ANKARA (AA) – The Indian parliament has disqualified Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader of India’s main opposition Congress party, a day after a local court in the western Indian state of Gujarat convicted Gandhi in the criminal defamation case against India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A notification issued by the Lok Sabha, or lowe...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Australia has revealed the question to voters for a national referendum scheduled later this year to decide whether to recognize Indigenous people. Australians are to vote, “yes” or “no” on whether they approve a proposed law to “alter the Constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least four Israeli protesters were arrested on Thursday as thousands rallied against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan, local media reported. Israel has seen mass protests over the past 12 weeks against the government’s judicial reform plan, seen by the opposition as an attempt to redu...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said that the military will not take part in politics in the future. “We are establishing an army that will not participate in politics in the future,” al-Burhan said in a televised speech. “There is no military personnel staging a coup, it is […...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the head of the Tripoli-based government, on Tuesday discussed the latest political developments in Libya with US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf. The discussions also dwelt on the importance of rallying local and international efforts for holding the country’s stall...
Astana, Kazakhstan (AFP): Kazakhstan held snap parliamentary elections Sunday as the leader of the Central Asian country pushes political reforms that critics say are designed to consolidate power one year after deadly protests. Polling stations opened at 7:00 am (0100 GMT), according to AFP reporters in the capital Astana and Almaty, Kazakhst...
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Nigerians were voting in local elections Saturday, just weeks after the ruling party won a presidential poll that the two main opposition parties alleged was marred by fraud. Africa’s most populous nation is electing hundreds of state assembly lawmakers and over two dozens governors, with a particularly competitive ...
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – Local police raided former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s residence in the northeastern city of Lahore on Saturday while he was on his way to the capital Islamabad to appear in court. Police detained dozens of members of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. Authorities, supported by heavy p...
Tel Aviv, Israel (AFP): Israeli protesters returned to the streets on Thursday to rally against proposed judicial reforms, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a compromise plan touted by the country’s president. The reforms, several provisions of which have already been adopted by parliament, are “the end of democracy,...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A local court on Thursday extended the suspension of a police operation to arrest former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on a judicial order in the northeastern city of Lahore for another day, according to local media. Justice Tariq Saleem Shaikh of the Lahore High Court ordered the government and security […...
