Islamabad, Pakistan – After fending off protests from the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, the Pakistani government now faces a new challenge – a potential agitation led by Fazal-ur-Rehman, leader of the religious Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) party. Rehman, a veteran politician and part of the ruling coalition that governed Pakistan from April 2022 to August…
Venezuela’s government has taken steps to release some arrested in post-election crackdown but continues to pressure opposition. The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has released 103 people imprisoned following the country’s contested July election, which the opposition accused Maduro of stealing. The citizen security service, headed by Minister Diosdado Cabello, announced the prisoner release…
Opposition forces took Damascus early on Sunday, ending the al-Assad family’s 50-year reign in a surprise offensive that reached the capital in only 12 days. The offensive began on November 27, when opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched an assault from their base in the Idlib governorate in northwestern Syria and then…
Ricardo Bonilla is the second finance minister to depart Petro’s government, which faces legislative hurdles and probes. A key member of President Gustavo Petro’s government in Colombia has resigned, amid the latest corruption scandal to rock the administration. Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla stepped down from his office on Wednesday, though he remained defiant in the…
NewsFeed Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich told a settler lobbying group that it is “necessary to occupy the Gaza Strip,” adding that there will be “voluntary migration” from Gaza. Published On 26 Nov 202426 Nov 2024 Source link
Yamandu Orsi, the candidate for the left-wing Broad Front coalition, is projected to emerge victorious in Uruguay’s run-off election for the presidency. He bested Alvaro Delgado of the ruling National Party to win the tightly fought race, though public opinion polls showed the two candidates in a dead heat in the lead-up to Sunday’s vote….
Chinese President Xi Jinping has held his final meeting with his outgoing counterpart in the United States, Democrat Joe Biden. But Xi’s words on Saturday seemed directed not simply at Biden but at his Republican successor, returning President Donald Trump. In his encounter with Biden on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in…
