BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s conservative president has resigned amid public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the long-serving nationalist government. Katalin Novák, 46, announced in a televised message on Saturday that she…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, two strong allies who don’t always get along personally, will talk migration, fentanyl trafficking and Cuba relations on Friday. The two leaders are in San Francisco for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, where Biden has held a series of face-to-face…
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a meeting a year in the making. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping sat down together on Wednesday just outside of San Francisco, where Asian leaders gathered for an annual summit. It was almost exactly one year since their last encounter in Bali, Indonesia, on the sidelines of…
WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping plunged into their first-face-to-face meeting in more than a year Wednesday pledging to work to stabilize fraught relations in talks with far-reaching implications for a world grappling with economic cross currents and wars in the Middle East and Europe. “Planet Earth is big…
MADRID (AP) — Veteran Spanish right-wing politician Alejandro Vidal-Quadras was shot in the face in broad daylight on a central Madrid street on Thursday, although his life wasn’t in danger, according to the hospital where he was rushed for treatment. Police said he was attacked at around 1:30 p.m. local time and was conscious when…
BJP National Secretary Anupam Hazra (Image: X) Later, in a post on X, Hazra questioned whether a state spokesperson has the authority to comment on remarks made by the party’s national secretary BJP national secretary Anupam Hazra stirred controversy by suggesting that “corrupt” TMC leaders apprehending summons by the CBI or ED should contact him…
Dismissing as ”conjecture” the talk about the possibility of his party switching to the NDA, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary on Monday said parties would not be comfortable joining hands with the BJP which, he alleged, is ”very effective” at steam-rolling dissenting voices. Singh, who is part of the opposition group INDIA, said he does not…
Shiromani Akali Dal Leader Sukhbir Singh Badal. (File: PT) He said Punjab has an inalienable right over the river waters flowing across it and added the Riparian Principle also makes this quite clear Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal has announced that if his party comes to power in Punjab in 2027, it will…
Published By: Kavya Mishra Last Updated: August 13, 2023, 13:48 IST Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge. (Image: PTI) The Congress chief also claimed that people have been awakened and the time has come for the Modi government’s “farewell” Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that his government has…
Published By: Kavya Mishra Last Updated: August 12, 2023, 23:24 IST PM Narendra Modi (right) and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File photo/Reuters) Sharing data, they said Modi’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter, received approximately 79.9 lakh engagements in the past month while Gandhi’s handle received approximately 23.43 lakh engagements The reach of Prime…