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Inga Ruginienė smiles after Lithuania's parliament approved her as Lithuania's new prime minister in Vilnius, 26 August, 2025
Former labor union leader Inga Ruginienė becomes Lithuania's new prime minister
VILNIUS — Lithuania's parliament elected a former labour union leader and relative political newcomer as the country's new prime minister on Tuesday, weeks after her predecessor resigned following investigations into his business dealings.Lawmakers approved Inga Ruginienė as the new head of government by 78 votes to 35.Ruginienė, a former head of Lithuania’s labour union confederation, joined the centre-left Social Democratic Party just before a general election last year.She then served as minister for social affairs and labour under Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas, who resigned in July after less than a year in office.Paluckas had been dogged by media investigations into his business and financial dealings.Several media outlets published investigations in July regarding...
August 26, 2025

Former labor union leader Inga Ruginienė becomes Lithuania's new prime minister

Activists block a highway during a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, 26 August, 2025
Israeli protesters block highways asking government to secure release of hostages in Gaza
TEL AVIV — Protesters in Israel torched tyres and blocked highways on Tuesday as they demanded the government reach a ceasefire that would free the hostages still being held in Gaza, as Israeli leaders press ahead with plans for an offensive which they argue is needed to crush Hamas. "Go back to the negotiation table. There's a good deal on the table. It's something we can work with," said Ruby Chen, the father of 21-year-old Itay Chen, a dual Israeli-US citizen whose body Hamas still holds in the Strip. "We could get a deal done to bring all the hostages back." Responding to a call from Israel’s Hostages and Missing Families Forum for a "National Day of Struggle," protesters waved banners that read "Hostage Deal Now". The...
August 26, 2025

Israeli protesters block highways asking government to secure release of hostages in Gaza

François Bayrou has been in office since his predecessor's government collapsed last December
French PM fights for survival as rivals refuse to support confidence vote
PARIS — French opposition parties have said they will not back Prime Minister François Bayrou after he called a vote of confidence on 8 September on plans for deep budget cuts. Bayrou, who has led a minority government since last December, called the vote on Monday, warning France was facing a "worrying and therefore decisive moment". "Yes, it's risky, but it's even riskier not to do anything", he said, in the face of France's mounting budget deficit. From the National Rally on the right to the Socialists, Greens and France Unbowed on the left, opposition parties lined up to say they would vote against him. Bayrou called the vote two days before protests have been called across France to "block everything". The Bloquons tout...
August 26, 2025

French PM fights for survival as rivals refuse to support confidence vote

Cook is one of seven members of the Fed's board of governors and the first African American woman to serve in the role
Trump orders removal of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has said he will immediately remove Federal Reserve official Lisa Cook from her position, a major escalation in his battle against the US central bank.In an announcement made on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump posted a letter addressed to Cook in which he informed her of his decision to remove her from the bank's board of governors with immediate effect.He said there was "sufficient reason" to believe she had made false statements on mortgage agreements, and cited constitutional powers which he said allowed him to remove her.In response, Cook has said Trump has no authority to fire her and she will not resign."President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no...
August 26, 2025

Trump orders removal of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook

Botswana's president Duma Boko
Botswana declares national public health emergency
GABORONE — Botswana has declared a public health emergency as it faces a shortage of essential medicines and medical equipment.President Duma Boko made the announcement in a televised address on Monday, setting out a multimillion-pound plan to rectify the supply chain involving military oversight.Managing the shortages would be "highly price sensitive due to our limited coffers", he told the nation.The country's economy has been hit by a downturn in the international diamond market, as it is one of the world's leading diamond producers. This strain, further fuelled by US aid cuts, has seen most of the 2.5m Botswanans facing unemployment and high levels of poverty, according to media reports."The work shall remain nonstop until the entire value chain of procurement...
August 26, 2025

