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The Swiss voters largely ruled out a proposal to tighten the policy of neutrality that the country has maintained since 1848. The initiative, supported by a right-wing populist party, sought to limit the Government in joining the sanctions against countries in conflict and to ban cooperation with military alliances such as NATO, unless the country was attacked.
Aleksandar Vucic will now be running to be prime minister in the upcoming snap parliamentary elections slated for next month.
Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and its allies won enough seats in France's Senate to form a parliamentary group in the upper house for the first time in the party's history Sunday, securing 14 seats out of 348. Half the upper house is elected through indirect voting every three years, with senators serving for six years.
South Korea's presidential office criticised Ukraine for denying POW nondisclosure agreement.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced his resignation on Sunday, ending his second and final five-year term and opening the way for an early presidential election.
The Madrid Union of Inquillins and Inquillines raises the tents at the central Puerta del Sol as a measure of pressure against the central government to approve the "Mari Carmen Decree," which seeks to establish indefinite rental contracts, freeze rental prices and impose a moratorium on evictions. The protest broke out after the eviction of an octogenary, which has become a symbol of the housing crisis in Spain.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran is prepared for war to resume, ‘even if it comes to a doomsday war’.
Claudia Sheinbaum faces her third year of term after 12 months in which she has well realized her character, her vulnerabilities and her strengths
Presidential candidates Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro continue their campaigns and mass baths a week from the first round. On September 26, the son of the right-wing former president, Jair Bolsonaro, was escorted by a motorcyclist caravan, while the current president met with his followers in São Paulo.
Burnham wants to offer access to free social care services in England. He'll put his plans before voters at the next general election.
The state of the social care system in England is a topic that's made Andy Burnham angry for decades - but will his plans for reform work?
After two days in Paris, where he drew hundreds of thousands of worshippers, Pope Leo XIV is continuing his visit to France in the southwestern pilgrimage town of Lourdes. There, he is due to meet privately with survivors of clergy sexual abuse. His four-day trip is the first official papal visit to France in nearly two decades. For more reaction, we can speak to Marc Artzrouni, the French representative for the global coalition “Ending Clergy Abuse”.
There are fears of renewed fighting between the US and Iran, after President Trump rejected a deal.
Tensions are running high in Northern Ireland after the High Court in Belfast approved a controversial parade. Around 2,000 protesters have blocked the route into a Catholic area where the Protestant march was due to pass. It is the first time in nearly 30 years that the Orange Order has been allowed to march along this route, which was a notorious flashpoint before the 1998 Good Friday Agreement largely brought an end to the bloodshed of the Troubles. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appealed for calm on all sides, saying he does not want to see Northern Ireland “go backwards.”
Smotrich’s words should not be dismissed as mere election rhetoric, human rights experts and analysts warn.
Yemen's healthcare system may not be able to support the population as war strains resources, minister tells Al Jazeera.
The former President of the Supreme Court and former Constitutional Magistrate, who died on Friday, attached as much importance to the law as to the sensitivity with which to interpret it.
The president, who works "against the clock" to approve it on Tuesday, insists that supporting it "is a question of humanity" and "not of ideology"
