3 d. ago New French prime minister steps down hours after cabinet announced

The Day French Politics Tilted: A Cabinet Named, a Prime Minister Gone It began like a political movie with an abrupt, breathless cut: a freshly minted cabinet unveiled after weeks of talks, ministers posed for photographs under palace lights — and then, within hours, the man who assembled it had handed in his resignation. For […]

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5 d. ago Georgian prime minister pledges sweeping crackdown after allegedly foiled coup

A City on Edge: Tbilisi’s Square Became a Mirror The air in Tbilisi on election day tasted metallic — not from the coffee or the sulfur baths, but from tear gas. It clung to clothes, to the crisp autumn sky, and to the conversations that had been building for a year. For a country that […]

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6 d. ago Nationalist Sanae Takaichi Poised to Become Japan’s First Woman Prime Minister

When the old guard crowned a new face: Japan at a crossroads On an autumn evening in Tokyo, the fluorescent lights of the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters hummed like a city that never quite sleeps. Supporters and staffers clustered around television screens, phones pressed to ears, eyes tracking the number that would decide the direction […]

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7 d. ago Imminent elections could decide the fate of the UK prime minister

The hall smells of coffee and caution: inside Labour’s conference crossroads Walking into the exhibition hall at the Labour conference last Sunday felt like stepping into a living, breathing organism—one that had swollen with triumph in 2024 and now breathed a little faster, unsure if it was still on the mend. There was a certain […]

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1 week ago Trump unveils Gaza peace plan, Netanyahu publicly endorses it

Beyond the podium: a White House peace pitch and the voices it could not quiet It was a sharp, staged moment on the White House lawn—a photograph meant to show resolve: U.S. President Donald Trump standing shoulder to shoulder with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, each smiling into lenses while the world watched for a […]

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2 w. ago Israeli PM criticizes countries for recognizing Palestinian state

When the UN Hall Held Its Breath: A Moment of Fracture and the Weight of Memory The United Nations General Assembly, a place where diplomatic ritual often softens into ritualized rhetoric, erupted this week into raw politics and rawer grief. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu climbed the rostrum, scores of delegates rose and filed […]

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3 w. ago Trump contradicts UK prime minister over recognition of Palestinian statehood

When Two Allies Disagree: A Day of Handshakes, Headlines and a Foreign Policy Crossroads It was a crisp Buckinghamshire morning when Marine One cut the sky above Chequers, the prime minister’s country retreat, carrying a president who has long made headlines wherever he goes. In the manicured lawns and oak-lined drives, the choreography of statecraft […]

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3 w. ago Deputy Prime Minister attends Federal Darwish Graduation Ceremony in Mogadishu

On 17 September, 99 Federal Darwish trainees attended their graduation ceremony, held at International Compound in Mogadishu, in the presence of H.E. Deputy Prime Minister Salah Ahmed Jama and other high-level officials. The three-month programme was implemented in close collaboration with the Ministry of Internal Security, the Somali Police Force and Federal Darwish Headquarters, with […]

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3 w. ago Nepal settles into calm as country’s first female prime minister assumes office

In the Wounds of Kathmandu, a New Chapter Begins On a humid morning in Kathmandu, the antiseptic sting of a city hospital met the smell of incense. Young men and women lay propped on narrow beds, bandaged and bruised, some tracing the lines of hospital walls the way they once traced the edges of their […]

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3 w. ago Trump to meet Qatar’s prime minister days after Israeli strike on Doha

When Diplomatic Chords Snap: Qatar, Washington and a Strike That Echoed Across the Gulf On a crisp autumn morning somewhere between the glass towers of New York and the windblown palms of Doha, a delicate exercise in diplomacy was set to begin under a cloud of outrage and grief. A White House official, speaking on […]

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