hall today vowed to 'expose Sadiq Khan for who he really is' after she was chosen as the Tory candidate for London mayor to take on the Labour incumbent.
The London Assembly member and local councillor will attempt to prevent Mr Khan winning a third term as the capital's mayor in next May's election.
She beat r... | United Kingdom Politics |
Any change of government will always result in a number of people suddenly finding themselves without a job. MPs leave the Commons at short notice, and so do their advisers and staff. Wonks may manage to swerve the unemployment queue altogether, but their roles can still change beyond recognition.
For the past 13 years... | United Kingdom Politics |
Down the stone steps in a tucked-away corner of Westminster Hall, the Conservative backbencher Miriam Cates can occasionally be found on a weekday lunchtime playing piano at a chapel service for Christian MPs.
But this week, she has been preaching to the converted, delivering a keynote address at the National Conservat... | United Kingdom Politics |
Voting has closed for two crucial byelections, in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton, the results of which could play a pivotal role in Boris Johnson’s political future.Defeat in both of what were previously Tory-held seats could reignite a challenge to the prime minister from disgruntled Conservative MPs, particula... | United Kingdom Politics |
The Times says ministers are facing demands to speed up inspections to uncover the full extent of dangerous concrete in school classrooms.
The Guardian says the row about the presence of the concrete known as RAAC, as well as a lack of clarity about the funding of repairs, is "threatening to engulf parliament" as MPs r... | United Kingdom Politics |
Exclusive:Scotland can be the ‘beating heart of a new Britain’, says Keir Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to "fundamentally change" the relationship between Scotland, England and the Union and help make Scotland the “beating heart of a new Britain”, as he sets out his wider pitch to voters north of the border for ... | United Kingdom Politics |
SummaryUkraine hoists flag on recaptured Black Sea islandUK PM and staunch Ukraine supporter Johnson resignsKramatorsk residents in Donetsk ready for Russian attackKYIV/KRAMATORSK, Ukraine, July 7 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the West of decades of aggression towards Moscow and warne... | Europe Politics |
Evacuation from Azot plant in Sievierodonetsk now ‘impossible’, says governorHundreds of civilians sheltering at the Azot chemical plant in the embattled eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk are no longer able to evacuate because of the sustained Russian artillery barrages, according to Luhansk governor, Serhiy Ha... | Europe Politics |
The Labour party leadership is being criticised for the way MP selections are being run under Keir Starmer (Alamy) 9 min read31 December 2022 Record polling leads for Labour suggest they could soon be set to win their first general election since 2005, but ongoing internal rows over who will stand to be the party's MPs... | United Kingdom Politics |
24 min agoRussian forces withdraw from Snake IslandFrom CNN's Olga Voitovych in Kyiv and Anna Chernova in DubaiRussian forces have left Snake Island in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said Thursday, after they carried out what they said was a “successful” operation.On Monday, the Ukrainian military said it hi... | Europe Politics |
World leaders have condemned a “barbaric” attack on a shopping centre in Ukraine that killed at least 18 people as a war crime, saying that it has strengthened their resolve to resist Russian aggression.Boris Johnson said the “callous, cowardly and ultimately counterproductive” attack would strengthen support for Ukrai... | Europe Politics |
(Bloomberg) -- All around the world, a backlash is brewing against the hegemony of the US dollar.
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Brazil and China recently struck a deal to settle trade in their local currencies, seeking to bypass the greenback in the process. India and Malaysia in April signed an accord to ramp up usage of t... | Global Organizations |
Prime Minister’s Questions is usually a shouty, jeery affair — a merciless bear pit where any sign of weakness is greeted with a wall of noise from MPs sat directly opposite.
Before the House rose for recess, politicos foretold of even fierier clashes as Rishi Sunak transitioned into a more attack-ready, aggressive pol... | United Kingdom Politics |
Everything we know about Keir Starmer tells us he is deeply, almost instinctively, opposed to taking political risks.
The Labour leader, the narrative runs, offers few commitments, projects but a small target and relies for his political victories on the prime minister of the day getting bogged down in some self-inflic... | United Kingdom Politics |
The once lingering member for Mid Bedfordshire may have left parliament, but her presence is still very much felt in SW1.
Nadine Dorries’ latest book, entitled The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, was initially set to be published on 28th September, just three days before the beginning of Conservativ... | United Kingdom Politics |
As a teenager in the British Somali diaspora, there were several things I heard repeated in connection with my own culture. In no particular order, there was: drought, Black Hawk Down, high foreheads, piracy, famine, the peculiarity of banana and rice, terrorism, and the “look at me, I am the Captain now” meme. Unsurpr... | United Kingdom Politics |
US, partners scurry to contain fighting in Sudan
The U.S. and international partners are scrambling to contain an outbreak of fierce fighting in Sudan, where a conflict between heavily armed military factions risks exploding into a civil war that threatens devastating consequences.
