World
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Africa
3/2/2023 10:21:25 AM
The United States congratulated Nigeria on the election of ruling party presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, while calling for calm amid accusations of voter fraud and concerns over technical glitches.
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World
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Africa
3/1/2023 10:11:52 AM
Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was declared winner of Nigeria's presidential election early Wednesday and soon after thanked his supporters and appealed to his rivals who are already demanding a revote in Africa's most populous nation.
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World
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Africa
2/28/2023 12:23:41 PM
Tensions rose Monday during the counting of Nigeria's hotly contested presidential election when representatives from the parties of the two main opposition candidates walked out in anger from the center where state-by-state results were being announced.
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World
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War in Ukraine
2/21/2023 7:40:41 PM
Russia's security head on Tuesday held talks with the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy chief, calling for closer cooperation with Beijing to resist Western pressure.
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World
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Region
2/21/2023 6:38:50 PM
Tunisia's former parliamentary speaker Rached Ghannouchi appeared in court Tuesday on new terror-related charges after being accused of calling police officers "tyrants", his party said.
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World
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Africa
2/19/2023 6:54:19 PM
South Africa's governing ANC party on Sunday welcomed the "encouraging" expulsion of a senior Israeli diplomat from the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa.
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World
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International
1/29/2023 8:45:06 PM
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired the chairman of the governing Conservative Party on Sunday for a "serious breach'' of ethics rules in failing to come clean about a tax dispute.
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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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