Less than 24 hours after the unveiling of the Senate border-Ukraine package, the deal appears to be on life support amid growing opposition from both Senate and House Republicans. The details of the package, itself the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes wrangling between Senate Republicans and Democrats, were finally made public the evening of Feb. […]
SEOUL—South Korean opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck on Tuesday by a man who lunged at him with a knife after asking for his autograph, officials said. Mr. Lee, 59, was rushed to hospital, where he underwent surgery to repair a major blood vessel, and was later recovering and conscious […]
Home Secretary James Cleverly remains firm that the Rwanda bill won’t face termination due to opposition from Tory rebels. This stance persists even as certain Conservative MPs express willingness to vote against the emergency legislation unless it undergoes enhancements.
Congress returns to DC and faces a tight deadline to avoid a government shutdown. House Speaker Mike Johnson has a plan in place, but it’s already meeting with resistance on both sides. NTD’s Melina Wisecup has more.
South Korea’s court on Wednesday rejected an arrest warrant request filed by prosecutors against opposition leader and former presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung over corruption charges. The Seoul Central District Court has denied the prosecutors’ request to arrest the Democratic Party leader, citing the absence of a clear risk that Mr. Lee might tamper with evidence. […]
ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s top investigation agency has arrested an opposition leader, who is a close aide of convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan, for exposing official secrets and harming state interests, according to case documents revealed Sunday. It’s the latest development in a standoff between the administration of outgoing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his predecessor Mr. […]
China has expressed “grave concern” over a scheduled U.S. hearing on the origins of COVID-19. According to an email sent by an official at the Chinese Embassy, China is in opposition to the investigation. Li Xiang, a counselor at the U.S. Chinese Embassy sent the email to Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) on April 14 at […]
LOS ANGELES—The film “Navalny” about the poisoning that nearly killed Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, and his detention upon his 2021 return to Moscow, won the Oscar for best feature documentary on Sunday. Joining director Daniel Roher on stage, Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya said: “My husband is in prison just for telling the […]
MOSCOW/BERLIN—Russia said on Thursday the West should not rush to judge it over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and that there were no grounds to accuse it of the crime, as talk in the West of punishing Moscow intensified. The Kremlin was speaking a day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Navalny had […]
Twelve pro-democracy candidates have been disqualified from running in Hong Kong’s upcoming Legislative Council election, including prominent activist Joshua Wong. Candidates announced their official disqualification on their respective Facebook pages, posting letters of notification from the government. Wong, a 23 year-old Hong Kong activist, received the largest number of votes in an unofficial election primary, with 30,000 […]
WASHINGTON—Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Wednesday scored a long-sought meeting with President Donald Trump, a high point on an international tour aimed at bolstering support for Guaidó’s U.S.-backed campaign to oust long-time ruler Nicolás Maduro.
KINSHASA—Democratic Republic of Congo’s electoral commission on Jan. 10, declared opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi the surprise winner of last month’s chaotic presidential election, but the runner-up dismissed the outcome as an “electoral coup.” The result sets the stage for Congo’s first democratic transfer of power, but also a tense political standoff with the potential for […]
A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that people across the world are increasingly losing their appetite for migration. Researchers at Pew conducted telephone or face-to-face interviews with responders in 27 nations in the spring of 2018 and compiled the results in a study published on Dec. 10. “As the number of international migrants […]
