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Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland’s presidential election, results showed Monday, delivering a major blow to the centrist government’s efforts to cement Warsaw’s pro-European orientation. Nawrocki secured 50.89 per cent of the vote, election commission data showed — an outcome that presages more political gridlock as he is likely …
Read More »French President Emmanuel Macron downplays shove in the face from his wife
Brigitte Macron, the wife of France’s president, appeared to push her husband away with both hands on his face just before they disembarked from their plane to start a tour of Southeast Asia this weekend. President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the gesture — caught on camera — as just horseplay, but …
Read More »Trump meets with Syrian president Sharaa, who once fought U.S. troops
U.S. President Donald Trump met with Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the first such encounter between the leaders of those two countries in 25 years. The meeting, on the sidelines of Trump’s get-together with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, marks a major turn …
Read More »Land For Job Scam: Money Laundering Case To Be Filed Against Former Bihar Cm Lalu Yadav, President Approves – Amar Ujala Hindi News Live
जमीन के बदले रेलवे में नौकरी घोटाले में बिहार के पूर्व सीएम लालू प्रसाद यादव की मुश्किलें बढ़ने वाली हैं। राष्ट्रपति द्रौपदी मुर्मू ने जमीन के बदले नौकरी घोटाले के मनी लॉन्ड्रिंग मामले में लालू प्रसाद यादव के खिलाफ मुकदमा चलाने की मंजूरी दे दी है। आधिकारिक सूत्रों ने बताया कि …
Read More »‘What president ever talks like that?’ Biden slams Trump talk of annexing allies like Canada
Joe Biden expressed dismay in his first post-presidential interview over his successor Donald Trump’s statements about acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal, and of Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state. Biden told BBC Radio 4’s Today program in remarks that aired Wednesday that those Trump threats, along with his administration’s diplomatic efforts …
Read More »GM to lay off 700 workers at Oshawa plant, citing U.S. tariffs: union president
General Motors is laying off 700 workers at its Oshawa Assembly plant as it makes changes to shifts due to U.S. tariffs, the president of the union representing workers said Friday. The plant, which employs roughly 3,000 people, is moving from a three-shift to a two-shift operation starting this fall, according …
Read More »Iran president visits injured, calls for probe into port explosion that killed dozens
Iran’s president on Sunday visited those injured in a huge explosion that rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports, a facility purportedly linked to an earlier delivery of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant. The visit by President Masoud Pezeshkian came as the death toll from Saturday’s …
Read More »Moon Jae-in becomes 4th consecutive elected South Korean president to be indicted
South Korean prosecutors indicted former liberal president Moon Jae-in on bribery charges on Thursday, saying that a budget airline gave his son-in-law a lucrative no-show job during Moon’s term in office. Moon’s indictment adds him to a long list of South Korean leaders who have faced trials or scandals at …
Read More »Chinese president engages in charm offensive in Southeast Asia as U.S. tariffs rattle region
The timing couldn’t be better for Chinese President Xi Jinping as he wraps up a tour of three countries in Southeast Asia amid growing tariff pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump. “It’s a very smart move,” said Gil Lan, an associate professor in the law and business department at the Ted …
Read More »China launches military drills around Taiwan, calls its president a ‘parasite’
China staged military drills off Taiwan’s north, south and east coasts on Tuesday as a “stern warning” against separatism and called Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te a “parasite,” as Taiwan sent warships to respond to China’s navy approaching its shores. The exercises, which China has not formally named unlike war games …
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