Officials in China are seeking to end historic protests of Covid lockdowns in China over the weekend. The weekend’s uprising poses an unprecedented political challenge for Chinese President Xi Jinping, as crowds called for him MORE
Lawmakers in France’s lower house of parliament began debating a proposal Thursday to enshrine abortion rights in the country’s constitution, the first step in a lengthy and uncertain legislative battle prompted by the rollback of abortion rights in the United States. MORE
Saudi Arabia has shared intelligence with the U.S. warning of an imminent attack from Iran on targets in the kingdom, putting the American military and others in the Middle East on an elevated alert level, MORE
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro will not contest his election defeat and will address the nation later on Tuesday, Communications Minister Fabio Faria told Reuters. The presidential address may MORE
LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s next prime minister after he won the race on Monday to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an economic MORE
LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned Thursday following a failed tax-cutting budget that rocked financial markets and which led to a revolt within her own Conservative Party. Truss said in a statement outside MORE
There was concern on Tuesday over the wellbeing of Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi, who competed in South Korea on Sunday without wearing the head covering required of all women by her country’s hardline Islamic government. MORE
Chinese leader Xi Jinping signaled Sunday that his government would maintain policies that have put it at odds with the U.S. and other nations and deepened Communist Party control of the economy and society. Many MORE
Some Congressional Democrats are calling to reexamine ties with key oil producers after a decision from OPEC+ to cut oil production by 2 millions barrels a day. Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, Illinois Rep. Sean Casten MORE
Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni has claimed victory in a general election that seems set to install her as Italy’s first female prime minister, leading the most far-right government since the fascist era of MORE
The Investigative Committee said that of the 24 people wounded, all but two were children. Regional governor Alexander Brechalov said surgeons had carried out a number of operations. A gunman with a swastika on his MORE
Mr Raisi has dismissed the protests as “riots”. Iran, he said, must “deal decisively with those who oppose the country’s security and tranquillity”. President Ebrahim Raisi pledged to “deal decisively” with the protests, which have MORE
The donkey penises were being smuggled to Hong Kong in 16 sacks but customs officers at Murtala Muhammed airport in the Nigerian city of Lagos intercepted the packages. Sambo Dangaladima, the customs controller at the MORE
Iran said Monday that Salman Rushdie and his supporters are to blame for the stabbing attack that left the famed author hospitalized with serious injuries. In its first public comments since the assault, Tehran denied any involvement but sought MORE
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday night despite threats from Beijing of serious consequences, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China MORE
President Biden defended his decision to meet with the Saudi crown prince who orchestrated the killing and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying the Saudis must be involved in any effort to stabilize a volatile MORE
This week, Biden announced a move that observers had long been expecting: An official visit to Saudi Arabia, effectively thawing diplomatic relations between the countries, and acknowledging that treating the powerful petrostate as a “pariah” MORE
Why? Navalny believes his charges are fabricated and are the result of his criticism and opposition to Putin. Navalny casts President Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a dystopian state run by thieves and criminals where wrong MORE
A U.S. Embassy tweet of a message by President Joe Biden in support of Pride Month has drawn a face-to-face diplomatic protest from Kuwait and sparked a rare Twitter fight between the two close allies. MORE
In a press conference in Ottawa, Canada on Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced legislation that will put a pause on importing, buying, or selling handguns. The legislation is expected to pass and MORE
From the Associated Press: French polling agencies are projecting that centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron will win France’s presidential runoff Sunday, beating far right rival Marine Le Pen in a tight race that was clouded by MORE
A Russian court sentenced Aleksei A. Navalny to nine years in a high-security prison on Tuesday, imposing a new punishment on the imprisoned opposition leader at a time when the war in Ukraine has made him even MORE
The glimmer of optimism that greeted Russia’s announcement that it was pulling troops back from the Ukrainian border looks to have been extinguished. A senior American official has reportedly accused the Kremlin of lying about its withdrawal, MORE
President Xi Jinping of China offered support to Putin’s opposition to a NATO expansion in a choreographed meeting ahead of the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics. It was the first in-person meeting Xi has MORE
NPR: On Tuesday, Amnesty International released a report saying the state of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is a crime against humanity, illegal under international law, and amounts to apartheid. “The Israeli government is committing the MORE