The battle over voting rights in the US is a drama that’s playing out in the Congress and state legislatures across the country. In Philadelphia on Tuesday, Joe Biden gave a fiery speech, warning that American democracy is facing its greatest threat ...
“According to the first part of Article 18 of the Law on the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, he has submitted his resignation,” the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said in a statement. The statement did not elaborate on...
Then-President Donald Trump told a number of his advisers in 2020 that whoever leaked information about his stay in the White House bunker in May of that year had committed treason and should be executed for sharing details about the episode with mem...
President Joe Biden has staked his presidency on America’s return — a return to normalcy amid the coronavirus pandemic, a return to the global stage following four years of Trump-era isolationism and, arguably, a return to many of the policy position...
Democrats in the Texas legislature have left their state en masse in an effort to prevent Republicans there from passing a law to tighten voting rules. The move will temporarily paralyse the state’s House of Representatives, which requires at least ...
Dozens of people have been arrested in Cuba after thousands joined the biggest protests for decades against the island’s Communist government, media and opposition sources say. Cubans have been angered by the collapse of the economy, food and medici...
A protest rally is taking place in front of the parliament. Media representatives and civic activists are gathered on the main avenue of the capital. Media representatives, civil activists, politicians and citizens are protesting against the death o...
South Africa is deploying the military to tackle riots that have broken out since the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma. Shops were looted and buildings set on fire on Monday as Zuma challenged his sentence at a hearing in the top court. At leas...
Thousands of Cubans have joined the biggest protests for decades against the island’s Communist government. They marched in cities including the capital Havana, shouting, “Down with the dictatorship!”. In response, police used pepper spray and be...
A statue of a Confederate general at the centre of a violent rally in Charlottesville nearly four years ago is to be removed on Saturday. The statue of General Robert E Lee and a nearby statue of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson will be moved to s...
