LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Andy Burnham’s Labour Party won an election for the parliamentary seat vacated by former leader Keir Starmer on Friday, fending off a strong challenge from the left-wing Green Party in a boost for the British prime minister. Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of the local council, won the by-election…
SHERBROOKE, Quebec (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Canada’s future will be decided by Canadians, pushing back on Elon Musk’s call for Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan to separate from Canada. “The future of Canada will be decided by Canadians and the priorities of Canadians, the priorities of the people of Quebec,”…
BUDAPEST, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Nepszabadsag (People’s Freedom), a leading left-wing Hungarian newspaper shut down a decade ago in a blow to media diversity under former prime minister Viktor Orban, relaunched on Thursday as an online news site and weekly magazine. The newspaper – founded during Hungary’s abortive popular uprising against Soviet domination in 1956…
BERLIN, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) will launch a joint motion with the small far-left BSW party in a regional parliament calling for an end to military support for Ukraine, an AfD spokesperson said on Wednesday. The motion, to be debated in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt next week, will…
Oct 7 (Reuters) – Two people were killed in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Wednesday, in the latest of Russia’s near daily round-the-clock attacks on its neighbour in their fifth year of war, which also damaged city buildings and warehouses. Two bodies were found as the air strike sparked a fire in a garage…
By Nora Buli and Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The Nobel Peace Prize committee is closely watching the reshaping of a world order in turmoil, and those fostering new ways of cooperating that match the award’s goals, its secretary says. Kristian Berg Harpviken, secretary of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee, prepares its dossiers…
BRUSSELS, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Russia is putting lives at risk across Europe with hybrid attacks, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday, at a news briefing alongside Moldovan Prime Minister Vasile Tofan. “Europe has seen a spike in the Russian hybrid attacks and sabotage attempts and airspace violations in recent weeks. Russian missiles and…
PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) – World food prices rose in September to their highest in nearly four years as logistics disruptions and weather concerns affected crop markets, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said. Fears about a severe El Nino weather pattern have pushed international sugar prices to an 18-month high, while a war-related…
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated Moscow’s long-held position that Russia is not planning to attack European countries but will respond to aggression with “all weapons” in its arsenal. In remarks at a foreign policy forum, Putin accused the West and Europe of escalating tensions by talking about preparing for a war with Moscow in…
CARABALLEDA, Venezuela (AP) — The collapse of public housing buildings in the Venezuelan state of La Guaira following two catastrophic earthquakes in June can be traced back to their beginnings in 2010, experts and former officials told The Associated Press. It was then that mudslides and heavy rain displaced more than 100,000 people across the…