SEOUL: South Koreans will elect a new president on Tuesday to cap six months of turmoil triggered by a shock martial law briefly imposed by former leader Yoon Suk Yeol that marred the country’s reputation as a vibrant, if at times chaotic, democracy. The new leader will face the challenge of rallying a society deeply…
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…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday strongly objected to Congress‘ “Gayab” jibe which accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not taking responsibility for the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 lives.This follows after Congress shared a poster featuring the word ‘Gayab’ (missing) placed over an image of a kurta, pyjama, and black footwear. The outfit appears…
LUCKNOW: BJP ally RLD voted in support of the Waqf Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, but has been muted in public about its stand on the issue. RLD functionaries said the party has not been vocal as it wants to avoid angering any specific community or group that constitutes a voter base…
The Senate on Wednesday approved a measure that would block some of the tariffs President Trump has imposed on Canada, with a handful of Republicans joining Democrats to pass a resolution that would halt levies set to take effect this week. The measure is all but certain to stall in the House, where G.O.P. leaders…
With Greenland thrust into the spotlight by President Trump’s insistence that the United States will “get” the remote island at the top of the world, its parliamentary election on Tuesday took on unusual importance — not just for the outside world, but for Greenlanders. Voter turnout was at its highest in 12 years, so much…
A showdown over Ukraine between the United States and its longtime European allies played out in the United Nations on Monday, as the United States opposed an effort to condemn Russian aggression and call for the immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. After losing a vote on Ukraine in the U.N. General Assembly, the…
Now that the votes are cast, the real work in Berlin can begin. While reconstituting parliament is relatively easy and must be done in the next three weeks, no party is expected to get enough votes to govern alone and outright. That means Germany is likely headed for a coalition government — and the process…
Follow live updates on the 2025 Germany election. When German voters go to the polls on Sunday, the fate of companies like SKW Piesteritz will be at the top of their minds. The chemical factory halved its annual Christmas bonus for workers last year, and it just shut down one of its two ammonia plants….
NEW DELHI: The fate of three major political players and 699 candidates is now sealed with over 60.42% (data updated at 11:30 pm) of the 1.56 crore voters of Delhi coming out to cast their votes on Wednesday for electing their representatives for the 70-member assembly in the capital.The voter turnout this year is the…