The election authority has announced that neither candidate secured a majority in Sunday’s election Following the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, it was announced that none of the candidates were able to secure a majority. A runoff between former President Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro …

The current turmoil in British politics can lead to disastrous consequences. It also mirrors the current state of the wider West Even fervent believers in the stability of Western democracies must surely have had their faith shaken last week by the extraordinary economic and political crises created by the newly-minted …

An Indonesian police chief and nine elite officers were removed from their posts Monday and 18 others were being investigated for responsibility in the firing of tear gas inside a soccer stadium that set off a stampede, killing at least 125 people, officials said. Distraught family members were struggling to …

President Paul-Henri Damiba led a coup earlier this year against a civilian government that lost support over rising violence by Islamist extremists. He has now been ousted by the same armed forces that helped him gain power. Burkina Faso’s self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore has accepted a conditional resignation …

The OPEC+ group of oil producers is discussing output cuts of more than 1 million barrels per day (BPD), OPEC sources said, and voluntary cuts by individual members could come on top of that, making it their largest cut since 2020. The group is set to meet on Oct. 5 …

Iraq logged only 327 COVID-19 cases in the past seven days, the Iraqi Ministry of Health said today, Monday. In its weekly epidemiological report on COVID-19, the Ministry reported 559 recoveries and one mortality. The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the virus in the region amounted …

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology has been awarded to Svante Paabo for his discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution, the prize-giving organization announced on Monday. “The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or …

Nine people, including senior regional officials, have been killed in two bomb attacks in Beledweyne in central Somalia, police officials said. “The initial information we have received confirms the death of nine people,” including state ministers and commissioners, Mohamed Moalim Ali, a local police commander, said on Monday. He added …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has severely censured the unrest that erupted in some parts of Iran following the death of a young woman, stating that the deadly riots were orchestrated in advance by the United States and the Israeli regime. Ayatollah Khamenei, the Commander-in-Chief of …

Shocked Florida communities on Saturday faced the full scale of the devastation brought by Hurricane Ian, as the death toll from one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States climbed steadily into the dozens. Rescuers were still searching for survivors in submerged neighborhoods and along the …

As the US midterm elections are right around the corner, the country is facing a shortage of election workers due to an unprecedented wave of violent threats against those performing such jobs. Senior election security lead at the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Kim Wyman said in an interview last …

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has been forced to reverse plans to scrap the highest rate of income tax after the move caused rebellion among lawmakers and turmoil in the country’s financial sector. Truss, and her new Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng, had announced a new “growth plan” on …

Russia’s Constitutional Court has approved the accession treaties signed by President Vladimir Putin allowing four former Ukrainian regions to become part of the Russian Federation after referendums. The court on Sunday ruled to “recognize…as corresponding to the constitution of the Russian Federation” the accords that would admit formerly breakaway People’s …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the full liberation of the key town of Lyman in the north of the Donetsk region after the Russian troops withdrew from the area. “As of 12:30 (0930 GMT), Lyman is fully cleared,” Zelensky said in a short video clip published on his social …

Exit polls indicate the party of conservative former Premier, Boyko Borisov, has come first in Bulgaria’s general election, the country’s fourth in 18 months, held amid mounting anxiety over soaring inflation and the impact of the Ukraine war. Borisov’s GERB party won around 25 percent of the vote on Sunday, …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has forwarded accession treaties, which formalize integration of four Ukrainian regions into the Russian soil, to State Duma — the lower house of the Russian parliament — for ratification. Putin submitted the treaties to the legislative body on Sunday, Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency reported. “The State …

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has denounced the integration of eastern Ukrainian republics into Russia and warned that there is no one to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin from following through on his recent threats of using nuclear weapons.  “To be clear, the guy who makes that decision — I …

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said that any individual or entity who supports the integration of eastern Ukrainian republics into Russia will face “severe” consequences. Sullivan issued the threat after he met Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of Ukraine’s President, in Istanbul on Sunday, according to a …

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says he does not see an imminent invasion of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) by China but claimed that Beijing was trying to establish a “new normal” with its military activities around Taiwan. The Pentagon chief said in an interview broadcast on CNN on Sunday, “I don’t see an …

A Mexican digital rights organization has identified Pegasus spyware infections on the phones of at least two journalists and a human rights defender in Mexico between 2019 and 2021. Their phones were infected with the infamous Israeli spyware during the term of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, according to a …