Kuwait, an OPEC oil producer, bans political parties but has given its legislature more influence than similar bodies in other Gulf monarchies.
Reuters Oct 19, 2022
The impasse underscores the weakened position of President Emmanuel Macron since his centrist party lost its majority in parliamentary elections last spring, just weeks after his own re-election.
AFP news Oct 18, 2022
Sunak, 42, repeatedly warned that her plans to fund the proposals through extra borrowing were reckless and could worsen decades-high inflation as well as market confidence in the UK.
AFP news Oct 18, 2022
It's military shorthand for a fallen soldier -- 200 being the number of kilos a zinc army coffin bearing a body generally weighs.
AFP news Oct 18, 2022
Schlumberger, Halliburton and others have struggled to regain pricing power after a 2016 price drop. The oil market crash during the pandemic in 2020 stifled hopes for a rebound.
Reuters Oct 18, 2022
The phenomenon -- dubbed "japa," meaning "to flee" in Yoruba -- regularly trends on social media.
Reuters Oct 18, 2022
Germany - the bloc's biggest economy and the main opponent of capping gas prices - said joint purchases, reducing consumption and boosting supply were the way to go instead.
Reuters Oct 18, 2022
Truss on Tuesday was to meet her cabinet and attempt to rally support among Conservative MPs, some of whom have publicly said she has no future as prime minister.
AFP news Oct 18, 2022
The president, popularly known as Jokowi, was speaking to reporters at the state palace after meeting Gianni Infantino, head of world soccer governing body FIFA.
Reuters Oct 18, 2022
Credit Suisse Group AG has approached at least one Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund for a capital injection, a source said, while some funds are looking at the scandal-hit Swiss bank's businesses as potential investment opportunities.
Reuters Oct 18, 2022
"We've seen a very different China emerge in recent years under Xi Jinping's leadership," Blinken told a forum at Stanford University with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.
AFP news Oct 18, 2022
The ministry of emergency situations said in a statement that rescuers had completed the search of the rubble, and discovered "10 more bodies", after earlier announcing three deaths.
AFP news Oct 18, 2022
Neymar had been set to testify on either October 21 or 28 but the judge agreed to bring forward his hearing to avoid a clash with his football commitments.
AFP news Oct 18, 2022
Trade union leaders are hoping workers will be energized by the government's decision to force some of them to go back to work at petrol depots.
Reuters Oct 18, 2022
The United States says Russia will likely carry out test launches of missiles during its annual "Grom" exercises of its strategic nuclear forces, perhaps in just days.
Reuters Oct 18, 2022
AU Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat called for an immediate and unconditional truce as combat intensified in northern Ethiopia, where pro-government forces and rebels from the Tigray region have been fighting for nearly two years.
AFP news Oct 17, 2022
State news agency IRNA said eight people were injured in the unrest, which erupted after nearly a month of protests across Iran over the death in detention of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman.
Reuters Oct 17, 2022
Amini's arrest was an ordeal shared by hundreds of women every year who are deemed to have fallen foul of the Islamic republic's strict dress rules imposed after the fall of the shah.
AFP news Oct 17, 2022
Members of the group Just Stop Oil also staged a sit-in protest on Park Lane where the sports carmaker's store is located in an exclusive area of the British capital.
AFP news Oct 17, 2022
Russia's defence ministry said the attack in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, happened during a firearms training session.
AFP news Oct 17, 2022
Iran's judiciary said four of those injured in Saturday's fire were in critical condition and that those killed had died of smoke inhalation, Iranian state media reported.
Reuters Oct 17, 2022
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigrayan authorities have accepted an AU invitation to talk, but negotiations set for last weekend in South Africa failed to materialise and no new date has been announced.
AFP news Oct 17, 2022
Announced in May, the deal is the second biggest globally so far this year and marks Broadcom's attempt to diversify its business into enterprise software.
Reuters Oct 17, 2022
Court documents also show more women in Moscow being charged in relation to anti-war protests in February and March in the early weeks of the conflict than in anti-Putin protests in previous years.
Reuters Oct 14, 2022
Islamist militants have advanced further into eastern Mali in recent days, seizing territory, killing hundreds of civilians and forcing thousands to flee, regional Malian officials and analysts said.
Reuters Oct 14, 2022
In comments to French television Wednesday, Macron accused Russia of "destabilising" and "seeking to create disorder" in the Caucasus.
AFP news Oct 14, 2022
Former cabinet minister Lorenzo Fontana won the vote in a show of unity by the country's nascent right-wing government coalition after the squabbling alliance agreed a temporary truce.
AFP news Oct 14, 2022
Ethiopia, Somalia and parts of Kenya are also on track for a fifth failed rainy season, with famine looming in Somalia.
Reuters Oct 14, 2022
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is due to present the annual fall economic statement in November.
Reuters Oct 14, 2022
At the same time, Russian-backed forces in the east have announced they are inching closer to the Ukraine-held down of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region.
AFP news Oct 14, 2022
