JERUSALEM and south LEBANON – Christian-Muslim tensions in Lebanon have erupted after the murder of well-known Christian politician Pascal Sleiman. Given his fierce opposition to Hezbollah, Lebanese Christians are worried for their safety as the terror group's intimidation grows. A Syrian gang is believed to have kidnapped and murdered Sleiman, a strong believer and senior member of the Christian Lebanese Forces Party. Experts here see it as a political assassination linked to Hezbollah, meant...
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Limerick TD Willie O’Dea criticised the idea that the government should run the full term.
In a meeting organised by People Before Profit, the activist and author will deliver his talk at 7pm in St Columb’s Hall. Allen is the author of several books on US politics, foreign policy and Labour relations. These include, Vietnam the Last War the US lost, and his most recent book on the struggle for Trade Union rights within United Parcel Service. Allen has been active in radical politics for over four decades. Speaking ahead of the event on Wednesday evening in Derry, a spokesperson for...
Project Greek Island was a secret bunker under the luxurious Greenbrier Hotel. Government employees posed as hotel staff to keep it stocked with supplies. A 1992 news story blew the government's cover, and it was decommissioned. READ MORE:
The Brazilian beauty has been partying at a sprawling $7000-a night, five-bedroom, retreat in the Indio dessert where she also rang in her 43rd birthday - with a serenade from a mystery man.
Which OECD Countries Allow Donations To Political Parties? Less than half of OECD countries ban anonymous donations for political financing, according to data published in the Anti-Corruption and Integrity Outlook 2024 released by the OECD. The report argues that this leaves these countries “exposed to undue influence.” The following chart, from Statista's Anna Fleck, shows which countries have enforced regulations on the complete ban of financial contributions from anonymous...
From the budget deficit to yet another Macron 'bromance', via croissants, social spending and a very unfortunate diving board fail, our weekly newsletter Inside France looks at what we have been talking about in France this week.
Some states make it much easier to get on the ballot as a minor-party presidential candidate, compared with running as an independent. That's why RFK Jr. and Cornel West have made their own parties.
After the state passed a law barring government contractors from donating to politicians, fund-raising parties showed just how completely the reform effort failed.
Director Alex Garland is out to prove that you can make a movie about a modern American civil war without getting political. And he wants to do it in an election year. The question is: Why? His new film “Civil War,” which opened Friday, follows an unlikely group of journalists as they make their way from New York to Washington, D.C., as the rebel "Western Forces," made up of California and Texas, close in on the capital. Two of those journalists — Lee (Kirsten Dunst), a legendary conflict...
Mali's ruling military junta on Thursday banned media coverage of political parties a day after suspending their activities, marking the latest crackdown on dissent in the West African nation. Opposition voices have been largely stifled since the colonels seized power in a 2020 coup, overthrowing civilian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.