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US stocks fell and Treasury yields rose after the government reported that employers unexpectedly added 162,000 jobs last month, a development that could increase chances that the US central bank will raise interest rates later this month.
London: German politician Ulrich Siegmund has surged to success with a simple promise to return his community to the more comfortable times of the past.
Four concrete slabs languishing beside Parramatta Road in Sydney’s inner west will be transformed with hundreds of new apartments, under a Minns government plan to use surplus land for housing.
Primary students in Fig Tree Pocket have to wait for the bus in the sun and exposed to storms because there is no shelter at the stop outside their school – and the council never progressed a grant application to build one.
After the prime minister had taken his leave and an exhausted, exhilarated Jai Arrow had hugged his last well-wisher, the Rabbitohs team bus sat idling in the bowels of Allianz Stadium on Friday night.
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Ulrich Siegmund was the main candidate for Alternative for Germany. (AFP: Ronny Hartmann)
Germany’s far-right and avowedly pro-Israel Alternative for Germany (AfD) has swept the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, bringing the party within reach of governing a German state for the first time since the end of the Nazi period.
Manager praises team’s resilience after late equaliser
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Donald Trump is facing mounting political pressures from a protracted and unpopular war in Iran. (Reuters: Evelyn Hockstein)
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White Australia is challenging its ban in the High Court. (ABC NEWS Verify/Devi Mallal)
A Massachusetts jury deliberated for roughly 38 hours over seven days and failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the case against Lindsay Clancy, resulting in Judge William Sullivan declaring a mistrial on Friday due to a holdout juror.
MK Avidgor Liberman, chairman of Yisrael Beytenu, announced on Sunday his selection of candidates for his party's Knesset slate ahead of Tuesday's deadline to submit lists before the October elections.
Former staffers for Sen. John Fetterman claim the Democratic Pennsylvania senator is apathetic about several aspects of his job and has canceled or refused meetings with them to appear on conservative news outlets or meet with Israeli advocacy groups, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
El técnico de Arsenal Mikel Arteta da instrucciones a Martin Odegaard durante el partido contra Chelsea en la Liga Premier, el domingo 6 de septiembre de 2026, en Londres. (AP Foto/Dave Shopland)
The first heavyweight encounter of the Premier League season was previewed in some quarters as the immovable object versus the irresistible force. Arsenal do not give an inch. Chelsea have been fun and free-scoring under Xabi Alonso. Yet that overlooked something pretty fundamental. The percussive force of Arsenal’s…
En esta fotografía de archivo del 20 de abril de 2025, el delantero del Leicester City, Jamie Vardy, durante el partido de fútbol de la Liga Premier de Inglaterra entre el Leicester City y el Liverpool en el estadio King Power en Leicester, Inglaterra. (Foto AP/Rui Vieira, Archivo)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal trial resumed at the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday after the summer recess, beginning a new stretch of the defense case in which the remaining witnesses for Netanyahu and his three co-defendants will take the stand.
You think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in power for a long time? Consider Degel Hatorah’s Moshe Gafni.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered unauthorized settler outposts in the West Bank to be dismantled, two people familiar with the matter said on Sunday, amid pressure from the US to crack down on settler attacks on Palestinians.
The opposition right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is projected to win Sunday’s regional election in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt with 44.5% of the vote, according to exit polls. The vote was marked by a high voter turnout, German media outlets have reported.
Martin Odegaard's winner was his second Premier League goal of the season
America's socialist leadership increasingly looks less like a political movement and more like a circus where the clowns run the show.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that "the end of the Iranian regime is near," and that its fall would "change the fate of the Middle East and the Jewish people."
A last-gasp wonder goal on his debut from Ainsley Maitland-Niles earned Everton a 2-2 Premier League draw with Manchester United on Sunday.
There are grounds for cautious optimism following Saturday’s talks between US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and ex-White House aide Steve Gill have told RT.
Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday announced a heightened military posture in the war with the US, saying that new attacks on the country will "meet a faster, heavier and more painful response."
The anti-immigration AfD is seeking to become the first far-right party to lead a regional government in the country since World War II
The anti-immigration AfD is seeking to become the first far-right party to lead a regional government in the country since World War II
THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) may have to further tighten policy to address peso and inflation pressures even if this weighs on economic growth, a Cabinet official said.
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas on Sunday was forced to cancel the launch of a new high-level group made up of former political and military leaders following pressure from EU member countries, in what could prove another blow to the former Estonian prime minister.
Legal fight continues as states begin sending out ballots for voters to vote by mail in November’s midterm elections
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Exit poll shows Alternative für Deutschland on 44.5% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt after huge turnout, with votes still being counted
THE government’s P20-per-kilogram rice program has enough funding until President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. steps down in June 2028, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Sunday.
BERLIN — Exit polls suggest the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is on track to win Sunday’s crucial regional election in Saxony-Anhalt that will determine whether the far right will hold a position of real power in the country for the first time since World War II.
MAGUING, Lanao del Sur — The Philippine Army’s 1st Infantry "Tabak" Division (1ID) has mobilized troops from the 55th Infantry "Vigilant" Battalion (55IB) across Lanao del Sur on Saturday to safeguard the upcoming Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliamentary elections.
THE Senate impeachment court can vote on the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte even if the conviction threshold is challenged before the Supreme Court, a member of the House prosecution team said on Sunday.
THE government has begun deploying fast-to-install flood barriers along the flood-prone San Simon Interchange and Tulaoc Bridge sections of the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), two days after Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon ordered additional defenses following the massive flooding that paralyzed traffic last week.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won the Saxony-Anhalt elections in Germany’s east, according to exit polls, becoming the first far-right party to take power at a state level since World War II.
TOKYO — Prince Hisahito turned 20 on Sunday as he faces growing attention as a future monarch in Japan following the government’s unpopular revision to the Imperial House Law that reinforces male-only succession rules.
TAIPEI — Foxconn’s third-quarter performance is expected to outperform market expectations given strong artificial intelligence (AI)-related demand, the Taiwanese contract electronics maker said on Saturday, though it offered caution about “volatile” global politics.
WHETHER or not the doctrine of the president’s immunity from suit applies to the vice president has become a swirling controversy among certain politicized members of the bar. Lawyers of various political persuasions have joined the current debate on the subject owing to the issuance of a warrant of arrest by a Quez…
The Central Elections Committee voted on Sunday to allow party representatives inside polling stations to report in real time which voters have cast ballots, restoring - for now - a central part of parties’ Election Day turnout operations ahead of the October 27 election.
BACOLOD CITY — Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson has vowed to sustain the campaign against the red-striped soft scale insect (RSSI) as the provincial government of Negros Occidental announced a promising breakthrough using locally developed biocontrol materials.