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A social media influencer in Pune was forced to do sit-ups and bow before a photograph of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray after party workers accused him of making obscene and personal remarks about him in a reel.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faced fresh pressure on Monday after his party suffered two defeats in regional elections, raising new questions over his authority and his plan to push through reforms in Europe’s biggest economy. Voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerani...
Pilot, who is also Congress party's poll incharge in Punjab, further wrote: "Resident of Namol village, Jagga Singh, consumed a poisonous substance outside the DC's office. Ever since he started posting videos against drugs, he had been receiving threats and being harassed. Amids...
Support for Australia’s center-left government fell to a new low as approval for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese weakened, according to a new poll.
US President Donald Trump told Fox News he would "probably" be open to meeting his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York this week. Oil dropped for a fourth day, with Brent set for the longest losing run since June, as tra...
Houthi supporters brandish weapons during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, on September 18, 2026. © Mohammed Hamoud / Getty Images Yemen’s Houthi rebels have vowed not to target countries other than Saudi Arabia after their forces captured strategic positions around the Bab el-M...
Russia wraps up first wartime parliamentary election with Kremlin dominance all but assured pbs.org
The two leaders' meeting comes at a time when both countries are experiencing strained relations with the United States.
The vice-presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress and former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said he is willing to reconcile with Governor Abba Yusuf. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Kwankwaso spoke in an interview with BBC Hausa Service publis...
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The ANC now appears to be in a doom loop – as it loses votes, so the fights for the positions and power left over become more intense, and thus it loses more votes. And each public division will speed up the party’s decline.
EFF leader Julius Malema yesterday urged the Red Berets to campaign at every house and ensure that Cape Town is a liberated zone in the local government elections.
Dean Macpherson, John Steenhuisen, and Haniff Hoosen at the launch of the DA's election campaign in Shallcross.
Dr Mabila Mathebula is an author, ghostwriter and life coach, and has a PhD in Construction Management.
“South Africa has become a graveyard of progressive policies ... a political economy of inefficiency is settling in” — Prof Somadoda Fikeni
Incumbent senators attend their first session at parliament on July 23, 2024. Chanat Katanyu The Election Commission (EC)'s decision to refer the Senate vote-rigging case, which involves 77 suspects, to the Supreme Court has put 26 serving senators from the so-called "blue camp" ...
The House prosecution panel on Monday decided to forgo presenting Assistant Commissioner Ariel Ronquillo of the Civil Service Commission as a witness for the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
Not far from there, campaign posters clung to the sides of bombed-out buildings, a stark reminder of bloody battles between jihadist fighters and government forces nearly a decade ago.
MANILA, Philippines — The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has flagged unreadable physical election returns (ERs) for the first Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliamentary elections, which makes it difficult to manually audit the in...