Category : Global

By Daniel Kanu Chief Chekwas Okorie is the former National Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP) and its presidential candidate in the 2015 election. Following the de-registration of the party and the other 73 political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), UPP collapsed its structures into the ruling All Progres...

After one regular session and three special sessions, the Texas Legislature is gone – finally.  The conservative agenda won big, with lawmakers passing legislation effectively banning abortion and limiting transgender students’ participation in sports. Also passed, an overhaul of the election system and newly drawn districts that critic...

NEW DELHI — The event will be watched by hundreds of millions around the world, on televisions in remote villages, jumbo screens in crowded cities, phones in migrant labor tenements and flickering monitors in the living rooms of a diaspora spread across the world’s time zones. Face-offs on the cricket field between India and Pakistan, […]...

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 23, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hopes that the Armenian Summit of Minds, taking place in the town of Dilijan, will become a certain platform for modeling the economy, the politics and the geopolitics, so that the processes taking place around the country would be more understandable and thus, more manageable. D...

Posted: Oct 22, 2021 / 07:00 PM MDT / Updated: Oct 22, 2021 / 07:03 PM MDT GRAND JUNCTION, Colo — Western Slope voters will cast their ballots in just 12 days. In Montrose, they’ll choose who represents the Montrose School Board. A third public forum sparked some controversy this week. Three candidates, Andrew Neal, […]...

BETHESDA, Md. — Chinese firms are collecting genetic data from around the world, part of an effort by the Chinese government and companies to develop the world’s largest bio-database, American intelligence officials reported on Friday. The National Counterintelligence and Security Center said in a new paper that the United States needed to better s...

Advertisement The new AUKUS defense pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States will go down as one of this year’s biggest foreign policy surprises. By contrast, the announcement of a free trade agreement (FTA) between New Zealand and the United Kingdom was expected – only the exact timing was uncertain. The U.K. […]...

Photo by Deb Gau Students at Southwest Minnesota State University welcomed Minnesota Sen. Gary Dahms, at left, and Rep. Chris Swedzinski, at right, to a Q&A session held on campus Thursday afternoon. The two legislators discussed current issues in Minnesota politics and education....

Oct 23rd 2021 Listen to this story Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Police investigating the murder of a Conservative MP in Britain were treating the incident as an act of terrorism. Sir David Amess, who represented the town of Southend, to the east […]...

Oct 23rd 2021 IN THE PAST few years the Western-led infrastructure behind globalisation has fallen into disrepair even as China has been building credible alternatives. The World Trade Organisation is in tatters, the IMF and World Bank are struggling for relevance and tarnished by scandal, and no one can agree on global rules to govern […]...