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As Mexicans head to the polls on Sunday to elect their next president and thousands of state and local posts, much of the country is suffering historic drought, intense heat, and occasional power blackouts. Water shortages may not be a new phenomenon in the Latin American country, especially in the
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Italy's and France's far-right leaders Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen should end their rivalry and reinforce cooperation after June's European Parliament election, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told French magazine Le Point in an interview published on Wednesday. "If they manage to
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India's Agnikul Cosmos called off a test flight of its first rocket on Tuesday seconds before it was due to launch - the fourth such cancellation in the last three months. Launches of India's second privately built rocket, and first using a combination of gas and
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FIFA and UEFA "abused their dominant position" and "prevented free competition" by opposing the creation of a European Super League, a Spanish court said Monday. The ruling, which echoed an earlier ruling by European Court of Justice, ordered football's two governing bodies "to
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Both will be high on the agenda this week as Small Island Developing States (SIDS), as they're formally known, meet Monday at their fourth UN Conference, in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Caught between rising debts and rising oceans, from the Caribbean to Africa to the
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More than 10,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain in small boats so far this year, updated government data showed on Saturday, underlining a key challenge facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a July 4 national election. The number of people landing on England’s southern beaches after
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South Asia is experiencing extreme weather conditions, with at least nine killed due to a suspected heat stroke in India's west, while parts of Bangladesh and neighbouring states are likely to be hit by a cyclone in a couple of days. Extreme temperatures throughout Asia last month were
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Iran's Supreme Leader led prayers in Tehran on Wednesday at the funeral of President Ebrahim Raisi as the clerical establishment hurried to organise the election of a successor, which could further erode its legitimacy amid growing public discontent. The June 28 vote to replace Raisi, killed in a
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Britain unlawfully gave police wider powers to impose conditions on peaceful protests which cause “more than minor” disruption to the public, London’s High Court ruled on Tuesday. Civil rights group Liberty took the government to court over changes to public order laws made last year, which it says gave
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Syria’s first lady, Asma Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday, almost five years after she announced she had fully recovered from breast cancer. The statement said Asma, 48, would undergo a special treatment protocol that would require her to isolate, and that she
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Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has died after a helicopter carrying him and other officials crashed in a mountainous and forested area of the country in poor weather. The 63-year-old, a figure representing conservative and hardline factions in Iranian politics, was president for nearly three years, and appeared on track
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Tycoon Elon Musk arrived on the Indonesian island of Bali on Sunday ahead of the planned launch of SpaceX's Starlink internet service, which the Indonesian government hopes will boost internet penetration and health services in remote parts of the sprawling archipelago. Chief investment minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan greeted
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The White House said Friday that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan would meet with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday before going to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday.
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Pope Francis is planning to visit Turkey next year to mark the anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, the spiritual head of the world's Orthodox Christians said on Thursday. The early centuries of Christianity were marked by lively debate about how Jesus could be both God and
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s life “is in danger” and he is still in the operating theater after being shot multiple times, the country’s interior minister said on Wednesday. “We received information from the operating doctors that the prime minister is in a critical condition and his life
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The attack on a prison van in northern France that left two guards dead and three wounded began at 10:57 am (0857 GMT) and lasted just two minutes. A black Peugeot SUV rammed the vehicle as it emerged, lights flashing and followed by a second prison service car, from