South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday that Seoul would not deploy military assets to the Middle East in a way that could draw the country into war, while acknowledging
Catherine Connolly (born 1957) only became involved in active politics in 1999. Michael D. Higgins, the outgoing president of Ireland (2011-2025), encouraged Connolly to join the Labour Party and stand for election.
More
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have taken a major step toward deeper regional integration with the signing of the upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) 3.0 Upgrade Protocol,
More
France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron has once again found herself at the centre of a wave of online rumours questioning her gender – a conspiracy theory that began circulating shortly after Emmanuel
More
Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc., and ByteDance’s TikTok have announced they will comply with Australia’s upcoming social-media ban for users under 16, setting aside prior objections just weeks before the law comes
More
Legislators from multiple parties in Taiwan have submitted proposed amendments to the National Security Act aimed at preventing potential Chinese infiltration and safeguarding the nation’s democratic institutions, according to the Taipei Times.
More
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hailed U.S. President Donald Trump for his “historic contributions to global peace” during their first in-person meeting on Tuesday, signaling her intent to strengthen ties with Washington
More
In a historic move that signals a shift toward youth representation, Nepal’s interim government has appointed 28-year-old Bablu Gupta as Minister of Youth and Sports, the youngest minister in the nation’s history.
More
More than 200,000 people filled Piazza San Giovanni on Saturday in a powerful show of solidarity led by Italy’s largest trade union, the CGIL, calling for a nation built on fair work,
More
The United Nations Human Rights Office has reported alarming accounts of summary executions and other grave violations committed by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) amid their recent territorial gains in El Fasher,
More
Italy’s most infamous political assassination has resurfaced, shaking both the justice system and the nation’s conscience. As reported by Times UK, prosecutors have reopened the 1980 murder case of Piersanti Mattarella —
More
Argentinian President Javier Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, pulled off a surprising triumph in Sunday’s legislative elections, winning 40.84 percent of votes for Congress compared with 31.64 percent for the opposition Peronist
More
Venezuela on Sunday condemned what it described as a military provocation by neighboring Trinidad and Tobago, coordinated with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, aimed at sparking a full-scale confrontation with the Latin
More
India is intensifying financial sector reforms to stabilize foreign investment and bolster capital buffers amid nearly $17 billion in outflows so far this year, Reuters reports. The measures aim to ease access
More
China’s industrial profits rose for a second straight month in September, giving officials a measure of optimism that the world’s second-largest economy may be stabilizing despite weak domestic demand and trade uncertainties.
More
Discussions between South Korea and the United States over a $350 billion (approximately 500 trillion Korean won) investment package—the centerpiece of ongoing trade negotiations—remain at an impasse, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung
More