Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was detained at a march in Caracas on Thursday in her first public appearance in months and her ally, former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, demanded she be freed immediately. CBC | World News
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Ex-French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96
Jean Marie Le Pen, the father of France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen, co-founded what has now become one of the country’s most influential parties in the mid-1970s. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Israeli defence minister claims responsibility for Hamas leader Haniyeh’s assassination
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz admitted on Monday for the first time publicly that Israel killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran in July, further risking tensions between Tehran and arch-enemy Israel in a region shaken by the war in Gaza and the conflict in Lebanon. CBC | World News
Read More »Zelensky accuses EU leader of helping Putin in Ukraine and it’s not Orban
The Slovakian leader was a critic of the EU’s response to the war in Ukraine before his election in 2023. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »EU civil war brews as European leader meets Putin and claims he’s been ‘wrongly demonised’
The eastern European Prime Minister has been in power on-and-off for more than 10 years since 2006. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »U.S. drops $10M bounty for HTS leader after ‘very productive’ diplomat meeting in Damascus
Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on Friday met with Syria’s de-facto new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and held a “good” and “very productive” meeting with him about Syria’s political transition and decided to remove a bounty on his head. CBC | World News
Read More »Former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad says departure to Russia wasn’t planned
Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad says he had no plans to leave the country after the fall of Damascus a week ago but the Russian military evacuated him after their base in western Syria came under attack. CBC | World News
Read More »On the stand, Netanyahu switches from divisive wartime leader to defiant accused criminal
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Read More »Polygamist leader Samuel Bateman draws 50-year sentence for efforts to coerce women, girls into sex
A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual ‘wives’ including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as nine years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to kidnap them from protective custody. CBC | World News
Read More »Leader of South Korea’s ruling party supports suspending Yoon’s powers
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