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View image in fullscreenGletsch, SwitzerlandThe melting Rhone glacier. After the extreme heat of June and July, the glacier has lost more than four metres of ice in a single month, according to Matthias Huss, the head of the Swiss Glacier Monitoring NetworkPhotograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image…
From BBC drama The Rapture on the climate crisis to Apple’s Criminal Record on the rise of the far right, culture often sees what politics fails to
The High Court of Justice should temporarily freeze a law separating the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigation Department from the State Attorney’s Office, Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara argued on Monday, warning that it would create a “political prosecution unit” capable of intimidating police officers, inve…
Taking place once every three years, the Labor party conference can be a chance to have open debates on vexed policy issues – but this one was different.
Victoria could face weeks of instability if a contest for the leadership of the Labor party goes ahead
Montenegro will require Russian citizens to obtain visas starting Nov. 1, the small Western Balkan nation’s government announced Monday, as it tightens border rules in line with EU standards to join the bloc by 2028.
The son of jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi says his family and lawyers have been unable to see or contact the 85-year-old for 11 days since he was hospitalised after collapsing in prison.
Spain has two crucial days in front of it to bring wildfires under control before weather conditions worsen, authorities said Monday, as Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called on citizens to "exercise extreme caution" ahead of a new heatwave.
WARSAW — Poland formally asked the U.S. on Monday to arrest and extradite former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, seeking to prosecute the fugitive politician from the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party for alleged abuse of power, diversion of public funds to political allies and spying on opponents.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he would not want to leave office without bringing in "substantial change" to the social care system in England which provides support for older people and working-age adults with disabilities.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told 103FM on Monday that he had ruled out another joint election run with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party, arguing that the two parties appeal to fundamentally different electorates.
Yashar Party leader Gadi Eisenkot is facing criticism from Cypriot politician and member of the European Parliament, Fidias Panayiotou, over a billboard campaign in Cyprus.
He vowed tax cuts, cheaper rice and corruption cases against “big fish”, but critics questioned how his government would fund the pledges
He vowed tax cuts, cheaper rice and corruption cases against “big fish”, but critics questioned how his government would fund the pledges
The head of the center-right New People party on Monday voiced Russians’ growing frustration with the protracted war in Ukraine and government tech bans in a speech on the last day of the State Duma’s current convocation.
Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Berris Ekinci, right, poses for a photo with Philippine Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Leo Herrera-Lim and Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Political-Security Community Dato' Astanah Abdul Aziz on July 22. (Anadolu Agency)
Brent crude drops 9% to below $88 a barrel, prompting UK government bond yields to fall
The UK government should be "embarrassed" that boxing champion Bilal Fawaz does not have a British passport after living in the country for more than 20 years, says his promoter Eddie Hearn.
Both men scheduled to meet Trump at time where US policy towards wars in Iran and Ukraine in state of flux
The Knesset told the High Court of Justice that Israel’s new judicial-selection system should not be struck down simply because the justices may consider the existing system better, arguing that only severe damage to the country’s democratic character could justify invalidating part of a Basic Law.
Treasury has warned the Australian economy could be hit by an inflation spike and slower growth through the second half of the year as America’s war against Iran, Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, and Ukraine’s assault on Russian oil refineries upend the global petroleum market.
Absent since 1900, and as the Games seek a younger and broader audience, it may be the most valuable sport added to the programme in decades
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Kim Yo-jong says Asean’s call for denuclearisation has ‘distorted the essence of the situation in the Korean peninsula’
Kim Yo-jong says Asean’s call for denuclearisation has ‘distorted the essence of the situation in the Korean peninsula’
Alternative für Deutschland, topping polls ahead of state elections, accuses government of failing to tackle Islamist radicalism
Months after the United Nations Security Council backed a comprehensive framework to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Israel’s security cabinet has approved a highly constrained pilot project to allow foreign security forces into a narrow pocket of the devastated territory.
Bahrain cannot claim state immunity to block a lawsuit brought in Britain by two dissidents who say its government hacked their laptops with spyware, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court ruled by a majority on Monday.
When Jimmy Carter occupied the White House, Menachem Begin was the prime minister of Israel. Carter viewed the world through a deeply religious and, at times, naïve lens.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed from Israel on Monday afternoon for talks with US President Donald Trump in Washington, where they are expected to discuss the situation with Iran, among several other issues, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed.
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The nation’s sprawling suburbs of single-storey homes would be transformed under a plan from the Productivity Commission to make the property market affordable, with three-storey developments allowed everywhere and high-rise apartment blocks built near train, tram and bus stations.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his fifth state of the nation address, at the House of Representatives in Quezon City, Metro Manila, on Monday. © Reuters
Israeli opposition leader and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that he “will not allow a Palestinian state to be established”, even at the cost of normalisation with Saudi Arabia.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has departed for Washington DC, where he is due to meet US President Donald Trump, according to an official statement posted on an Israeli state social media account.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a news conference at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on July 27. (Photo by Takashi Miyazaki)
SONA. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr delivers his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) as Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian and House Speaker Faustino Dy listen, at the House of Representatives on July 27, 2026.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walks outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, after testifying before U.S. House lawmakers as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026, in Chappaqua, N.Y. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
Claims that Malaysia’s ban on Israelis entering the country are antisemitic are unlikely to trigger a major policy shift, analysts say
Claims that Malaysia’s ban on Israelis entering the country are antisemitic are unlikely to trigger a major policy shift, analysts say
A Seoul court convicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol of election law violations Monday, putting the main opposition party at risk of returning nearly 40 billion won ($27.3 million) that was reimbursed in campaign expenses for the 2022 presidential election.
The sign for the office of the 13th Congressional District of Georgia in the Cannon House Office Building is photographed July 20, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Tallulah Brown Van Zee)
Markets enter this week's Federal Reserve meeting uncertain over how the US central bank will react to surging oil prices on heightened escalations in the Iran war.
Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends the 27th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Plus Three Ministers’ Meeting in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines Thursday, July 23, 2026. (Jam Sta Rosa/Pool Photo via AP)
The remains of Shimon and Rivka Herzl, the grandparents of modern political Zionism’s founder, Theodor Herzl, are being brought from Belgrade, Serbia, to be reinterred beside his grave on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in the coming days.
The US Senate is due to begin voting as early as Monday on the nomination of Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton, US President Donald Trump's pick to be the top US spy, and he is expected to be approved within days despite a tense confirmation hearing.
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The UK’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, came under fire recently from the Shadow Justice Secretary, Nick Timothy, in response to the appointment of Andy Slaughter, an MP fiercely critical of Israel with a long record of pro-Palestine activism, as the new Solicitor General. Timothy described it as an “absolute dis…
The vast majority of religious Zionists favor dialogue leading to social consensus over parliamentary or legal processes to solve Israel’s social issues, a Tzohar poll held during Tuesday’s annual conference revealed.