If I were living in Wales, next week I would vote Welsh nationalist, for Plaid Cymru. But I would do so for what its leader claims to support but doesn’t talk about enough: independence. Wales is where I have spent a fifth of each year for almost all of my life. Its natural beauty, the…
A ban on new leasehold properties in England and Wales is unlikely to come into force until after the next election, the housing minister has said, as he defended the government’s piecemeal attempts to dismantle the system. The long-promised end would take years to “switch on”, Matthew Pennycook said, even though the ban of leaseholds…
Nearly a year after the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, two deeply sourced books offer competing portraits of the context and maneuvering behind the first U.S.-born pope’s election. Popes, Dollars and Wars, by renowned Italian journalist Massimo Franco, traces how the church in the United States, long treated in Rome as a periphery of the…
Investing.com — With the U.S.-Iran conflict potentially nearing a resolution, Wall Street is turning its focus back to the domestic political landscape as midterm elections approach. Analysts at Wolfe Research note that President Donald Trump’s approval rating, already softening before the hostilities, has faced renewed downward pressure due to the economic and social fallout from the…
(RNS) — Nearly a year after the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, two deeply sourced books offer competing portraits of the context and maneuvering behind the first U.S. pope’s election. “Popes, Dollars and Wars,” by renowned Italian journalist Massimo Franco, traces how the church in the United States, long treated in Rome as a…
For 20 years, Palestinians in Gaza have endured Israeli bombardments, repeated displacement and a brutal dictatorship. Under such conditions, the holding of elections seemed a distant prospect. Now, Palestinian officials are making preparations for municipal elections this weekend in a single Gaza city, Deir al-Balah, one of the few places where the Israeli military did…
A commission appointed by Tanzania’s government on Thursday said that the deadly violence that followed last year’s presidential election was fomented by well-trained agitators with outside help and the authorities were not to blame. The commission was set up by President Samia Suluhu Hassan as the first consolidated attempt by the state to explain the…
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat in the Hungarian election after 16 years in power, with the opposition securing a landslide election win. Péter Magyar is the country’s new prime minister, after record numbers turned out for an election which was seen as pivotal to the future of Hungary and Europe. Magyar’s party is…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been in power for 16 years. As a friend to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, there is much international attention on the country’s 12 April elections. The BBC’s Europe Editor Katya Adler reports from Orbán’s home town of Felcsút on why the knife-edge vote…
Shorouk Express “Once again, the opposition chose obstruction over responsibility, blocking the will of the majority and preventing Kosovo from moving forward,” Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Liza Gashi, a member of VV, told POLITICO. Kurti offered to step aside and let his VV colleague, Glauk Konjufca, speaker of the Assembly, take the mandate of prime…
