General election TV debate Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are gearing up to face off in the first head-to-head TV debate as the Prime Minister strives to turn his party’s fortunes around in the opinion polls. With four weeks ... 06/4/2024 - 11:38 pm | View Link
Tory Party manifesto 2024: Rishi Sunak’s expected policies for the general election The Conservatives are set to pledge amendments to the Equality Act that will make clear sex refers to “biological sex” to protect women’s spaces in their latest manifesto announcement. The move will ... 06/3/2024 - 8:48 pm | View Link
Orban believes Trump, EU could end Ukrainian conflict in 24 hours "If Trump and the EU wanted to end the war [in Ukraine], they could have done it in 24 hours. We must not forget that the war is waged by people, and these very people, if they are willing, have every ... 06/3/2024 - 5:29 pm | View Link
Swinney calls for ‘respectful’ Scottish leaders’ TV debate Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has called for a “respectful” contest ahead of the Scottish leaders’ first television debate of the election campaign. 06/2/2024 - 8:01 am | View Link
Tories in blistering attack against Keir Starmer over pledge to bring down immigration The Tories have accused Sir Keir Starmer of u-turning on his principles over immigration as campaigns ahead of the General Election intensify. The Labour Party leader pledged to slash levels of ... 06/1/2024 - 9:33 pm | View Link
A person in Mexico died after contracting a strain of bird flu that hasn’t been confirmed in humans before, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
The virus was detected in a 59-year-old who had been hospitalized in Mexico City. The person died one week after developing a fever, shortness of breath and diarrhea.
After six long weeks of voting in the grueling heat, India’s election delivered stunning results.
With all of the 640 million votes now counted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to preside over a rare, third consecutive term in power—making him only the second Indian prime minister to do so after Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962.
CAIRO — United Nations agencies warned Wednesday that over 1 million Palestinians in Gaza could experience the highest level of starvation by the middle of next month if hostilities continue.
The World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization said in a joint report that hunger is worsening because of heavy restrictions on humanitarian access and the collapse of the local food system in the nearly eight-month Israel-Hamas war.
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It says the situation remains dire in northern Gaza, which has been surrounded and largely isolated by Israeli troops for months.
U. S. intelligence officials are issuing a stark warning to America’s former “Top Gun” pilots: Don’t help China.
A new threat bulletin issued Wednesday warns that China’s People’s Liberation Army “continues to target” current and former Western fighter pilots to help teach Chinese pilots how to master one of the hardest maneuvers in aviation: taking off and landing on aircraft carriers.
FLORENCE, Italy — An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander on Wednesday, even after she was exonerated in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy.
The court found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time, of the killing.
Hong Kong, the Chinese enclave that’s still struggling to revive its tourism economy post-pandemic and in the wake of a Beijing-influenced crackdown on civil liberties, has taken a new approach to wooing visitors: curbing its residents’ reputation for rudeness.
Earlier this week, the city government launched a new campaign to promote politeness.