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President Donald Trump's 2024 election-winning policy around immigration could come back to bite him and the Republican Party this November, with a new report showing rising economic pressures on American citizens as more immigrants are detained and deported.
Russia’s upcoming election is expected to cement United Russia’s dominance, but voter turnout and its margin of victory could offer clues to public discontent.
Turkish, Iranian foreign ministers discuss latest developments, efforts to end conflict by phone aa.com.tr
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s warning that abusive, inflammatory and threatening campaign language will attract severe sanctions under the Electoral Act 2026 is timely, but hardly novel. At the beginning of virtually every election season, INEC issues sim...
When President Bola Tinubu transmitted the state police constitutional amendment bill to the Senate, the debate largely revolved around insecurity, banditry and the inability of the Nigeria Police Force to police a country of over 200 million people effectively.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gestures as he departs at the Liszt Ferenc International Airport in Budapest, Hungary, on February 16, 2026. (Photo by Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP)
Lifa Miya, 40, wants Duduzile Zuma‑Sambudla and other recruiters prosecuted for allegedly luring men under false pretences to Russia’s frontline war in Ukraine.
Kabotar Chowk's Rs2b project was scheduled for completion today
MANILA, Philippines — “Sparks Camp” is introducing a new feature in its fourth season where its queer campers can freely express themselves away from the other participants.
A woman is consoled as people mourn Sikh community leader and temple president Hardeep Singh Nijjar during Antim Darshan, the first part of day-long funeral services for him, in Surrey, British Columbia, on June 25, 2023. Nijjar was gunned down in his vehicle while leaving the Gu...
An Argentinian judge has ordered the suspension of a British-Israeli oil project near the Falkland Islands in a purely symbolic move as Argentina escalates its claim over the British-administered territory.
US President Donald Trump had tried to pressure the Fed to lower rates, but it voted unanimously to raise them instead.
The United States has declined to grant visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The system of power in Russia is often referred to as "managed democracy" (where the Kremlin does the managing).
International students, so-called "visa hoppers" and backpackers will be targeted under stricter rules announced by Australia on Thursday in a bid to curb immigration.
Fiji declared HIV a national crisis following a 27 per cent surge in new diagnoses last year, raising fears that an outbreak previously concentrated among people injecting drugs was spreading broader across the Pacific nation.
The Russia Sanctions Bill, which grants the US President unprecedented powers to levy 100% tariffs on nations buying oil from Moscow, has cleared the final hurdle. The US House of Representatives passed the bipartisan sanctions bill targeting Russia on Wednesday. The legislation,...
The Federation of North Karnataka Associations has urged the State Government to designate a city in the region as the second capital of Karnataka, and also establish an international airport