BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party wrapped up its twice-a-decade congress on Saturday, cementing Xi Jinping’s iron grip on power and revealing a new Central Committee missing two key officials lacking close ties to the leader.
(Reuters) – Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy’s first woman prime minister on Saturday alongside her cabinet team, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War Two.
(Reuters) – Boris Johnson returned to Britain from holiday on Saturday to consider an audacious bid for a second term as prime minister in a race that could pit him against his former finance minister whose resignation in July helped drive him out of office.
(Reuters) – More than a dozen Russian missiles pounded energy facilities and other infrastructure across Ukraine on Saturday, the Ukrainian air force said, with strikes causing blackouts in parts of different regions.
BERLIN/DUBAI, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people marched in Berlin today in a show of support for protesters in Iran where unrest ignited by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody entered a sixth week despite a deadly state crackdown.
ROME, (Reuters) – Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy’s first woman prime minister on Saturday alongside her cabinet team, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War Two.
MASERU, (Reuters) – Voting authorities in Lesotho have said they incorrectly allocated parliamentary seats after an Oct.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese former President Hu Jintao was unexpectedly escorted out of the closing ceremony of a congress of the ruling Communist Party today.
FRONTLINE NORTH OF KHERSON, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to warn Russia not to blow up a dam that would flood a large area of southern Ukraine, as his forces prepared to push Moscow’s troops from the occupied city of Kherson.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Boris Johnson has been gaining momentum in his audacious bid to return as British prime minister, with his colleagues deeply divided over the potential comeback and some warning he would plunge the country into fresh chaos.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump was ordered yesterday to testify under oath and provide documents to the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday urged the United States and Venezuela to restore relations, saying an agreement may be on the horizon as he pressed the United States to allow more Venezuelans to enter.
DUBAI,1 (Reuters) – Protests broke out in restive southeastern Iran yesterday, with demonstrators attacking banks, state media reported, as a senior hardline cleric called for tough measures against demonstrators across the country.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Three senior ministers today threw their weight behind Boris Johnson to return as British prime minister, after Liz Truss’s resignation triggered a contest to quickly replace her as Conservative Party leader.
(Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council approved sanctions today including an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo on anyone who threatens the peace or stability of Haiti, imposing the measures on the Caribbean state’s most powerful gang leader.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was barred from holding public office today after the top election tribunal found him guilty of unlawfully selling gifts from foreign dignitaries and heads of state, a lawyer and a minister said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Liz Truss quit yesterday after the shortest, most chaotic tenure of any British prime minister, forced out after her economic programme shattered the country’s reputation for financial stability and left many people poorer.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Washington said yesterday it believed Iranian military staff had been deployed in Crimea to provide assistance to Russian forces using Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine, as the West slapped sanctions on Tehran in response.
(Reuters) – Kevin Spacey yesterday defeated a sexual abuse case against him after jurors in a Manhattan civil trial found his accuser didn’t prove his claim that the Oscar winner made an unwanted sexual advance on him when he was 14.
About 50 people were killed and nearly 300 injured in violence that broke out in Chad yesterday as hundreds took to the streets to demand a quicker transition to democratic rule.
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