The leading politician in the United States House of Representatives, Speaker Mike Johnson, has resisted calls to release a report examining allegations against Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be attorney general. The report, led by the House Ethics Committee, examined accusations that Gaetz, 42, had inappropriate sexual relations…
On Thursday, US President-elect Donald Trump nominated vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to head up the country’s top health agency, the Department of Health and Human Services. “I am thrilled to announce Robert F Kennedy Jr as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services [HHS],” Trump wrote…
Lee Jae-myung says he will appeal the court’s decision, which could bar him from running for president in 2027. South Korea’s main opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, has been convicted on charges of violating the country’s election law and handed a one-year suspended prison sentence. The Seoul Central District Court on…
Controversial legislation revises the 184-year-old Treaty of Waitangi granting Maori tribes land rights. Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march towards New Zealand’s capital over a contentious bill redefining the country’s founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people. New Zealand police reported that about 10,000 people…
Sri Lankan president’s National People’s Power wins 62 percent of the vote, early results show. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s leftist coalition is on track for a landslide victory in snap elections, delivering the Marxist-leaning leader a powerful mandate to ease punishing austerity measures in the crisis-stricken nation. With…
Kolkata, India – For the past several years, Manpreet Singh has been dreaming of going abroad for higher studies. The 22-year-old Sikh, a resident of Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh state, chose Canada as his destination as that is where many of the Sikh diaspora is settled. But the current diplomatic…
Washington, DC – This week, it became official. Not only did the Republican Party win control of the United States Senate, but it also maintained leadership over the House of Representatives, after some of the last outstanding races were called. That puts the party and its champion, President-elect Donald Trump, in…
In this case, it’s not satire. InfoWars, the website of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has been purchased by The Onion – a parody outlet – putting an end to the controversial platform that drummed up anti-government paranoia in the United States for a quarter of a century. The auction sale…
Federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to pause their bid to revive the criminal case against the United States President-elect Donald Trump, who was accused of mishandling classified documents after his first term as president ended. Special Counsel Jack Smith, 55, made the request on Wednesday in the US…
New York state’s population could plummet by more than 2 million people by 2050 – a drop of more than 13%, a shocking new study claims. The population is projected to shrink markedly because of lower birth rates and aging and dying residents not being offset by new domestic or…
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