Blinking under the garish lights of a hotel ballroom in southern Iraq, Wael Makhsusi argued his case to a young audience. Microphone in hand, the engineer in his 30s stood onstage in Basra with other novice candidates in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Among them were independents and hopefuls drawn from the …

Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes argued that the government should use some $200 million from international reserves to pay the New Development Bank (NDB), the BRICS bank. To do this, a new understanding must be reached at the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) on the cap on public spending, which …

“Karabakh belongs to the Republic of Azerbaijan and it is part of Islam”, “Karabakh belongs to the Republic of Azerbaijan and must be returned to it”; these are just some of the comments made by Iranian Shiite clerics last year who are close to government institutions in the Iranian political …

In an address to the nation in early July, President Joe Biden suggested that one of the factors leading him to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan was the “need to focus on shoring up America’s core strengths to meet the strategic competition with China and other nations that …

Andrej Babiš si jako podnikatel pořídil několik nemovitostí na Azurovém pobřeží ve Francii. „Realitní kancelář to doporučila koupit přes advokáta. Není to nic nelegálního,“ řekl včera. Má pravdu. Vlastnil tehdy obří holding Agrofert, tak proč by si nemohl pořídit cokoliv, po čem jeho srdce prahlo? Dokonce platí, že pokud se …

Afghanistan and Tajikistan share a 1,400-kilometer border. Recently, a war of words has erupted between Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the Taliban government in Kabul. Rahmon censures the Taliban for the destabilization of Central Asia by the export of militant groups, while the Taliban leadership has accused Tajikistan’s government of …

Победата на германската Социалдемократическа партия беше очаквана за всички, които следяха социологическите проучвания във федералната република. В Норвегия преди месец Партията на труда надви десните управляващи и така в скандинавските страни вече навсякъде управляват център-леви формации. Леви формации управляват в Испания и Португалия, а в Италия социал-демократите са сред важните …

Δεν θα έπρεπε να ξαφνιάζεται κανείς με όσα συμβαίνουν αυτές τις μέρες στο ΕΠΑΛ της Σταυρούπολης. Είναι πολύς καιρός τώρα που τα υπολείμματα της ναζιστικής εγκληματικής οργάνωσης επιχειρούν να δώσουν σημεία ζωής. Επειδή μάλιστα η Χρυσή Αυγή έχει τριχοτομηθεί, σε ομάδες Μιχαλολιάκου, Λαγού και Κασιδιάρη, καθένα από τα τρία αποκόμματα …

Libya’s parliament on Monday passed a law on legislative elections, its spokesman said, ahead of a planned national vote set for December 24 under a United Nations-led peace process. The law comes less than a month after speaker Aguila Saleh signed off a law for presidential elections to be held …

While the Taliban may have wrested control of Afghanistan from the national government, the fighting and killing continue. Taliban forces raided an ISIS-K cell in Kabul and killed several of the terrorists, according to a Taliban spokesman. The raid followed a deadly bombing at a Kabul mosque earlier on Sunday …