International

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   ST JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda – The 2026 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) opened in Antigua and Barbuda on November 3, with leaders calling for stronger partnerships between governments and businesses to drive economic growth and prosperity for the Commonwealth’s 2.7 billion people. His Majesty King Charles III, Head of the Commonwealth, joined leaders at the ...

Student and teacher groups in France have called for a strike on Tuesday as they keep up pressure on the government for more education spending, continuing weeks of school closures and protests. A joint statement Saturday by unions covering the teacher and student associations said their movement “is in a position of strength (and) the government in a position of ...

Democratic candidate Reverend Adam Hamilton achieved a historic victory in the Kansas Senate election on Tuesday (November 3), defeating incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall to secure a seat no Democrat has won since 1932. The victory marks the first time in 96 years—since the Great Depression era—that a Democratic candidate has won a US Senate seat in Kansas. The last ...

Following their success in the Senate, opposition Democratic Party candidates are on track to secure control of the House of Representatives with one of the largest majorities seen in nearly two decades, according to US media reports including The New York Times and political analysts. Analysts attribute the election outcome to a strong voter rebuke against President Donald Trump and ...

Voting has begun in several states along the US East Coast in the country’s midterm elections. Polling stations officially opened at 6:00 AM local time in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maine and Kentucky. Voting started an hour earlier in Vermont. Meanwhile, polling stations in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia were scheduled to open at 6:30 AM local time. ...

US President Donald Trump has vowed to end the ongoing war with Iran “very soon, by any means”, warning that Tehran must reach an agreement or Washington will end the conflict through military action. In an interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), Trump said, the war could end “perhaps the easy way”. Meanwhile, the conflict has taken a new ...

Thousands protested in Delhi on Sunday to demand the resignation of India’s election chief over a revision of voter lists, the latest in more than a month of opposition demonstrations challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Led by Rahul Gandhi, a leader of the opposition Congress Party, Sunday’s protesters say the revision benefits Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. The protests ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party on Thursday amplified unsubstantiated allegations that Arab-led parties had “stolen” the election, potentially with foreign assistance, as final results showed his bloc had lost its majority in parliament. The opposition accused Netanyahu of demonizing the Arab population after a historic showing by Arab-led parties in an attempt to delegitimize the election. If the rest ...

Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pulled off a dramatic comeback on Sunday as he clinched a re-election victory, but his rival Flavio Bolsonaro refused to accept the loss and said he would seek to annul the vote. With Lula’s victory, Brazil staved off a conservative wave that has seen numerous countries — such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, ...

Clashes erupted across France on Saturday as protesters took to the streets, a week after marches that degenerated into violence and prompted a firm security backlash from President Emmanuel Macron, who is scrambling to restore order. Police arrested nearly 1,000 people as officers faced “an extremely elevated level of violence” from black-clad “ultra-left” extremists, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said. Riot ...