Botswana declares national public health emergency

President Donald Trump (R) meets with President of South Korea Lee Jae Myung in the Oval Office at the White House on August 25, 2025
Trump tells South Korean president he wants to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump is willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he told his South Korean counterpart during a meeting on Monday where they discussed peace in the Korean Peninsula and Pyongyang’s nuclear weapon capabilities.South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who was elected in June, asked Trump to help establish peace between the two Koreas during his visit to the White House – claiming the situation had been more stable during Trump’s first term in office.“I think you are the first president to have so much interest in the world’s peace issues and actually made achievements,” Lee said. “So, I hope you would make peace on the Korean Peninsula ... and meet with Kim Jong Un.”He added that he would “actively support” Trump if he wanted...
August 26, 2025

Trump tells South Korean president he wants to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
Australia blames Iran for attacks in Sydney and Melbourne, expels Iranian ambassador
SYDNEY — Australia says it will expel Iran's ambassador after alleging the country's government directed antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the attacks were "extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation". Nobody was injured in the attacks, which happened last year.Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio) chief Mike Burgess said his agency had intelligence that Iran was "likely" behind more attacks on Jewish targets in Australia incidents.Ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi and three other Iranian officials have been ordered to leave Australia within seven days. Iran has not yet commented on the accusations.Burgess said: "Iran has sought to disguise its involvement, but Asio...
August 26, 2025

Australia blames Iran for attacks in Sydney and Melbourne, expels Iranian ambassador

An injured emergency worker is led away by two other emergency workers
Five journalists among 20 dead in Israeli strike on hospital, Gaza officials say
JERUSALEM — At least 20 people, including five journalists working for the international media, are reported to have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.A Reuters cameraman and an Associated Press journalist were among those killed in the attack at Nasser Hospital. Another journalist is reported to have worked for Al Jazeera.Several people were killed in an initial strike, and others in a second which happened as rescuers attended the scene, the Hamas-run Civil Defence said.The Israeli military and the prime minister's office said they had no immediate comment.Pictures from the scene show grey smoke billowing from an upper level where damage is apparent, at what is the main hospital in southern Gaza.Outside, people are running and shouting amid...
August 25, 2025

Five journalists among 20 dead in Israeli strike on hospital, Gaza officials say

A worker examines a sample at the receiving station of the oil pipeline 'Druzhba', or Friendship, in Szazhalombatta, Hungary -
Hungary and Slovakia in spat with Ukraine over bombed Druzhba oil pipeline
BUDAPEST — Ukrainian attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline have blocked oil imports into Hungary and Slovakia for days and provoked an ongoing war of words between Kyiv, Budapest, and Bratislava. Ukraine attacked oil facilities on Russian territory with drones and rockets. The pipeline delivers Russian oil through Ukraine and Belarus to Central Europe, where Hungary and Slovakia still import large amounts. On Sunday, Ukraine's president suggested that the attacks on the pipeline might be connected to Hungary's veto on Ukraine's EU accession. "We always supported the friendship between Ukraine and Hungary. And now the existence of the friendship depends on what Hungary's position is," Zelenskyy said when asked whether the attacks on the Druzhba...
August 25, 2025

Hungary and Slovakia in spat with Ukraine over bombed Druzhba oil pipeline

A man rides a motorbike on a road before Typhoon Kajiki makes landfall in Vietnam, in Nghe An province on August 25, 2025
Thousands evacuated, flights canceled as Vietnam braces for Typhoon Kajiki to make landfall
HANOI -— Vietnam closed schools, airports, and evacuated thousands of people as it braced for powerful Typhoon Kajiki to make landfall Monday, threatening the country’s northeast with destructive winds and storm surges.The typhoon downed trees and soaked China’s southern Hainan island on Sunday before moving over the Gulf of Tonkin overnight with sustained wind speeds of 166 kph (103 mph), according to Vietnam’s national weather forecast agency, the equivalent to a Category 2 Atlantic hurricane.More than 40,000 people had been evacuated in low-lying coastal communities as of Monday morning, according to the state-run VN Express. Residents have been told not to leave their homes between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time, the state Vietnamese News Agency (VNA) reported.Kajiki is the...
August 25, 2025

Thousands evacuated, flights canceled as Vietnam braces for Typhoon Kajiki to make landfall

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