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World
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International
1/29/2023 2:39:11 PM
Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won a party primary and will run for a second term in September elections.
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Business
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Economy
1/27/2023 2:14:05 PM
Britain's Treasury chief said Friday that taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes, resisting calls from some in the governing Conservative Party for immediate tax breaks for businesses and voters.
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World
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Region
1/26/2023 6:48:01 PM
Turkey's pro-Kurdish party should back the main opposition candidate instead of fielding its own against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in May elections, its elder statesman told AFP from jail.
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World
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International
1/24/2023 1:32:19 PM
Bulgaria will hold another parliamentary election - its fifth in two years - after the Socialist Party on Tuesday announced that it had failed to form a government and had returned the unfulfilled mandate to the country's president.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/23/2023 2:20:39 PM
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was welcomed by his South African counterpart for talks in Pretoria on Monday, in a visit that has sparked criticism against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine.
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World
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International
1/22/2023 8:05:00 PM
The United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC) has condemned the "vile" act of burning the Quran in Sweden on Saturday by a far-right party leader.
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World
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International
1/21/2023 6:18:55 PM
Thousands of people protested in Madrid Saturday against Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's leftist government in a rally held in a key election year in Spain that was backed by far-right party Vox.
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World
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Africa
1/9/2023 2:32:26 PM
Ugandan police said Monday they have arrested a key suspect who went on the run after a deadly stampede at a New Year's Eve party in the capital Kampala.
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World
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International
1/7/2023 9:47:07 AM
Republican favorite Kevin McCarthy was named speaker of the US House of Representatives on Saturday as he quelled a fierce rebellion among his party's ranks that had paralyzed the lower chamber of Congress for days.
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World
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International
1/5/2023 3:52:25 PM
Britain's opposition Labour party vowed Thursday to overhaul the country after 13 troubled years of Conservative rule -- but insisted it would not spend its way out of trouble.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/31/2022 9:07:00 PM
The defence industry is already making tens of billions of dollars in revenue from the war in Ukraine as the US, UK and others sending arms and ammunition to Kyiv need to replenish their stocks.
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World
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Region
12/31/2022 6:58:28 PM
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians thronged a Gaza City park Saturday to mark the 58th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah party, a rare show of popularity in the heartland of the militant Hamas group, Fatah's main rival.
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World
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Africa
12/31/2022 6:58:04 PM
Several people have been killed and others injured in anti-government protests in the southeast of the breakaway region of Somaliland, the head of an opposition party and local officials said Saturday.
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World
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Region
12/28/2022 3:46:41 PM
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has named former general Yoav Galant as defence minister in his upcoming cabinet, a spokesperson for his Likud party said Wednesday.
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World
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International
12/19/2022 2:55:33 PM
France's President Emmanuel Macron has joined the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle on Monday off Egypt to observe the traditional Christmas party with the troops, according to news agencies.
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World
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Africa
12/16/2022 2:05:43 PM
South Africa's ruling African National Congress party is starting its crucial national conference amid scandal and bitter divisions.
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Business
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Economy
12/14/2022 10:33:49 PM
The UK’s Conservative Party has appointed billionaire Mohamed Mansour, former transport minister under Egypt’s late longtime President Hosni Mubarak, as senior treasurer to the party, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
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World Cup 2022
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News
12/14/2022 12:34:08 PM
The streets of Argentina turned into a party Tuesday as the national team beat Croatia by a comfortable 3-0 and earned this soccer-crazed South American country a spot in the World Cup final.
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World
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International
12/10/2022 9:25:20 PM
Japan's parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targets the Unification Church, whose fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the governing party caused public outrage.
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World
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International
12/9/2022 6:01:07 PM
Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party on Friday submitted a constitutional amendment to parliament enshrining women's right to wear headscarves at work and in daily life, reviving a hugely divisive issue in the officially secular state.
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