After his drubbing in local polls, momentum is firmly with the conservative opposition
The best chance in a decade to repair its democracy is lost
Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s attempt to ride the nationalist tide looks doomed
Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s attempt to ride the nationalist tide looks doomed
They have links to Ukrainian military intelligence and, in some cases, to the far right
Amid speculation that a departing (male) leader could go into politics
Now it needs to think about how to deal with China
But only if the charging infrastructure is ramped up much faster
An outright majority now looks within his grasp
Another vote looks likely in July, when a new system should see him back in office
Pakistan authorities have summoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to face questioning over an outbreak of violence that followed his brief detention earlier this month, according to Dawn News. Khan is under attack after military buildings were attacked following his arrest on corruption charges.
China has declined a request by the US for a meeting between their defence chiefs at an annual security forum in Singapore this weekend, media reported on Monday, a new sign of strain between the powers. Overnight, the PRC informed the US that they have declined our early May invitation for Secretary Austin to meet with PRC Minister of National Defense Li Shangfu in Singapore, the Pentagon said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal, referring to China by the initials of its official name, the People's Republic of China.
Clashes with Serb protesters in Northern Kosovo left around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers injured on Monday. The protests arose after ethnic Albanian mayors took office in a Serb majority area after Serbs boycotted the recent election. The tense situation is exacerbated by the fact that Serbs, who comprise a majority in Kosovo's north, have never accepted its 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia.
North Korea will launch its first military reconnaissance satellite in June for monitoring US military activities, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. In a statement carried by the KCNA news agency, Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party, denounced joint military exercises by the United States and South Korea as openly showing their reckless ambition for aggression.
China successfully launched three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, including the first Chinese civilian in space. Shenzhou-16 is the first mission to Tiangong since it entered its “application and development” stage. The crew’s mission includes the study of quantum phenomena, high-precision space time-frequency systems, the verification of general relativity, and the origin of life.
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