Four days after winning his first elected office and leading the Liberal Party as it held onto power, Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out a timetable and a broad legislative agenda for his new government. At a news conference on Friday, Mr. Carney’s big announcement was that he would head to Washington on Tuesday to…
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Like the last time Singapore held elections, it is in the throes of a global crisis. Five years ago, the governing party portrayed itself as the steady hand to guide the nation through the coronavirus pandemic. The pitch is the same this time, as President Trump upends the world’s trade order. And, like last time,…
Voters in Australia head to the polls on Saturday, the third major U.S. ally after Germany and Canada to hold elections in a global economic and political landscape upended by the second Trump administration. The two men vying to lead Australia — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the center-left Labor Party, and opposition leader Peter…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease “epidemic” would be a cornerstone of his Make America Healthy Again agenda, often invoking alarming statistics as an urgent reason for reforming public health in this country. On Friday, President Trump released a proposed budget that called for cutting the…
President Trump’s budget proposal would shrink the Education Department, which he has called on Congress to eliminate, by slashing its funding by 15 percent, or $12 billion. The most significant chunk of that reduction, about $4.5 billion, would come from the Title I budget for high-poverty schools, a cut of nearly 25 percent at a…
Germany’s domestic intelligence service has classified the far-right Alternative for Germany, which some polls show as the most popular in the country, as an extremist party, the German authorities announced on Friday. The classification, which allows the agency to use more powerful surveillance tools to monitor the party and its leadership, is certain to inflame…
Nigel Farage’s insurgent anti-immigration party, Reform U.K., scored a significant, if narrow, victory Friday in a parliamentary special election in the northwest of England, serving notice that Mr. Farage, a populist fixture and close ally of President Trump, is again a rising force in British politics. Reform’s candidate, Sarah Pochin, won by a razor-thin margin…
A Kenyan lawmaker was gunned down on a busy Nairobi street by a motorcycle-riding assassin on Wednesday evening, in what the police described as a “targeted and premeditated” attack. The lawmaker, Charles Were, who was serving a second term in Parliament, was in a vehicle stopped at a traffic light when he was killed, the…
Several years before Donald J. Trump entered politics, Apple and its partners built massive factories across China to assemble iPhones. Mr. Trump first campaigned for president by promising his supporters that he would force Apple to make those products in America. Nearly a decade later, little has changed. Instead of bringing its manufacturing home, Apple…