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Paraguay's President Santiago Pena has resigned amid a crisis over his ties to collapsed lender Ueno. Millions of customers' accounts are frozen, with public pension and health care funds also tied up.
The landslide victory of the Students' List in Serbia's general election seems to have removed a blockage in the justice system: Cases that were long stalled are now suddenly moving forward. How can this be?
The decision comes after legislators from the opposition and its own party pushed a political trial to remove it.
Through a video published on his social media, Paraguay's President, Santiago Peña, resigned on November 5 following the opening of a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on a possible political trial for the intervention and closure of Ueno Bank, an entity linked to the president. The Central Bank's measure triggered a financial and political crisis that affected 2.9 million customers with branch closures and access to accounts.
Sir Chris Bryant is understood to have asked parties to commit to raising an extra £200m in income.
Democrats took control of the American Congress in the half-renovation elections by winning the majority in the Houses of Representatives and the Senate. We ask today what is the importance of the Arab voice influencing the American elections. Had the 2026 elections been held in a new phase in which the Arab-American voice became a partner in determining American policies. With us on the subject from Michigan Ahmed Ghanem, an American expert, a former candidate for the American Congress.
The deputies rejected Wednesday, November 4, at first reading, and unanimously voted on the draft state budget 2027, which will therefore be sent in its original version to the Senate. After deleting several key articles from the government text, the Assembly rejected as last year the "revenue" part of the text, with 458 votes against, from all groups, and two abstentions within the communist and ultramarine group.
The victory of Progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the mid-term elections, after a campaign marked by his criticism of Israel, illustrates the erosion of American support for the Hebrew state since the wars in Gaza and Iran. Between the cost of living associated with tensions in the Middle East and the isolationist aspirations on the right, the historical alignment of the United States with the Israeli government also faltered.
The intervention of Ueno Bank, one of Paraguay's largest financial institutions, has shaken the country's banking system and its political leadership. The President of the country is facing a political trial that could be approved on Thursday.
The first minister has told Holyrood fossil fuels will be required "for some years to come".
After having obtained the majority in the Congress of the United States, democracies are preparing to launch a series of parliamentary investigations aimed at managing President Donald Trump and his surroundings against accusations of corruption, personal enrichment and conflicts of interest.
Following the mid-America elections, which reversed the balance of power in Washington and gave the democrats control over Congress, the political implications of these results for the two major parties and the future of American politics are being viewed. Do these results reflect the delegation of democracies, or are they essentially a message of rejection of the Republican and authoritarian approach represented by Donald Trump? What is the impact of divisions within the Democratic Party, the role of political money and the lobbyism in the next phase? We also depend on the implications of these shifts on foreign policy files, particularly the relationship with Israel and the external wars of the United States. These and others we discuss with the guest of France24.
Face of the unpopular war in Iran, the controversial Pete Hegseth appears as an ideal scapegoat after the debacle of Camp Trump in mid-term elections. While the democrats claim to want to remove this faithful among the faithful of the president, some Republican elected officials plan to put his indictment to the vote next week.
The centrist Gadi Eisenkot, rival of Benjamin Netanyahu, appears on Thursday in a good position to be charged with forming the next Israeli government, after obtaining the support of the main Arab list and while the outgoing Prime Minister lost the support of an ultra-Orthodox key ally.
Already a "success" of the mobilization of Thursday 5 November for the unions: strikes for various social causes had gathered hundreds of thousands of people outside the Paris region at midday, putting pressure on the government to concede a significant increase in the SMIC and the suppression of Parcoursup among others. The explanations of Marc Perelman, political columnist in France 24.
US President Donald Trump faced a radically transformed and hostile political landscape after Democrats seized both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Tuesday's (November 3) midterms. The result was a personal humiliation for the 80-year-old Trump, leaving him as a lame duck president for the remaining two years of his term. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert has more.
Arab-led parties won a record 19 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament in last week's general election.
Former army surgeon and Gaza volunteer Hamawy is the first Muslim American elected to the US Congress from New Jersey.
Israel’s president consults party leaders on forming a government, as Israeli forces attack Palestinians in Gaza.
The CNMC supports the Government's proposal after finding that commercial networks cover the demand and low cost of financing
