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A recount of the votes cast in Sunday’s first round of presidential elections in Romania has been ordered by the country’s top court following allegations that social media platform TikTok gave “preferential treatment” to the surprise winner, Calin Georgescu. The Constitutional Court also rejected claims filed by two of the losing candidates who accused Georgescu … Read more
As Canada enters the early stages of influenza season, experts warn that Australia’s record-breaking flu outbreak may offer a troubling glimpse of what might come. The latest data from Australia’s National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System shows the country recorded 352,532 laboratory-confirmed flu cases this year, eclipsing the previous high of 313,615 cases in 2019. Flu vaccination … Read more
A top court issued the ruling just days after an ultranationalist outsider unexpectedly won the most votes in the first round of presidential elections held Sunday.
Voters in Ireland will cast their ballots on Friday in an election that could shake up a century of political tradition. Instead of a typical left-right swing between governments, Irish voters have always put one of two centre-right parties into power. But for the first time in history a left wing party has been leading … Read more
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum got a foretaste of what dealing with Donald Trump’s return to the White House will be like on Wednesday night, when she was forced to correct what appeared to be Trump’s mischaracterization of their first conversation. On Wednesday afternoon, Sheinbaum tweeted that she’d had “an excellent conversation with President Donald Trump. We talked about … Read more
A hiker was found alive this week in the remote wilderness of northwestern Canada, where he had been lost for more than six weeks, authorities said. Sam Benastick was initially reported missing on Oct. 19 after failing to return from a backcountry trip in Redfern-Kiely Provincial Park, an isolated landscape known for its alpine tundra … Read more
British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says countries must work more closely to tackle people smuggling. The United Kingdom says it has signed a security pact with Iraq to target people-smuggling gangs and strengthen border cooperation, the latest in its efforts to crack down on irregular migration. “There are smuggler gangs profiting from dangerous small boat … Read more
JERUSALEM – A radical Islamist group unleashed its biggest military incursion against Syrian regime forces since 2020 in the northwest of the war-ravaged Syrian Arab Republic, triggering Russian and Syrian warplanes on Thursday to bomb the insurgent offensive. Rebels led by the U.S-designated Islamist terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stormed a dozen towns and villages … Read more
This report is from this week’s CNBC’s “Inside India” newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse and the big businesses behind its meteoric rise. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Four years ago, Keshav Raj graduated with a degree in computer science from the prestigious SRM Institute … Read more
A power cut plunged Zimbabwe’s parliament into darkness as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was finishing his budget speech. The lights flickered and died, leaving top officials like President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and members of parliament sitting in the dark. The outage is a symptom of Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis, with daily 12-hour blackouts driven … Read more