Mauritanian PM reappointed hours after resign
Mauritania’s prime minister resigned Friday after a scathing report on two major electric facility fires, but he was reappointed hours later and asked to form...
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Bus driver’s daughter Navi Pillay wins Nobel
The news of renowned South African jurist and international court judge Navi Pillay winning the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has triggered an unprecedented political and...
Possibility that Trump will cost the GOP the Senate is coming into focus
President Donald Trump might well have cost Republicans the Senate majority in both 2020 and 2022. In the former, even Trump himself has allowed that...
Putin offers Iran help to end Mideast war
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin vowed on Thursday to “do everything” to help end the Middle East war when he met Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian for...
European groups seek EU action on China trade
Forty-four European industry associations urged EU members on Thursday to take immediate action to combat what they said were unfair Chinese trade practices threatening EU...
Zelensky criticises Kyiv
President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Kyiv’s city authorities over their failure to implement resilience measures as Russian strikes caused significant damage to Ukraine’s power grid and...
France offers 3,000 more teachers to ease protests
The French government has made its first sign of giving ground to teenage protesters, with a promise of 3,000 extra supply teachers in the coming...
Five dead as bottom of Istanbul building crumbles
Five people, including three children, were killed in an Istanbul building collapse that saw the bottom storeys crumble and the top floors remain perched on...
Trump rules out Iran attack before US midterms
President Donald Trump on Thursday ruled out attacking Iran before the US midterm elections on November 3, saying Washington was holding “productive discussions” with Tehran....
India deploys police ahead of election protest
Thousands of police were deployed across the Indian capital on Friday (Oct 9), a day before planned protests to demand the election commission chief step...
Yemen’s Houthis claim attack on Riyadh airport
Yemen’s Houthis said Thursday that they struck the Saudi capital’s main international airport with a ballistic missile, in another attack on the kingdom claimed by...
Malaysia PM to work on Myanmar’s ASEAN return
Malaysia’s prime minister has said his government will do “whatever possible” to ensure Myanmar’s reintegration into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), after hosting...