• Trump boasts ‘We broke Roe v Wade’ as abortion dogs GOP election hopes

    Republican presumptive nominee struggles to articulate position on divisive issue after meeting with House speakerFacing the press alongside the House speaker, fellow Republican Mike Johnson, Donald Trump bragged: “We broke Roe v Wade.”The former president made the stark admission about his dominant role in attacks on abortion rights at the end of a week in which the rightwing Arizona state supreme court ruled that an 1864 law imposing a near-total ban could go back into effect. Continue...

  • Bigotry & Chaos: Why Reform Is Not Election Ready – HOPE not hate

    HOPE not hate reveals ANOTHER shameful Reform UK candidate – and lifts the lid on the party’s chaotic selection process The incompetent selection of Reform

  • Lille beat Marseille to boost Champions League hopes

    Canadian star Jonathan David scored his 23rd goal of the season to set Lille on the way to a 3-1 win over Marseille on Friday that kept them firmly on course for next season's Champions League.The top three in Ligue 1 will qualify automatically for next season's expanded Champions League, with the team in fourth entering Europe's elite club competition in the preliminary rounds.

  • 'Enough is enough': PM Assange call as Biden gives hope

    “Enough is enough,” Anthony Albanese has declared, following indications the US is considering dropping charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The prime minister said it was time to end the long-running saga after US president Joe Biden responded with “we are considering it” when asked for his response to Australian requests to end the pursuit […]

  • PM Trudeau defends integrity of Canadian elections before public inquiry

    The prime minister made a highly anticipated appearance before an inquiry looking into foreign meddling.

  • South Korea PM offers to resign after heavy defeat in parliamentary elections

    PM Han Duk-soo said the government ‘humbly accepted’ the election result, which severely dents the political power of the president Senior ruling party politicians in South Korea have offered to resign to take responsibility for its heavy defeat in Wednesday’s national assembly elections – a result that has severely weakened the country’s conservative president, Yoon Suk Yeol.The prime minister, Han Duk-soo, tendered his resignation on Thursday as the scale of the drubbing meted out to the...

  • Before Ecuadorian police broke into Mexican Embassy, governments were feuding over election, asylum

    A spat between Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spiraled into a full-blown diplomatic crisis when Ecuadorian police raided Mexico’s embassy Friday night in an extremely rare show of force that legal experts, presidents and diplomats have deemed a violation of long-established international accords. With

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    Before Ecuadorian police broke into Mexican Embassy, governments were feuding over election, asylum

    By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A spat between Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spiraled into a full-blown diplomatic crisis when Ecuadorian police raided Mexico’s embassy Friday night in an extremely rare show of force that international law experts, presidents and diplomats have deemed a

  • Before Ecuadorian police broke into Mexican Embassy, governments were feuding over election, asylum

    A spat between Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spiraled into a full-blown diplomatic crisis when Ecuadorian police raided Mexico’s embassy Friday night in an extremely rare show of force that international law experts, presidents and diplomats have deemed a violation of long-established international accords

  • [ELECTION] Resounding win boosts prospects of DPK chief's next presidential bid

    With the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) projected to secure a majority of seats in the National Assembly in the general elections, Wednesday, its chairman Lee Jae-myung is highly likely to establish himself as the party's leading presidential candidate for the 2027 election.

  • ‘Flexibility can be helpful’: why PM can choose UK general election date

    While Lib Dems want to bring back fixed-term parliaments scrapped by Tories, Labour has no apparent interestIf Rishi Sunak sounds tetchy when asked the question, it is nothing compared with the frustrations of many voters: when exactly will there be an election? And why, crucially, is it entirely up to him?To give the short answer, this is just the way UK politics is. Barring a fairly brief and largely botched recent experiment with fixed-term parliaments, election dates remain in the gift of a...

  • Deputy PM Oliver Dowden hints January 2025 general election is possible

    Oliver Dowden said 2024 will ‘almost certainly’ be a general election year, but did not rule out the prospect of a contest happening next year