VICTORIA – Former parliament speaker Patrick Herminie has won Seychelles’ presidential election, defeating incumbent Wavel Ramkalawan with 52.7% of the vote, official results showed on Sunday. The victory restores full control to the United Seychelles party, which also regained its parliamentary majority in last month’s elections. Seychelles, an Indian Ocean island nation and Africa’s richest […]
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Pakistan’s politics has a way of turning every national tragedy into a contest of egos. The recent feud between the PPP and PML-N, played out in walkouts, press conferences and ministerial barbs, serves as a grim reminder that our federation’s fragility is not structural. It is political. At a time when over two million Pakistanis […]
Mass protests across the US target trump and Musk’s policies
On April 5, protests broke out in Washington and other US cities against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Organizers planned 1,200 protests nationwide. They expect it to be the largest protest day against Trump and Musk. Over 20,000 people are expected to rally at the National Mall. The protests follow Trump’s executive orders and […]
Putin to host talks between rivals Armenia, Azerbaijan
Moscow: The Kremlin on Friday confirmed Russian President Vladimir Putin will host talks in Sochi on Monday between the leaders of arch-foes Armenia and Azerbaijan. “On the initiative of the Russian side, tripartite negotiations between… Putin, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will be held on October 31 in Sochi,” the […]
UK PM faces fresh political woes after difficult MPs meeting
Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss faced fresh woes on Thursday after a prominent Conservative party insider said some of her own MPs were considering a push to replace her with two former rivals. “All sorts of different people are talking about all sorts of different things because the Conservative backbenchers are casting around for […]
Omer Sarfaraz Cheema appointed Punjab Home Advisor
Omer Sarfaraz Cheema appointed Punjab Home Advisor. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan approved Omer Sarfaraz Cheema’s appointment as Home Advisor in Punjab. The government of Punjab‘s decision to hand over the duties of the Home Ministry to Omer Sarfaraz Cheema is finalized. Former prime minister Imran Khan has approved the decision. Prior to this, […]
Dating apps getting political in Brazil
São Paulo: In Brazil, supporting the right presidential candidate may actually get you a hot date. “Please tell me that you aren’t a leftist, you are too pretty to be one,” Vivian read in one message she received on the dating app Tinder. But Vivian supports Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist who is […]
Shahbaz Gill Moved To PIMS Hospital In Critical Condition
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan: Descending into a banana republic. The civilised world will be shocked at our levels of barbarism. The worst part is an easy target has been chosen to make an example of through torture & without a fair trial. Meanwhile the likes of NS, Maryam, MFR, AZ, all of whom have […]
German arrested for Hitler salute to Israeli athletes
Munich, Germany: A German security guard has been arrested for making a Hitler salute in front of a group of Israeli athletes visiting a memorial to the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, police said on Wednesday. The 16 athletes from the Israeli European Championships team were visiting the Olympic Park in Munich on Tuesday evening when […]
Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia’s first leftist president
Bogota: Gustavo Petro on Sunday took the oath of office as Colombia’s first-ever leftist president, before a crowd of hundreds of thousands at his inauguration in Bogota. The 62-year-old former guerrilla and onetime mayor takes over from the deeply unpopular Ivan Duque, with plans for profound reforms in a country beset by economic inequality and […]