POLITICS

Britain's grassroots Conservatives braving national railway strikes and the Manchester rain to attend their party's annual conference appeared pragmatic Monday about the electoral realities they face.

DR Congo's Denis Mukwege, a surgical gynaecologist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced on Monday that he would run for president in elections planned for December.

Congress will continue discussing a new bill to fund the government in 2024; OPEC+, Russia and allies are meeting.

The president-elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, secured the release of his jailed mentor on Sunday, a day after divisive polls that saw the pro-Beijing leader vow to rebalance relations with New Delhi.

Afghanistan's embassy in India suspended operations on Sunday, more than two years after the Taliban's return to power in Kabul following the collapse of the Western-backed government.

U.S. Congress approved a stopgap funding bill Saturday, averting a government shutdown with just hours to spare. President Joe Biden signed the bill after the Senate passed it in the evening.

The U.S. Treasury secretary said the shutdown threatens economic progress.

Members of the Republican party joined Democrats to reject the stopgap measure aimed at avoiding the shutdown.

Canada's domestic politics could be a factor in the escalating row with India, as the Trudeau government is dependent on Jagmeet Singh's New Democratic Party for survival.

Trudeau described India as a "growing economic power and important geopolitical player" and said Canada is serious about building closer ties with the South Asian country.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo hip surgery Friday, saying he'd been reluctant to interrupt his global diplomatic travels but hopes the operation will put a spring in his step — and boost his mood.

House Speaker McCarthy signals he's opposed to the Senate resolution to prevent a shutdown.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said his government does not support the revival of the Khalistan movement, which is banned in India. However, Khalistan groups are allowed to vocalize their campaign.

U.S. State Department Spokesperson Mathew Miller did not confirm whether the India-Canada diplomatic standoff over the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar will be discussed in an upcoming meeting.

So far, the two countries have only been exchanging words after the Philippine Coast Guard accused the Chinese maritime militia of installing the 300-meter "floating barrier."

Nagorno-Karabakh's decades-long, bloody dream of independence ended on Thursday with a formal decree declaring that the ethnic Armenian statelet in Azerbaijan "ceases to exist" at the end of the year.

US Republicans launch impeachment inquiry hearings into Joe Biden on Thursday, escalating an eight-month corruption investigation that has failed to uncover evidence of wrongdoing by the president.

Burkina Faso's military government said Wednesday it had foiled a coup attempt the previous day, almost a year after the country's leader came to power in a coup himself.

The United States is heading toward a government shutdown this weekend with no foreseeable way out of a deadlock in Congress over hardline Republican calls for deep spending cuts.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday offered an "unreserved" apology in parliament after the legislature publicly celebrated a Ukrainian World War II veteran who fought alongside the Nazis.

The House Speaker rejected Senate's alternative plan to temporarily fund the government.

France's ambassador to Niger landed in Paris on Wednesday, after weeks of tensions with the post-coup regime in the West African country who demanded his expulsion.

The vessel Shi Yan 6 was described by Chinese media as a "scientific research vessel" with a 60-member crew that will dock in Sri Lanka to conduct ocean surveys.

Amid the ongoing diplomatic tensions, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India is open to looking at any information Canada provides related to the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

The judge's decision was a part of a series of his rulings in a 16-page pretrial order Tuesday where he formalized the evidence admissible in court during Bankman-Fried's fraud trial next month.

US presidential hopefuls prepared Wednesday for the second 2024 Republican primary debate, with runaway frontrunner Donald Trump once again reducing the event to a sideshow after refusing to take part.

The US president supports the workers' strike to get higher wage increases.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday against a new atomic arms race bringing the threat of "annihilation" to the world, as North Korea charged that its peninsula was on the brink of nuclear war.

Philippine senators appear to be getting fed up with China's "bullying" of the PCG and Filipino fishermen, but none of them want to go to war, demonstrating how high the stakes are should an armed conflict arise from escalating tensions at Scarborough Shoal.