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About 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan are barred from secondary school, the United Nations cultural agency has said, renewing its call on the Taliban government to lift restrictions on female education.
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Former prime minister John Howard has warned against an alliance between the Coalition and One Nation, as the Liberal Party’s campaign chief urges downbeat MPs to play the long game in countering Pauline Hanson.
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband pressed Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar over humanitarian aid to Gaza and violence in the West Bank during their first phone call on Tuesday, while the two also discussed Hamas's disarmament, Iran and antisemitism, according to a statement issued by Miliband.
Wisconsin sent prediction market platforms spinning last month when its election commission released a directive reminding voters that betting on elections — including via trades on event contract exchanges — is illegal in the state, based on a more than 175-year-old law.
Türkiye's President, the Saudi Crown Prince and Pakistan's Prime Minister signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca. (Reuters: Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Turkish Presidential Press Office)
An important inflation report Wednesday could give the Federal Reserve a little breathing room in its battle against inflation.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating how a North Korean remote information technology (IT) worker got a job at a U.S. federal agency, a report said Tuesday, underscoring the growing risks posed by Pyongyang's IT worker scheme to the U.S. government sector.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried New York City's pied-à-terre tax and said he is exploring whether the federal government "has any legal right to avert this disaster, before it is too late."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised high-tech entrepreneur Oren Dobronsky, who holds the first reserved slot in Likud, that he would be appointed as the minister responsible for artificial intelligence (AI) if Netanyahu forms the next government, Walla learned on Tuesday.
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The US midterm elections are months away, and Republican politicians appear to be leaning into a tried-and-true method of whipping up support in their base: Islamophobia.
"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough went absolutely nuclear on elected Democrats Monday morning for refusing to denounce the party's rising far-left wing. He specifically cited far-left types such as Hasan Piker, a self-described Marxist who is the unofficial spokesman for the Democratic Socialists of America. Some D…
The United Nations is urging an end to the ‘discriminatory’ Taliban policy that prevents girls from studying beyond primary school
The United Nations is urging an end to the ‘discriminatory’ Taliban policy that prevents girls from studying beyond primary school
Hiroshi Okuda also advised the Japanese government and represented Japan's business community. (Photo by Hiromasa Matsuura)
Former Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan announced on Tuesday that the new right-wing party he heads will be called the Unity Party, unveiling the name during an event in Beit Shemesh marking MK Aliza Bloch's joining the party.
The new government in Damascus has tried to press Moscow to return to Syria the former longtime President Bashar al-Assad. He's reportedly lived in a posh area of the Russian capital, under heavy security, since he was ousted in December 2024 and forced to flee.
Os jovens seguem representando uma parcela historicamente pequena da população da Alemanha. No fim de 2025, cerca de 8,3 milhões de pessoas tinham entre 15 e 24 anos, o equivalente a 10% da população do país, segundo o Departamento Federal de Estatística (Destatis). A participação dessa faixa etária vem caindo desde…
By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
The Federal Communications Commission on 28 July announced a ban on humanoid robots from China including the popular Unitree G1 model. The Guardian's technology journalist Nick Robins-Early explains the recent popularity of these trending robots and why the US government says they are a risk to the country's nationa…
The United States Court of International Trade, center, is seen in front of the Jacob K. Javits Federal building, March 18, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
TOKYO — Grand foreign-policy strategies rarely disappear overnight. More often, they are dismantled gradually through subtle rhetorical shifts, bureaucratic adjustments, and changing diplomatic priorities. America’s Indo-Pacific strategy is no exception.
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Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued two secret arrest warrants last year for senior members of the Taliban for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender and political grounds, Middle East Eye can reveal.
Hungary’s parliament has confirmed Andras Baka, a former Supreme Court chief and critic of former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as the country’s next president.
In his first few weeks in Downing Street, Andy Burnham could hardly have been clearer that his aim as prime minister is to make people feel better.
Iran’s political landscape appears to have entered a new phase as two competing camps emerge: those advocating a deal with the United States and those determined to block any agreement.
A Chinese citizen pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to attempting to smuggle US military hardware to China in violation of the US Arms Export Control Act, according to the US Justice Department (DOJ) on Monday.
Protesters hold cardboard figures with ropes round their necks during a rally against the death penalty in Beirut, Lebanon in October 2013.
Lebanon’s parliament has passed a law to abolish capital punishment, making it the first country in the Middle East to do so.
A voter at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing during the February lower house election in Japan. (Photo by Yukio Tajima)
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, 65 civil society organisations are urging President Félix Tshisekedi to abandon plans for a constitutional referendum.
Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan will support Pauline Hanson’s migration bill despite vowing to fight her rightwing party
Iran’s political landscape appears to have entered a new phase as two competing camps emerge: those advocating a deal with the United States and those determined to block any agreement.
ARCHIVO – Los árboles bordean el río Oiapoque en la frontera entre Brasil y la Guyana Francesa, en Oiapoque, estado Amapa, Brasil, el 10 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Eraldo Peres, Archivo)
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Progressives and moderates will face off again in Tuesday's Democratic primary elections in Wisconsin and Minnesota as the party decides whether to lurch further to the left or chart toward the middle after crushing losses to Republicans in 2024.
Andras Baka, sole candidate of the Tisza Party for President of the Republic of Hungary and former President of the Supreme Court, center, arrives for the presidential election during the extraordinary plenary session of the Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug.11, 2026. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)
The High Court of Justice sharply criticized the Knesset on Tuesday for failing to provide dedicated polling stations in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities for the upcoming election, but appeared reluctant to impose through a court ruling an arrangement lawmakers had chosen not to enact.
Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory in last week’s Democratic Senate primary in Michigan represents more than another local election. El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens by less than one percentage point after outside groups supporting her spent more than $60 million, including more than $30 million from the American I…
The Likud Party's secretariat was set to vote Tuesday on approving reserved slots on the party’s Knesset slate for three ministers selected by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the elections.
The Coalition wants to bring migration down to its lowest level since the Global Financial Crisis, and is preparing to argue that visas for students, graduates and backpackers must be cut so that housing construction can keep pace with inflows of new arrivals.
Former supreme court chief Andras Baka had been fired during ex-leader Orban’s time in power
Former supreme court chief Andras Baka had been fired during ex-leader Orban’s time in power
President Trump has chosen Dennis Kirk, a co-author of the right-wing road map known as Project 2025, as inspector general for the Interior Department, a role that would oversee any review of the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Its parliament passes a historic law replacing capital punishment with life imprisonment despite opposition from Hezbollah
Its parliament passes a historic law replacing capital punishment with life imprisonment despite opposition from Hezbollah