Intense diplomacy by the U.S., the U.... | Africa politics |
China calls for ceasefire, UN peace conference to end Israel-Gaza conflict
- Beijing has released its first position paper on the war, which includes a broad-based forum aimed at achieving the two-state solution
- The paper’s release comes at the end of China’s presidency of the UN Security Council, during a humanitari... | Middle East Politics |
The U.S. and Philippines Friday concluded nearly three weeks of annual military drills known as Balikatan in the south Pacific Ocean near the island chain nation.
In a news release, the U.S. military said nearly 18,000 soldiers from both nations took part in the drills, making them the largest in the 38-year history of... | Asia Politics |
ABUJA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Nigeria's economy grew by 2.54% in the third quarter, largely steady from the 2.51% in the second quarter, data showed on Friday, as the oil sector contracted at a slower pace while the impact of government reforms aimed at boosting output were yet to take effect.
Central bank Governor Olayemi... | Africa politics |
KYIV, May 23 (Reuters) - Russian forces pressed on with a "counter-terrorism operation" in a border district on Tuesday, a regional governor said, a day after what appeared to be one of the biggest cross-border incursions from Ukraine since the war began 15 months ago.
Russia said on Monday it was battling an incursion... | Europe Politics |
Italy's long-standing troubles with wild boars are far from over, despite previous efforts to curb their presence in the country's cities
A pack of wild boars was spotted making the rounds of several homes inthe southern region of Calabria, Italy's news agency ANSA reported.
That makes Catanzaro the latest city to face... | Europe Politics |
By Liam Mannix
Australia will strive to build the first error-corrected quantum computer within the decade – a huge and expensive goal that, if achieved, would put the country at the forefront of the new technology.
The federal government is backing the ambition in its National Quantum Strategy, to be announced in Canb... | Australia Politics |
When I first visited the Domesticanx exhibition at El Museo del Barrio in Harlem, I experienced something I don’t always feel at a museum. I was comfortable and at ease—how I feel when I’m at my tia’s house, or in the company of other close family members. That sort of kinship is part of the exhibition’s intention: Dom... | Latin America Politics |
Ukraine has started the forced evacuation of around 1,000 children from areas near to the front line as Russia intensifies attacks.
Parents have been told they must move their families to safety from 31 settlements in Kherson and Donetsk regions.
Anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
U... | Europe Politics |
|Unification Minister Kwon Young-se speaks during a press conference at the government complex in Seoul, Tuesday. Newsis|
In rare move, unification minister criticizes North Korea's irresponsible attitude
By Jung Min-ho
Seoul on Tuesday condemned Pyongyang for refusing to answer regular inter-Korean liaison hotline cal... | Asia Politics |
The far-right Alternative für Deutschland has won a district council election in Germany for the first time, in what is being referred to as a watershed moment in the country’s politics.
The eastern town of Sonneberg, in the state of Thuringia, elected Robert Sesselmann to the post of district administrator, the equiva... | Europe Politics |
The Taliban have called on Western countries to stop evacuating and resettling educated and skilled Afghans abroad, saying the practice hurts Afghanistan.
Boasting about improved security in the war-ravaged country, Taliban leaders say all Afghans, including those who had worked for the previous Afghan government, are ... | Asia Politics |
The first group of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh have arrived in Armenia, days after the enclave was seized by Azerbaijan.
They entered shortly after local officials announced plans to move those made homeless by the fighting.
Azerbaijan captured the area inhabited by some 120,000 ethnic Armenians early this w... | Europe Politics |
Un escrutinio de infarto, como no se recordaba en España en los últimos 30 años, deja a la izquierda al borde de reeditar la coalición y a Pedro Sánchez con opciones todavía de seguir cuatro años más en La Moncloa. Precisa los votos de la izquierda y de los partidos nacionalistas e independentistas, con un escollo a pr... | Europe Politics |
Liz Truss’s tax-cutting agenda “clearly wasn’t the right approach” before the government had tackled inflation, the business secretary, Grant Shapps, has said in a retort to an essay by the former prime minister.
Truss, in her first major intervention since leaving office, wrote that she had “not [been] given a realist... | United Kingdom Politics |
An attempted North Korean space launch on Wednesday morning ended in fialure after it briefly triggered evacuation warnings in parts of South Korea and Japan.
