Agency : Sri Lanka votes in a presidential election next month, the first since the country’s unprecedented economic crisis forced...
Deutsche Welle : Billionaire heiress Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Friday is set to be Thailand’s youngest-ever prime minister after having received...
AFP : Pakistan said on Friday it had confirmed a case of mpox, a day after Sweden recorded the first...
Al Jazeera : The humanitarian crisis caused by the civil war in Sudan has exacerbated infections, including cholera, which has killed more than 300 people, a World Health Organization (WHO) official says. Margaret Harris said on Friday that 11,327 cholera cases and 316 deaths had been reported and dengue fever and meningitis infections were also on the rise. “We expect to have more than has been reported,” she added. According to the WHO, the recent outbreaks of cholera have also...
CNN : An assault by dozens of Israeli settlers has devastated a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, drawing blistering condemnation from top Israeli officials. More than 70 armed settlers invaded the town of Jit on Thursday, firing bullets and tear gas at residents and setting several homes and cars and other property on fire, according to the head of Jit’s village council, Nasser Sedda. Sedda said his cousin, Rashid Sedda, was killed in the attack. The Palestinian Authority’s...
Reuters : Thirty-nine candidates for Sri Lanka’s presidential election submitted nominations on Thursday as the Indian Ocean island nation prepares for a 21 Sept vote key to charting its path out of a gruelling financial crisis. The election will be Sri Lanka’s first major poll since it ran out of foreign reserves, sending its economy into freefall and forcing it to default on its foreign debt in 2022. “The Election Commission believes we will get the support of political parties,...
Deutsche Welle : Billionaire heiress Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Friday is set to be Thailand’s youngest-ever prime minister after having received the backing of a majority of lawmakers in the country’s parliament. Shinawatra is the 37-year-old daughter of billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and the niece of another former prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra. She has never held elected office before. The Pheu Thai party selected her as its candidate after a court sacked Premier Srettha Thavisin on Wednesday for appointing...
Al Jazeera : Indian-administered Kashmir will hold local elections starting on September 18, according to the Election Commission, the first regional polls there in a decade and five years after New Delhi scrapped the region’s special autonomy. “After a long gap, elections are due and will be held in Jammu and Kashmir,” Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar told reporters in New Delhi on Friday. Voting for the region’s assembly will be held in three stages between September 18 and October...
Al Jazeera : Qatar’s top intelligence official has been awarded a medal from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for his...
AFP : A few short weeks ago, Joe Biden was set to headline the Democratic National Convention — but after...
AFP : Pakistan said on Friday it had confirmed a case of mpox, a day after Sweden recorded the first...