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Scottish leader scraps coalition deal with Greens
Apr 25, 2024 (AFP)
The announcement by First Minister Humza Yousaf came a week after the devolved government abandoned an ambitious climate pledge, sparking tension with its junio...
EU parliament's youngest lawmaker eyes re-election
Apr 24, 2024 (AFP)
A Danish lawmaker with the leftwing Greens group, Peter-Hansen entered the parliament five years ago, still a university student at the time and the youngest me...
Polish PM warns of 'lunatics and traitors' on far-right
Apr 24, 2024 (AFP)
"I sometimes get the impression that the Russians better understand the importance of these elections than some of us," said Tusk in a campaign speech urging Po...
Chinese spying claims deepen German far right's woes
Apr 24, 2024 (AFP)
German authorities on Tuesday said they had arrested an aide to Maximilian Krah, a member of the European Parliament for the AfD and the party's top candidate f...
Green MEPs demand speedy EU parliament probe after espionage arrest
Apr 23, 2024 (AFP)
"We demand preliminary results before the (European Union) elections" in June, said lead Green MEP Terry Reintke. "Autocracies like China and Russia are activel...
Ecuador leader hails apparent approval of extradition, anti-gang measures
Apr 22, 2024 (AFP)
New bloodshed stained the day as assailants shot dead a prison warden in coastal Ecuador. The "yes" vote in favor of extradition received 72 percent support, wh...
Ecuador voters approve extradition of mafia bosses: authorities
Apr 22, 2024 (AFP)
Some 65 percent of valid ballots were marked "yes" for extradition, and 35 percent marked "no," according to a quick count of vote results, according to a tally...
Muizzu: Pro-China engineer sweeps Maldives election
Apr 22, 2024 (AFP)
The 45-year-old's People's National Congress decimated its pro-Indian rival to secure an iron-clad two-thirds majority at Sunday's polls for the 93-member assem...
Violence-battered Ecuadorans vote on anti-crime measures
Apr 21, 2024 (AFP)
The once-peaceful South American country has recently found itself in the grips of a terrorizing wave of violence blamed on gangs with links to transnational ca...
Landslide win for pro-China leader's party in Maldives vote
Apr 21, 2024 (AFP)
Muizzu's People's National Congress (PNC) had secured more than two thirds in the 93-member parliament, according to provisional results from the Elections Comm...
ASEAN 'deeply concerned' by escalating Myanmar violence
Apr 19, 2024 (AFP)
The foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations urged "all parties for an immediate cessation of violence" in Myanmar, which has been roiled...
House Rules Committee advances Ukraine, Israel aid bills with help from Democrats
Apr 19, 2024 (UPI)
The panel voted 9 to 3 to adopt a rule to move three supplemental appropriation bills for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific to the full House along with a fo...
Vote counting starts in Solomon Islands as China, US trade barbs
Apr 18, 2024 (AFP)
Ballots were trucked into a heavily guarded counting centre in the capital Honiara, watched over by international teams of uniformed Fijian soldiers and Austral...
US House leader faces backlash over Ukraine, Israel aid proposal
Apr 16, 2024 (AFP)
Johnson, who leads a razor-thin Republican majority, announced late Monday that his chamber would vote this week on separate aid bills for Ukraine, Israel, and ...
Solomon Islands readies for election in shadow of China's influence
Apr 14, 2024 (AFP)
The archipelago, one of the world's least-developed countries, is the unlikely focal point of a diplomatic scramble pitting a rising China against Western rival...
Peru court sentences killers of Indigenous land defenders
Apr 12, 2024 (AFP)
The four leaders of the Ashaninka people -- a group from a remote area along the border between Brazil and Peru -- were killed in front of members of their comm...
South Korea opposition set for landslide in parliamentary election
Apr 10, 2024 (AFP)
With nearly all of Wednesday's votes tallied, the opposition Democratic Party (DP) and its satellite party were on course to win 176 of the country's 300 Nation...
Courtrooms: a growing arena in the climate fight
Apr 09, 2024 (AFP)
On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change, its first such ruling against a state on th...
Brazil high court rules army can't intervene in politics
Apr 08, 2024 (AFP)
The unanimous decision by the court's 11 judges rejected the argument often advanced by Bolsonaro and his far-right backers that Brazil's constitution establish...
Milei reignites debate on Argentine dictatorship, military
Apr 05, 2024 (AFP)
This week, at an event with veterans of the Falklands War that Argentina lost to the United Kingdom in 1982, Milei lashed out at what he said was a policy under...
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