Both the Chollima-1 rokcet and its payload — claimed by Pyongyang to be a military recosatellite— crashed into the ocean, North Korea's state-run KCNA news agenc... | Asia Politics |
The government on Wednesday listed a special discussion on Parliament's journey of 75 years starting from the Samvidhan Sabha on the first day of the five-day session of Parliament beginning Sept. 18.
The government on Wednesday listed a special discussion on Parliament's journey of 75 years starting from the Samvidhan... | India Politics |
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday over the situation in Manipur and said "I.N.D.I.A will not stay silent while the idea of India is being attacked" in the northeastern state.
Gandhi's remarks came after a video shot on May 4 surfaced on Wednesday, showing two women being ... | India Politics |
WARSAW, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Seven people have been charged over alleged irregularities in the granting of Polish work visas, a prosecutor said on Wednesday, amid a deepening scandal on the hot-button subject of migration ahead of Oct. 15 elections.
Opposition claims that the government was complicit in a system in whic... | Europe Politics |
The Labour party is planning to put the UK at the head of a worldwide green industrial revolution, with a massive US-style, public-private investment scheme targeted at the most deprived regions.
In an interview with the Observer, Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, who will travel to Washington in May to meet senior... | United Kingdom Politics |
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! I not only heard about the atrocities and oppression the Taliban subjected the Afghan people to; I also witnessed them firsthand. Sometimes I couldn’t clear them from my mind. During my eighth and last deployment, I conducted a feasibility study for an operation targeting a h... | Middle East Politics |
Demonstrators calling for Gaza ceasefire block bridge in Boston
Demonstrators seeking a cease-fire in Gaza blocked traffic for more than two hours on the Boston University bridge during rush hour
BOSTON -- Demonstrators seeking a cease-fire in Gaza blocked traffic on the Boston University bridge during rush hour Thursd... | Middle East Politics |
Armed police officers wave cars off the motorway going from Poland to Germany.
They're searching for people-smugglers and their desperate cargo.
This is the German government's latest bid to show it is getting a grip on rising levels of irregular migration.
But, as we found in a rural border district, there's little se... | Europe Politics |
Maldives new president makes an official request to India to withdraw military personnel
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has officially requested India to withdraw its military personnel from the archipelago, a day after being sworn in
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu officially requested India... | Asia Politics |
Sept 11 (Reuters) - Brazil's president said on Monday there was a need to review the country's accession to the International Criminal Court when nations like the U.S., China and India had not done so.
It would be up to Brazil's judiciary to decide whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would be arrested if he attend... | Latin America Politics |
Iran’s supreme leader told the head of Hamas in a face-to-face meeting in Tehran that his country would not enter the war with Israel and accused the terror group of not giving any prior warning of the Oct 7 attacks.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Ismail Haniyeh that Iran – a longtime backer of Hamas – would continue to l... | Middle East Politics |
The leader of Turkey’s ultranationalist Victory party has endorsed the opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, breaking ranks with the party’s former presidential hopeful Sinan Oğan, who endorsed Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The Victory party leader, Ümit Özdağ, declared at a joint press conference with Kılıçdaroğlu that the... | Middle East Politics |
Swedish police have arrested two people and detained around 10 others after a violent riot broke out at a protest involving a burning of the Quran. Organised by Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, its the latest incident among protests which have sparked outrage across the Middle East.
Swedish police arrested more than ten pe... | Europe Politics |
Socialist acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez offers an amnesty for those involved in Catalonia's 2017 independence bid as he tries to forge an alliance that will allow him to form a government.
In Madrid, protesters clashed with riot police over a potential amnesty for those involved in Catalonia's failed 2017 indepen... | Europe Politics |
Hundreds of Afghan refugees who settled in London after fleeing the Taliban 18 months ago have been told they have a week to uproot and move 200 miles away, the Guardian can reveal.
The Home Office has told 40 families with 150 children who have lived for more than a year in Kensington, west London, that they must leav... | United Kingdom Politics |
By Sarantis Michalopoulos | EURACTIV.com Est. 7min 07-07-2023 (updated: 07-07-2023 ) Content-Type: News News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. “We expect Serbia to create an enabling environment in which media freedom and freedom ... | Europe Politics |
Aug 6 (Reuters) - Ukraine struck and damaged the Chonhar road bridge linking mainland Ukraine to Crimea and a smaller bridge linking the town of Henichesk with the peninsula's northeast coast on Sunday, Moscow-appointed officials and Ukraine's armed forces said.
