Civil society group says citizens trying to nominate candidates to stand against el-Sisi have encountered harassment. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has confirmed that he will stand for a third term in office at an election scheduled for December. The election, which el-Sisi is widely expected to win, comes as Egypt grapples with an economic crisis, record…
Turkey has pointed the finger of blame at PKK, which has been waging an armed rebellion against Ankara for decades. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is in the spotlight after Turkey blamed it for Sunday’s suicide blast in front of the Ministry of Interior in Ankara. The PKK has not officially claimed responsibility for the attack. Within…
British stocks ended September-quarter higher on Friday with domestically focused mid-cap stocks snapping a six-day losing streak after data showed UK’s economy fared better in the second quarter than previously thought. The FTSE 100 (.FTSE) ended 0.1% higher and closed the third quarter with 1% gain, after a 1.3% fall in the previous quarter. However, the benchmark…
Britain is in the final stages of talks with Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party and is preparing proposals it hopes will convince them to return to devolved government, Britain’s Northern Ireland minister wrote on Saturday. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) collapsed the executive more than 18 months ago in protest at the first post-Brexit deal…
Britain’s economic performance since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has been much stronger than previously thought, with faster growth than Germany or France, according to revisions to official data released on Friday. Britain’s economy in the three months to the end of June 2023 was 1.8% larger than in the final quarter of 2019,…
Britain’s finance minister Jeremy Hunt ruled out near-term tax cuts ahead of a mid-year fiscal statement due on Nov. 22, but said in a newspaper interview he wanted to avoid “a vicious circle of ever-rising taxes”. Many lawmakers in Britain’s ruling Conservatives want Hunt to deliver tax cuts before the next election, as their party…
Around 1.8 million people in the U.S. received a COVID-19 vaccine during the week ended Sept. 22, according to data compiled by health care data and analytics firm IQVIA Holdings Inc (IQV.N). Around 1 million people received the Pfizer (PFE.N)/BioNTech (22UAy.DE) shot and just under 800,000 got the Moderna (MRNA.O) vaccine, Michael Kleinrock, senior research director at the IQVIA institute told…
If Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting on Sunday and the government shuts down, the effects will be felt around the world, with many workers furloughed from foreign policy and national security positions or ordered to work without pay. A shutdown could also dent the United States’ reputation at a moment…
Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall brought flash flooding to New York City on Friday, disrupting subway service, inundating ground-level apartments and turning some streets into small lakes. Almost eight inches (20 cm) of rain fell in some parts of the most populous city in the U.S., enough to enable a sea…
Fresno, California, became only the second U.S. city to ban caste discrimination after a unanimous city council vote that added caste and indigeneity as two new protected categories into its municipal code. THE TAKE A movement against caste discrimination has picked up some momentum in recent months in North America. Earlier this year, Seattle became the…
