British PM Sunak says he expects general election in second half of 2024 | Elections News

British PM Sunak says he expects general election in second half of 2024 | Elections News

Rishi Sunak says it is a ‘working assumption’ that the vote will be held in the second half of the year. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said it is his “working assumption” that a general election will be called for during the second half of 2024. “My working assumption…

Israel’s long history of assassination attempts in Lebanon | Israel War on Gaza News

Israel’s long history of assassination attempts in Lebanon | Israel War on Gaza News

A drone strike on the southern Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh this week killed several Hamas leaders including Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy leader of the group’s political wing and founder of the military wing, Qassam Brigades. The move represents a major regional escalation in Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed…

Jeffrey Epstein list: Whose names are on the newly unsealed documents? | Courts News

Jeffrey Epstein list: Whose names are on the newly unsealed documents? | Courts News

About 950 pages of court documents identifying associates of financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made public on Wednesday. What is the Jeffrey Epstein list? Included in the unsealed papers are the names of about 150 Epstein associates. The documents were filed as part of Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation…

How will hundreds of thousands in Gaza survive this winter? | TV Shows

How will hundreds of thousands in Gaza survive this winter? | TV Shows

With hundreds of thousands displaced, winter weather in Gaza is exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis. People carrying the bodies of loved ones through floodwaters, children drenched and barefoot, families huddled around campfires struggling to stay warm. These are just some of the sights we’re seeing in Gaza this winter….

Ambiguous Ethiopia port deal fuels uncertainty over Somaliland statehood | Features

Ambiguous Ethiopia port deal fuels uncertainty over Somaliland statehood | Features

On Monday, an agreement signed in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Muse Bihi Abdi of the breakaway republic of Somaliland preceded a shocking announcement that has already set the tone for interstate relations in the Horn of Africa this year. The memorandum of…

US to send top diplomats to Middle East as regional tensions spread | Israel War on Gaza News

US to send top diplomats to Middle East as regional tensions spread | Israel War on Gaza News

US Secretary of State Blinken due to visit as Israel’s war on Gaza widens to Lebanon and threatens to engulf region. The United States is to engage in a renewed diplomatic push to calm tensions in the Middle East as the region teeters on the brink of a regional conflagration…

Myanmar military government pardons more than 9,000 prisoners | Prison News

Myanmar military government pardons more than 9,000 prisoners | Prison News

Annual amnesty marking Independence Day takes place during crisis in the north that poses threat to military rulers. Myanmar’s military government has pardoned more than 9,000 prisoners, including 114 foreign nationals, to mark the country’s Independence Day. Friends and families of prisoners gathered outside the high-security Insein Prison in the…

Confusion, speculation in Iran after twin blasts kill more than 80 people | News

Confusion, speculation in Iran after twin blasts kill more than 80 people | News

Iranians mark day of mourning after bombings kill at least 84 people, leave more than 280 wounded. Iranians have been marking a day of mourning after twin bombings in the city of Kerman killed and wounded many people at a memorial for top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani four years since…

Bangladesh elections mark a pro-China tipping point in South Asia | Politics

Bangladesh elections mark a pro-China tipping point in South Asia | Politics

The year 2024 will witness key elections to choose democratic governments across the world, and the season begins with the Bangladesh election on January 7. Altogether, 29 political parties, including the governing Awami League (AL) and a faction of the opposition Jatiya Party, will fight the elections. With almost all the…