Hungarian President Novak resigns over sex abuse case pardon
Budapest, Hungary Reuters Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigned on Saturday after coming under mounting pressure for pardoning a man convicted of helping to cover up sexual abuse in a children’s home. Novak, a close ally of conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, resigned a week after her presidential pardon was first reported by local news site […]
Egypt: Reelected to third term, Sisi is authoritarian leader with penchant for bridges
AIDAN LEWIS, of Reuters, reports from Cairo…
Egyptians vote in presidential election overshadowed by Gaza war
Cairo, EgyptReuters Egyptians began voting on Sunday in a presidential election set to hand Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a third term in power, as the country grapples with an economic crisis and a war on its border with Gaza. If Sisi wins a new six-year term, his immediate priorities would be taming near-record inflation, managing a […]
Updated: Ecuador leftist Gonzalez concedes presidential election to rival Noboa
Updated: 12:15pm (AEDT)Quito/Guayaquil, EcuadorReuters Ecuadorean presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez on Sunday conceded the presidential election to her rival, business heir Daniel Noboa, congratulating him on his victory. Noboa was tallying more than 52 per cent of the vote, while Gonzalez had about 48 per cent, with nearly 90 per cemt of ballot boxes counted. Ecuadorian […]
Lebanon’s top Christian cleric slams failed attempt to elect a president
Beirut, LebanonReuters Lebanon’s top Christian cleric said on Sunday the constitution and democratic system had been violated in “cold blood” during a failed attempt to elect a new president last week, and warned that divisions in the nation had widened. Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai spoke in his first sermon since the Iran-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah […]
Lebanon’s crisis deepens as presidential vote collapses
Beirut, LebanonReuters The powerful Hezbollah group and its allies thwarted a bid by their rivals to elect a top IMF official as Lebanon’s president on Wednesday, sharpening sectarian tensions and further dimming prospects for preventing a collapse of the state. Four years since Lebanon went into a financial meltdown that marks its worst crisis since […]
Nigeria’s Tinubu gets his turn as president, familiar problems await
Lagos, NigeriaReuters Bola Tinubu will be sworn in as Nigeria’s president on Monday under the cloud of a disputed election and pressure to quickly improve economic and security conditions, which many complain worsened under his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari. Two of Tinubu’s main opponents in the February election are challenging his victory on the basis of […]
In the US, Georgia pastor Mike Stone to challenge SBC President Bart Barber this summer
United StatesRNS For only the second time in more than three decades, a Southern Baptist Convention president will face a challenge for reelection. Georgia pastor Mike Stone, who lost a hotly contested election in 2021, announced on Wednesday that he would accept a nomination for the presidency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Pastor Mike Stone. PICTURE: […]
Xi clinches third term as China’s President amid host of challenges
Beijing, ChinaReuters Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third term as President of China on Friday during a parliamentary session in which he tightened his control of the world’s second-largest economy as it emerges from a COVID slump and diplomatic challenges mount. Nearly 3,000 members of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, voted unanimously in […]
Nigeria’s Tinubu defends win in disputed presidential poll
Abuja, Nigeria, Reuters Nigeria’s new President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday defended the integrity of the national election that he won, and called on citizens to unite around him after a bitter dispute over results opposition parties have said are flawed. The Independent National Electoral Commission said Tinubu garnered 8.79 million votes in the weekend election, […]