The first polling stations opened in Vermont early on Tuesday as Americans began voting in midterm elections that will test President Donald Trump’s hold on Congress and shape the final two years of his term. Voting later began in New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut and parts of Kentucky and Indiana. All 435 seats in the House […]
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Austria’s debate over citizenship has become one of the country’s most charged political questions. At its centre is a simple but powerful issue: who deserves to call themselves Austrian? Chancellor Christian Stocker has drawn a firm line against making Austrian citizenship easier to obtain. In comments to the newspaper Heute, he said: “With me as […]
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Across Pakistan, journalism is becoming a profession many reporters can no longer afford to practise. Behind bylines and television studios, media workers face stagnant salaries, delayed wages and weak legal protection. The result is a quiet crisis: experienced journalists are leaving the field, while those who remain are increasingly exposed to pressure from employers, officials […]
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Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, warned on Tuesday that a renewed war would serve “no one,” hours after United States strikes were reported on Qeshm Island in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. His appeal for calm came as Americans prepared to vote in midterm elections shaped by anger over a war that has unsettled global markets, […]
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Austria’s plan to limit family reunification for recognised refugees may violate European Union law, according to a leading European legal expert. Franz Leidenmühler, a professor of European law at Johannes Kepler University Linz, argues that the quota system proposed by the Interior Ministry is incompatible with EU law. In a legal assessment of the government’s […]
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France has opened a judicial investigation into a war-crimes complaint over an Israeli airstrike that destroyed a residential building in Beirut and killed seven civilians, including the parents of French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, according to AFP. Cherri filed the complaint with the International Federation for Human Rights after losing his father, 87, and mother, 77, […]
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A Russian bomb attack on an aid centre in Ukraine has killed 24 people, according to Ukraine’s emergency services agency. The strikes destroyed a school being used as a humanitarian centre in the village of Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday. Five other people were reported injured. “After the […]
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LAHORE, Pakistan: The Punjab government has told the Lahore High Court (LHC) that civilians convicted of offences against the state cannot claim protection under fundamental rights, as it seeks to dismiss a legal challenge by Barrister Hassaan Khan Niazi, the nephew of former prime minister Imran Khan, against his transfer to military custody and subsequent […]
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VIENNA: After years of discussion, plans for a memorial honouring Vienna’s guest workers are finally taking shape. The monument is expected to be built near Vienna’s Central Station, close to the former Südbahnhof, where thousands of migrant workers arrived in search of jobs and a better future during the 1960s and 1970s. Many of these […]
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Eleven oil tankers have caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz over the past nine days, according to Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy, in a claim that has deepened concerns about one of the world’s most important shipping routes, according to Tasnim News Agency. In a post on X on Monday, the IRGC Navy […]
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