"The enemy launched a missile strike in the area of the C... | Europe Politics |
New Delhi — Indian authorities suspended internet service and deployed thousands of paramilitary and police forces Monday to the northern state of Haryana as deadly sectarian violence spread toward India's sprawling capital city. At least one person was killed and 20 others injured in the clashes that erupted Monday af... | India Politics |
WARSAW, Poland -- Three opposition parties that vowed to restore democratic standards in Poland together won over 54% of the votes in the nation's weekend parliamentary election, putting them in a position to take power, according to a complete ballot count reported Tuesday.
The conservative Law and Justice party, whic... | Europe Politics |
The leader of Armenia's self-declared Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh has said it will cease to exist in the new year.
Samvel Shahramanyan announced on Thursday that he had signed an order dissolving all state institutions from 1 January.
The region, which had been controlled by Armenians for three decades, was seized by ... | Europe Politics |
TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan on Wednesday said it plans to offer friendly nations financial assistance to help them bolster their defenses, marking Tokyo's first unambiguous departure from rules that forbid using international aid for military purposes.
Japan's Overseas Security Assistance (OSA) will be operated separately... | Asia Politics |
US currently assesses that Israel is 'not responsible' for Gaza hospital blast
By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Jeremy Herb, CNN
(CNN) — The US government currently believes that Israel “is not responsible” for the blast at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday, according to the National Security Council, following Pre... | Middle East Politics |
A media firm owned by state energy giant Orlen has informed two opposition groups that it cannot publish their campaign adverts ahead of next week’s elections because of their “left-wing values”. One of the groups is not left-wing.
Polska Press, which publishes hundreds of newspapers and websites, including the main lo... | Europe Politics |
AFRIN, Syria -- One summer night a decade ago, the al-Shami family was woken up by a roaring sound or rockets but it wasn't followed by the usual explosions. Instead, the family members started having difficulty breathing.
Ghiad al-Shami, 26, remembers how everyone tried to run to the rooftop of their apartment buildin... | Middle East Politics |
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (Yonhap) -- Two Russian ships made at least five round trips between North Korea and Russia, beginning mid-August, in what could be arms transfers, the Washington Post reported Monday, citing satellite imagery.
Based on analysis by the Royal United ... | Asia Politics |
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Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in southern Gaza has displaced tens of thousands more Palestinians and worsened... | Middle East Politics |
By Aleksandra Krzysztoszek and Sonia Otfinowska | EURACTIV.pl Est. 3min 25-10-2023 (updated: 25-10-2023 ) Content-Type: News News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. In Brussels, Tusk would meet European Commission President Ursula ... | Europe Politics |
"The enemy is trying to move forward and then we beat them back," Oleksandr Shtupun, a spokesperson for Ukraine's southern forces, said on Wednesday evening.
According to Shtupun, Russia's losses in the last six days tallied at 2,500 dead and wounded in the area.
According to Ragnar Gudmundsson, an Iceland-based analys... | Europe Politics |
Negotiators are getting closer to anto release an initial 50 civilians in exchange for Israel allowing in more aid , coinciding with a limited pause in fighting, multiple sources told CBS News. More civilian hostage releases could potentially follow.
At this stage, there is no firm deal in hand but rather a written dra... | Middle East Politics |
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan will hold talks on Wednesday, April 5, with Taliban officials in Kabul "to seek clarity" on a new government ban that blocks women from working for the world body across the country.
Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban authorities have imposed a slew of restrictions... | Human Rights |
North Korea has said that any move to intercept and shoot down its test missiles would be considered “a declaration of war”.
The statement on Tuesday by Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, cited a South Korean media report that said the United States planned to shoot down Pyongyang’s in... | Asia Politics |
BRUSSELS — Moldova wants to become the EU’s newest member, pushing to be offered a clear path to accession when Brussels unveils its latest expansion plans next month despite fears that joining could drag the bloc into a decades-old frozen conflict with Russia.
Moldova’s Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu insisted in an int... | Europe Politics |
Kyiv has warned those living in Moscow to expect more attacks, adding the Russian capital’s air defenses appear incapable of protecting its citizens as the drone war between the two countries continues to escalate.
After a dramatic increase in Ukrainian attacks in recent weeks, Andriy Yusov, spokesperson for Ukrainian ... | Europe Politics |
After the debacle of Liz Truss's September mini-budget, with all its mega ramifications, and an autumn statement eight weeks later that performed an about-turn so big that the country's tax burden hit a 70-year-high, Wednesday's budget will be all about stability and sticking to the plan.
"No big bangs in this budget,... | United Kingdom Politics |
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