Politics
The politically divisive White House race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has also highlighted a marked voting divergence between women and men, according to polling data and analysts. Democrat Harris, who is of Black and South Asian descent, is vying to be the United States’s first woman president,
Politics
Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who has claimed he defeated Nicolas Maduro in last month’s election, said Monday he was ready to negotiate a transition — and asked the incumbent to “step aside.” “Mr. Nicolas Maduro, respect what all Venezuelans have decided... You and your government should step
Politics
Thousands of Indian junior doctors on Monday refused to end protests over the rape and murder of a fellow medic, disrupting hospital services nearly a week since they launched a nation-wide action demanding safer workplace and swift criminal action. Doctors across the country have held protests and declined to see
Politics
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered on Friday support to the interim leader of neighboring Bangladesh, who took power after New Delhi’s autocratic ally Sheikh Hasina was ousted. The comments were made following a phone call between Modi and Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is heading the
Politics
Within a week of unseating Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister, the students who drove out Sheikh Hasina were directing Dhaka’s traffic. Decked out in neon vests, their university IDs slung around their necks, they clutch sticks and umbrellas to wave cars this way and that, filling the void after
Politics
Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council President Faiq Zidane met with Venezuela’s Ambassador Arturo Anibal Gallegos Ramirez on Tuesday in Baghdad to discuss relations between the two countries. According to a statement from the Supreme Judicial Council, Zidane and Ramirez explored ways to strengthen cooperation in the judicial field, the
Politics
The success of the Olympic Games has surpassed the wildest dreams of many in France but in the next weeks President Emmanuel Macron still will have to face the reality of the deadlocked politics created by his calling of snap legislative elections. With the Games just around the corner, the
Politics
Four internally displaced people were killed and many others were injured on Sunday in Yemen’s central province of Marib when torrential rains and high winds pounded their tents. The four deaths take to 61 the toll in Yemen reported by the UN since late July. The internationally recognized government’
Politics
Britain announced a new package of sanctions against Belarus on Friday, saying four individuals and three entities had been targeted over human rights violations and the ongoing facilitation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The British government said the coordinated action with international partners marked the fourth anniversary of the
Politics
Kamala Harris was set to announce her running mate Tuesday before the pair head out on a five-day swing through America’s hottest battleground states, just three months out from the presidential election. The US vice president’s campaign has come out of the blocks at a lightning pace since
Politics
Bangladeshi student leaders on Saturday said they would carry on a planned nationwide civil disobedience campaign until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned following last month’s deadly police crackdown on protesters. Rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of mayhem in July that killed more than 200 people in
News
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday that Israel killed Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh using a “short-range projectile” launched from outside of his accommodation in Tehran. “This terrorist operation was carried out by firing a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kilograms -- causing a strong explosion -
Politics
The future of Venezuela is on the line. Voters will decide Sunday whether to reelect President Nicolas Maduro, whose 11 years in office have been beset by crisis, or allow the opposition a chance to deliver on a promise to undo the ruling party’s policies that caused economic collapse
Politics
Sri Lanka’s first presidential elections since an unprecedented economic crisis spurred widespread unrest will be held in September, the election commission said Friday. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has steered an effort to repair the island nation’s ruined finances, will face at least two rivals campaigning against austerity measures
Politics
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned after the agency came under harsh scrutiny for its failure to stop a would-be assassin from wounding former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally, the White House said on Tuesday. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Politics
Rwandan President Paul Kagame was gearing up Tuesday for a fourth term in office after winning a thundering 99.15 percent of the vote in an election where only two challengers were allowed to run against him. The outcome of Monday’s poll was never in doubt, with Kagame ruling