Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has conducted a partial government reshuffle amid escalating conflict In a statement, the council announced that Al-Burhan dismissed Hussein Awad as minister of foreign affairs, appointing Ali Yousif Ahmed as his successor. Graham Abdel-Qadir was removed from his post as minister of culture and information and…
The Australian government announced on Monday that Australia has scrapped a satellite communications system being developed for the military. Lockheed Martin Australia was awarded the tender to build a defiance owned and operated Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite communications system in 2023. When the tender was awarded, the government said that it was a “multi-billion…
Four mountaineers died in the Italian Alps in separate accidents on Sunday, according to the mountain rescue service. Their fatal falls occurred in the Veneto, Trentino and Piedmont regions in northern Italy. The deceased were reportedly three men and a woman. Rescue teams deployed helicopters and multiple teams in the affected areas. On Rocciamelone in…
Eight people who allegedly helped the perpetrator in the brutal murder of history teacher Samuel Paty are set to stand trial in a Paris court on Monday, four years after the incident. The crime, classified as an Islamist-motivated terrorist act, shocked France and sparked international outrage. In October 2020, the suspect, an 18-year-old with Russian-Chechen…
Top ministers from Germany’s three coalition parties are to meet over the coming days in an attempt to find a way out of the ongoing government crisis related to economic policy. Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats (SPD) is to meet with Economy Minister Robert Habeck of the Greens and Finance Minister Christian Lindner…
A survey has shown German companies in the United States are showing some reluctance to invest given the U.S. presidential election. According to a survey by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) published on Monday companies are waiting to see what the future economic policy of the country will be. DIHK foreign trade…
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Kamala Harris are running neck and neck ahead of the presidential election, a fresh Leger poll released by the New York Post showed. Both candidates have 49 per cent support ahead of the Tuesday vote, while the other 2 per cent of respondents said they would…
Political scientist Dimitri Simes has voiced alarm regarding the widespread repression and persecution of dissenters in the United States. Recently, Simes’s home in Virginia was searched by the FBI, which he interprets as part of a broader crackdown on supporters of former President Donald Trump. Simes also highlighted the FBI’s search of Scott Ritter, a…
The race is still too close to call between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, with only two days to go until Election Day. Vice President Harris and former President Trump hold leads in different important swing states, according to new polling. The polling from The New York Times/Siena College and The New…
Vice President Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party and former President Donald Trump of the Republican Party both held rallies in the key battleground state of North Carolina yesterday, hoping to win the support of undecided voters. At her rally in Charlotte, Harris began by criticising Donald Trump, saying “This is someone who is increasingly…
