Israel’s war on Gaza has been raging for more than a year, killing 42,500 people, reducing much of the enclave to rubble and heightening concerns of escalation in the region. Fears have increased further since the Israeli army intensified deadly strikes on Lebanon in recent weeks, killing hundreds of civilians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu … Read more
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are neck and neck in the polls with three weeks to go until the presidential election. If the polls are to be believed, few United States presidential elections have been as close as this one. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are neck and neck, but pollsters say the result may … Read more
Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson calls election for November, cites policy disagreements as responsible for government collapse. Icelandic Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has dissolved the country’s three-party coalition government and called for a new election to take place in November. In a press conference on Sunday, Benediktsson said problems had mounted within the left-right coalition on … Read more
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris present conflicting plans on the issue of immigration. What are the positions of the two United States presidential nominees on immigration and is it a make-or-break topic on who will next sit in the White House? The Democrat’s Kamala Harris says she wants to fix a broken system. But Republican … Read more
With weeks to go before the US presidential election, do issues matter as much as ‘vibes’? Will Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s bet on anti-immigrant attitudes pay off? Will Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’s wager on abortion rights come through? Did their debate sway anyone to change their mind about whom to vote for? To what … Read more
Without naming the two main US presidential candidates, the pontiff decried abortion and restrictions on immigration. Pope Francis has encouraged Catholics in the United States to vote in the November elections, saying they should “choose the lesser evil” while criticising both of the leading candidates. In remarks on Friday while flying to Rome from Singapore, … Read more
Both sides claim victory as they seek to sway swing voters in the run-up to November’s election. The first televised debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former United States President Donald Trump was closely watched in the US. Harris’s team says she won, but Trump’s side say their man came out on top. So … Read more
With two months to go before the US presidential election, the candidates are outlining their vision for the world’s biggest economy. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris says she plans to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy while the Republican hopeful Donald Trump says he’ll slash what he says is unnecessary federal spending. The economy and … Read more
US vice president pledges support for Israel as she accepts the Democratic Party nomination. Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, has become the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to accept the presidential nomination of a major party in the United States. If elected, she would be … Read more
Israeli prime minister’s visit comes amid the Gaza war and a US presidential race. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was welcomed by a cheering US Congress this week as thousands of people took to the streets in Washington, DC, to protest against Israel’s nine-month-old war on Gaza. How is Netanyahu’s visit being viewed in the … Read more