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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
In the wake of a spate of cyberattacks against municipal water systems in multiple US states, suspected to have been perpetrated by Iran, US officials are pushing to pass legislation aimed at fixing security gaps that leave the infrastructure vulnerable to hacks.
The United States and Iran are nearing an agreement, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Bloomberg News in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has broken ranks with the EU’s push for solidarity with Spain after the Ceuta crisis, calling Madrid’s migrant amnesty a “very bad idea” that risks a repeat of Europe’s 2015 influx. He warned that Spain’s potential legalization of more than a million people creates a loophole f…
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has broken ranks with the EU’s push for solidarity with Spain after the Ceuta crisis, calling Madrid’s migrant amnesty a “very bad idea” that risks a repeat of Europe’s 2015 influx. He warned that Spain’s potential legalization of more than a million people creates a loophole f…
A rocket attack hit a training camp for the Iranian Kurdish opposition northeast of the Iraqi city of Erbil on Tuesday, reported Reuters citing security sources.
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
The US and Iran are close to "some sort of an arrangement", Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told Bloomberg.
Measures tied to alleged forced labour carry litigation risk, as localisation and procurement rules now weigh on Chinese firms, reports say
Measures tied to alleged forced labour carry litigation risk, as localisation and procurement rules now weigh on Chinese firms, reports say
MANILA, Philippines — Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko" Moreno Domagoso on Tuesday released terminal leave benefits totaling over P173 million to retired city government workers, clearing the backlog.
UAE private-sector employees received more than Dh830 million ($226 million) from government protection schemes in the first half of 2026.
US equity futures were trading near session lows with bond yields at August highs of 4.74% and Brent rising above $90 for the first time in two weeks when - with just hours until the market open - we had the now standard double-whammy of well-timed "imminent deal optimism" thanks first to the Qatar foreign ministry,…
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MANILA, Philippines — Election lawyer Romulo Macalintal has committed to challenge what he described as an “attempt” to delay Filipinos’ right to suffrage as he criticized recent proposals to extend the terms of barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (BSK) officials, which would effectively postpone the elections schedul…
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Yonhap) -- Former and incumbent executives of the Unification Church were indicted for allegedly donating illegal funds to politicians through their nationwide networks, officials said Tuesday.
Andy Burnham says he is "confident" PC Andrew Harper's killers can be excluded from the government's early release scheme, as outcry over the case grows.
Authored by Kaizen Asiedu of Clear Thinker Academy,
She was hit with a ‘grave threats’ charge in an ongoing Senate impeachment trial over an alleged assassination plot against the president
She was hit with a ‘grave threats’ charge in an ongoing Senate impeachment trial over an alleged assassination plot against the president
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) reaffirmed its commitment in protecting the data privacy of voters through the first-ever Data Privacy Handbook to prevent another “Comeleak” incident.
A rocket attack hit a training camp for the Iranian-Kurdish opposition northeast of the Iraqi city of Erbil on Tuesday, said security sources who blamed Iran for the assault.
Tigray rebel authorities have accused Ethiopia’s federal government of carrying out deadly drone strikes in the region, raising fears of a renewed conflict nearly four years after a peace deal ended a devastating two-year war.
Commerce chief Algernon Yau calls launch of Economic and Trade Office in Kuala Lumpur ‘highly strategic move’
Commerce chief Algernon Yau calls launch of Economic and Trade Office in Kuala Lumpur ‘highly strategic move’
Authored by Sasha Stone via SashaStone.com,
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Yonhap) -- The election to fill the vacant top position at the national football federation will likely be held before the end of this year in an expanded format, officials said Tuesday.
Zambians head to the polls on Thursday in the country's eighth general election since the return to multiparty democracy in 1991, with the economy emerging as the defining issue for voters.
Iran lost about 95 million cubic metres of gas production due to infrastructure damage caused by its war with the US and Israel, Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said on Tuesday.
The Lebanese parliament approved the abolition of the death penalty on Tuesday, making it the first Middle East country to end capital punishment.
A leading Israeli advocacy group has accused the government of pursuing the undeclared annexation of the occupied West Bank through coordinated measures that undermine the Oslo Accords.
Two advisers have links to a venture fund co-investing in US defense companies that benefit from federal spending
The next Korea Football Association presidential election, contested by an electorate expanded to about 20,000 voters, will likely be held within this year.
Republicans in South Carolina will head to the polls on Tuesday to decide who will replace the late Senator Lindsey Graham in the race to represent the state in the United States Senate.
This is a locator map for Lebanon with its capital, Beirut. (AP Photo)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, center-left; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, center; and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, fifth from right, perform a Friday Prayer at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on Aug. 7. (Photo from Saudi Press Agency's X post)
Footage from 10 August shows collapsed buildings and ambulances as residents make their way through areas closed off by authorities. One of the side towers of the city’s neo-Gothic Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary was also brought down by the force of the tremor, sending debris into the surrounding stree…
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Democratic socialist is frontrunner in four-way race to face Republican Tom Tiffany in test of anti-establishment mood
The campaign targets ‘covert’ crimes that have spread online, from ‘soft violence’ to sexual extortion