"I feel much better here than in France," the 32-year-old of North African descent told AFP.
1 day agoThe president-elect joined a chorus of congratulatory messages from countries across the globe for Wong, Singapore's first new prime minister in 20 years. ...
1 day agoWhile China does not want to upend its ties with the West, and insists it is not sending lethal weapons to Moscow, Washington has stressed that Russia would struggle to sustain its assault on Ukraine without Beijing. ...
1 day agoWilders won an election nearly six months ago and reached a deal on Wednesday to form a coalition with three right-wing partners. He has not yet proposed his choice for prime minister, but has ruled himself out.
1 day ago"The People's Republic of China can't have its cake and eat it too," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters.
1 day agoThe 26-page coalition agreement emerged early Thursday after six months of gruelling talks between four parties following the stunning election victory of far-right leader Geert Wilders.
2 days agoHamas meanwhile insisted it would take part in any decision on the post-war government of Gaza as Palestinians marked the 76th anniversary of the "Nakba", when around 760,000 Palestinians fled or were driven from their homes during the 1948 creation of Israel.
2 days agoHis victory at the February presidential election, Prabowo said, was evidence that the Indonesian people approved of him.
2 days agoWong rose to prominence in 2020 as co-chair of the pandemic taskforce and was named Lee's successor in April 2022 after a series of consultations between the political leadership and Wong's peers.
2 days agoThe 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations has led so far fruitless diplomatic efforts to solve the conflict unleashed by the military's putsch, which has displaced 2.7 million people, according to the United Nations.
2 days agoChina and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing just days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, triggering the deadliest land war in Europe since World War Two.
2 days agoSlovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, a 59-year-old four-time premier who came back to power after his Smer-SD party won a general election last year, chaired a government meeting in the central town of Handlova. Shots were fired after the meeting.
2 days agoSome 40 percent of registered voters in the eight-day poll, which closed on Tuesday, said they would vote for Biden, a Democrat, if the election were held today, with the same share picking former President Trump. The dead heat was little changed from a 1 point lead that Biden held in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted April 29-30.
3 days ago"Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed that all international events scheduled for the coming days be postponed and new dates coordinated," Sergii Nykyforov said in a post on Facebook.
3 days agoWilders, who has influenced Dutch immigration policy from the opposition benches since 2006 and is known for his outspoken views on Islam, was expected to announce a four-party coalition later in the day.
3 days agoTreasury officials from Washington visited Malaysia last week to discuss their worries that the Palestinian group was fundraising there.
3 days agoPrabowo in his capacity as Indonesian defense minister has in recent years boosted security cooperation with the Gulf nation. Prabowo revealed last year that his team was negotiating with the UAE for the procurement of several used Dassault Mirage 2000-9 fighter jets.
3 days agoWong, 51, comes from among a crop of so-called "4G" leaders, a new generation of politicians hand-picked by the long-ruling People's Action Party (PAP) to take over the reins of the key Asian trade and financial centre.
3 days agoBoeing breached obligations under an agreement that had shielded it against legal proceedings for the accidents, department officials said in a letter to a federal court in Texas.
3 days agoThe administration informally notified the weapons package to Congress, which will need to approve it, a US official said, while a congressional aide who also requested anonymity said the weapons bought from US weapons makers amounted to around $1 billion.
3 days agoShortly after arriving at the Al Shati presidential palace in Dubai, Prabowo began his conversation with MBZ by introducing Gibran to the Gulf country's leader.
3 days agoThe inaugural dialogue -- announced during Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit last month to Beijing but without a confirmed date -- will take place in Geneva.
4 days agoPutin will be in Beijing from Thursday to Friday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement, the Russian leader's first trip abroad since his March re-election and his second in just over six months to China.
4 days ago"Shots were fired at the gendarmes using high calibre weapons and hunting rifles. There have been no deaths," High Commissioner of the Republic Louis Le Franc told reporters.
4 days agoOutgoing President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is also scheduled to attend the forum in Qatar, though the President will likely depart for the Middle East separately following his Monday trip to Southeast Sulawesi.
5 days agoFigures in robes and caps, some waving Palestinian flags, were seen filing out of crowds of graduates assembled on the grass in the North Carolina University's football stadium in the video posted on X. Reuters was able to verify the video's date and location.
5 days agoIndonesia said it was “hopeful” that the historic United Nations General Assembly vote last week that gives Palestine additional rights in the world body would pave the way for Palestine to be accepted as a full-fledged member of the UN.
6 days agoThe US move "seriously infringed on China's sovereignty and security," the military said.
6 days agoPhilippe Lazzarini, the head of UNWRA, said in a post on the social media platform X that he had decided to close the compound until proper security was restored. He said Thursday's incident was the second in less than a week.
1 week agoChina's embassy in Manila had orchestrated "repeated acts of engaging and dissemination of disinformation, misinformation and malinformation", with the objective of sowing discord, division and disunity, Eduardo Ano said in a statement.
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