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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc will probably not reach 61 seats. Yet Likud figures are already reportedly exploring what happens next: A unity government in which Netanyahu – who else? – remains would insist on him serving as prime minister first, followed by Gadi Eisenkot in a rotation.
BRUSSELS — Poland "does not want" allied nuclear weapons stationed on its territory, the country's Deputy Defense Minister Paweł Zalewski said Thursday, despite growing worries of a Russian incursion into NATO territory.
The Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met on Thursday with Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in Tehran to discuss regional developments and the need to de-escalate tensions.
Senegal is heading toward a crucial political test, with local elections expected in January 2027.
MANILA, Philippines — Malacanang on Thursday said it has "no major issues" with Facebook as it cooperates with the government in taking down perceived harmful online contents, including fake news, in its platform when asked to do so.
London, United Kingdom – UK Prime Minister and Labour leader Andy Burnham is expected to soon approve a ban on goods linked to Israeli settlements after the Israeli government issued tenders to build more than 1,200 units for a settlement in the occupied West Bank called E1.
Canada’s minister responsible for trade with the United States said on Thursday that a pledge from a Trump administration official to not challenge Canadian laws around French language and Canadian culture could provide an opening to renew negotiations.
Texas once again cannot enforce its restrictions on some public drag shows after a federal judge on Tuesday declared a 2023 law unconstitutional for the second time.
El presidente de la Reserva Federal Kevin Warsh en la sede de esa institución, el 29 de julio del 2026. (AP foto/Mark Schiefelbein)
Opposition leaders in Zambia have urged the African Union to intervene in the country’s post-election crisis.
The party’s key figures are either unable or unwilling to neatly articulate their migration targets, contradicting one another – and themselves
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a serious problem. Israel is approaching an election in which voters will be asked to judge not only the country’s longest-serving prime minister but the man who was prime minister on October 7.
Burnham has nothing to hide as he prepares to meet president he once called poisonous. It may actually win him more respect
Aston Villa’s head coach Unai Emery stands during the UEFA Super Cup soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Aston Villa in Salzburg, Austria, Wednesday, Aug.12, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
A localized sandstorm or heavy dust cloud sweeps across Diokno Boulevard from the nearby Manila Bay reclamation area, affecting visibility near the Senate building, Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), and the Mall of Asia complex, on Aug. 26, 2026.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia will repatriate 1,476 Myanmar nationals next month in the first phase of a voluntary program, the Home Ministry said on Thursday, as the government moves to address the country’s long-running refugee and undocumented migrant issue.
A Moroccan minister has questioned Spain's sovereignty over the enclave of Ceuta during an official ceremony marking the birth of the Prophet Muhammad.
Naoki Tamura, a former Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. executive, is known as one of the more hawkish members of the BOJ's policy board. (Photo by Yuna Osawa)
Cleveland Federal Reserve President Beth Hammack on Thursday repeated her call for higher interest rates, saying recent inflation data show the central bank is still too far from its goal.
Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general and the District of Columbia filed suit against the U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, challenging a rule that limits who can receive an absentee ballot in the mail.
Tanzania’s governing party expelled the vice president who resigned this week, in an act of retaliation that will further test the credentials of the East African nation as a place of relative peace and stability.
A teacher’s private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal Massachusetts
AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources. As the government pushes their rapid growth, can local communities do anything to push back? Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s global technology reporter Aisha Down abo…
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People protest demanding government to rescue the school children that were recently kidnapped in various part of the country, on the street of Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)
MANILA, Philippines — The Pasig City Government has teamed up with Unilab Foundation Inc. to strengthen primary health care, improve local health financing and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation processes, and expand mental health support for students and communities.
There is "no instruction" to open the Erez Border Crossing for the transfer of goods into the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said in a joint statement released on Thursday afternoon.
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday warned regional parliamentary political parties against unlawful campaign activities for the first Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliamentary elections.
Despite the forthcoming transfer from a state agency, Indian firms are still years away from being able to make advanced missiles
Despite the forthcoming transfer from a state agency, Indian firms are still years away from being able to make advanced missiles
If you believe that Donald Trump is the most dangerous and destructive US president in recent times, if not ever, and that the threats he poses to American democracy, the rule of law, and world peace must be thwarted, is it is essential that Democrats gain control of the House and Senate on November 6.
The departure of foreign coalition troops from Iraq is picking up pace as the September 30 deadline for their withdrawal approaches, a government spokesman said on Thursday.
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
By Joseph Hathaway-Wilson
Turkey is likely to maintain its restraint in responding to Israeli attacks on Syria until after Israel’s general election in October, as Ankara does not want to throw a lifeline to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s struggling election campaign.
Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty holds up a document containing charges against ICE agent Christian Castro during a news conference at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, on Monday, May 18, 2026. (Renée Jones Schneider/Minnesota Star Tribune via AP,File)
From surging debt to trade wars with Canada, self-harm has been the main consequence of Trump’s reckless policy decisions
From surging debt to trade wars with Canada, self-harm has been the main consequence of Trump’s reckless policy decisions
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has described the pressure facing the country as “a full-scale economic war”.
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BRIEFER. Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla during a press conference on January 15, 2026.
Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Schmid said Thursday that inflation is still too high, though he stopped short of calling for an interest rate hike.
Manchester City’s head coach Enzo Maresca greets fans ahead of the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Bournemouth in Manchester, England, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)
Authored by Kevin Villani via Mises Institute,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)
Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’
Forest fires killed 12 people and injured dozens in northeastern Algeria on Wednesday, the interior minister and civil protection authorities said. The tolls rose from earlier local media reports of two deaths and an unspecified number of injuries in coastal Bejaia province, around 300 kilometres (190 miles) from th…
Iraqi authorities have dismantled a drone-manufacturing workshop in Baghdad, a government spokesman announced on Thursday, amid widespread concern over drone attacks by Iran-backed militias.
Most people have never heard of the Barack Obama Elementary School in Richmond, VA, but the story of the school is interesting because it's a reflection of the political madness the US went through over the course of the past decade.