•Election candidate, rapper Balendra Shah (C) of Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) shows a victory sign Nepal had two per cent of votes left to count today after parliamentary elections, with rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah’s centrist Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) having secured a majority. The 35-year-old Shah’s rise from the capital’s ...
•Fire rages through the main administrative building for the Nepal government, yesterday Nepali demonstrators set parliament ablaze yesterday while the veteran prime minister Sharma Oli quit, as a “Gen Z” protest movement sparked by a ban on social media overtook the Himalayan nation. At least 19 people were killed during rallies a day earlie...
•People celebrate after France’s prime minister failed to win a confidence vote in parliament France’s parliament today ousted the government of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou after just nine months in office, leaving President Emmanuel Macron scrambling to find a successor and plunging the country into a new political crisis. Bayrou, who has ...
The United States rejected visa applications for multiple members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team, which was scheduled to train in the country, the country’s prime minister said yesterday, as he cancelled the group’s participation in the practice. The visa refusals come amid the US President Donald Trump’s administration’s immigration cra...
•President Kais Saied (R) receives newly appointed Prime Minister Sarra Zaafrani Zenzri at the Carthage palace in Tunis today Tunisian President Kais Saied has dismissed Prime Minister Kamel Madouri, his office said today, as the North African country grapples with major economic issues. Madouri, a technocrat appointed last August as part of ...
•Canada’s Prime Minister designate Mark Carney (C) and his wife Diana Fox Carney (C L) arrive for his swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall today, in Ottawa, Canada Mark Carney has been sworn in as Canada’s prime minister today, taking charge of a country rattled by a breakdown in US relations since President Donald Trump’s […]
•Serbian Prime Minister, Milos Vucevic Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic resigned today, following months of mass demonstrations over the fatal collapse of a train station roof in November. The Balkan country has been rocked by regular protests in the wake of the deadly disaster at the train station in the northern city of Novi Sad [&hellip...
•President of the CNSP (National Committee for the Salvation of the People) Assimi Goita (C) Mali’s junta chief yesterday sacked civilian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga and the government, days after Maiga issued a rare criticism of the military rulers. “The duties of the prime minister and the members of the government are terminated,”...
•Protesters in France More than 100,000 left-wing demonstrators rallied across France yesterday to protest against the nomination of the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister and denounce President Emmanuel Macron’s “power grab”. The interior ministry said 110,000 people took to the streets nationwide, including 26,000 in Paris, while ...
•President Emmanuel Macron President Emmanuel Macron is getting ready to announce a new prime minister following the legislative elections that caused political deadlock in France. The announcement could come as early as Wednesday evening, according to sources close to him. However, the identity of the new head of government is still uncertain...

