CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan voters are choosing a new parliament Wednesday in an election shaped by mounting frustration among young people, high unemployment despite a thriving economy, and demands for better schools, hospitals and housing. Voting centers across the North African kingdom will open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time, allowing nearly…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — For years, Canada was a trouper in the drama of international affairs. An adept and experienced contributor, it didn’t often draw the spotlight when world leaders gathered at the U.N. each September. This year, the nation of 41 million has a new posture on the planet’s biggest diplomatic stage. Since a…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met US envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met US envoy Steve Witkoff on the sidelines of the UN General assembly in New York on Tuesday and informed him of Tehran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reported. According to the state news…
Reform UK leaders in Bradford have proposed pulling out of a network of councils which aim to create safe and welcoming communities for refugees and asylum seekers. Bradford was awarded Local Authority of Sanctuary status in 2021, meaning it guides refugees and people seeking sanctuary to services including English classes, and hosts events for refugees….
Police arrested Aleema Khan, sister of jailed former Pakistan prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan, from her residence in Lahore, according to a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson, Reuters reported. Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan’s sister arrested. (AFP) Earlier, the police had taken four PTI activists and workers into custody ahead of the party’s planned September…
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday said the “old American order” in West Asia had “collapsed”, while urging Islamic nations in the region to implement a new one. Ghalibaf said Iran’s positions on the diplomatic front are “completely clear, rational and non-negotiable”. (AFP) Ghalibaf further highlighted what he referred to as “two strategic…
NEW YORK (AP) — Maps. Where would we be without them? And how would we even know? They can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else. They can show us global political realities via the drawing of contested country borders. We take it as truth that not only does X mark…
THE ARCTIC is a safer place for America and its allies today. Due credit must go to President Donald Trump, a self-styled man of peace. He has, after all, lifted the shadow of imminent invasion from Greenland, the vast and hard-to-defend island that guards NATO’s high north. In the longer term a new defence agreement…
NAGOYA, Japan, Sept 20 (Reuters) – For someone who had to disguise herself as a man, dodge thrown stones and eventually flee her homeland to pursue cycling, Fariba Hashimi’s seventh-place finish in the women’s individual time trial at the Asian Games carried profound personal meaning for the 23-year-old Afghan. Hashimi, who fled Afghanistan after the…
At least two people have been killed after Ukraine launched a massive attack on Moscow. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that drones were fired towards a refinery and other oil industry facilities in the Russian capital and surrounding regions. Plumes of smoke rise from fires (centre) at an oil refinery following what the authorities say…