With supporters demanding "bring back Boris" and critics calling it "an insult" to the British people, an anticipated bid by Boris Johnson to once again become UK prime minister has stirred an already boiling political pot.. "Boris Johnson is the man who ticks all those boxes."
After a series of humiliating battlefield defeats in Ukraine, Moscow is trying out a new tactic it hopes will swing the tide of the war: bombarding power stations just as winter sets in.. Maybe we will only hate them more," Olga, who declined to give her last name, told AFP. Russia's pivot to systematically attacking Ukraine power stations comes after a series of defeats in Ukraine.
Here are the main contenders potentially in the running to succeed UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, after she announced her resignation on Thursday: - Rishi Sunak - Truss easily beat the former chancellor of the exchequer in this summer's Tory leadership contest, winning party members over with promises to slash taxes and regulations without curbing government spending.. - Penny Mordaunt - The current cabinet member, 49, was an early grassroots favourite to succeed Johnson, and came within eight MPs' votes of beating Truss to make the final run-off against Sunak.
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Liz Truss is set to become the shortest-serving prime minister in Britain's history, after the public, MPs and the markets comprehensively rejected the self-styled heir to Margaret Thatcher.. Truss's rise to become the UK's third female prime minister inevitably led to comparisons with the first: Thatcher.
Deadly clashes between police and demonstrators protesting at the military's grip on power erupted in Chad on Thursday, claiming "about 30" lives, including around 10 members of the security forces, according to an official toll.. "There were about 30 deaths, including about 10 among the security forces, and several injured," government spokesman Aziz Mahamat Saleh told AFP. "A banned demonstration became an insurrection," he said.
Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday faced more calls from her own party to step down after a key minister quit and lawmakers rebelled during "a day of extraordinary mayhem".. Its tabloid sister paper The Sun ran the front page headline "Broken", saying Truss's "authority is in tatters after a day of extraordinary mayhem".
The Ethiopians government said Thursday that peace talks on the nearly two-year-old war in Tigray would start in South Africa next week.. "AUC (African Union Commission) has informed us that the Peace Talks is set for 24 Oct, 2022 to be held in South Africa.
Rohingya refugee Noor Kamal found a sympathetic welcome in Bangladesh when he fled the soldiers rampaging through his village -- but five years later, the hostility he now faces has left him pondering a dangerous return home.. "It's better we return home even if it means we have to face bullets.
For 60 years, the Cuban missile crisis has loomed both as a frightening lesson on how close the world came to nuclear doomsday -- and how skillful leadership averted it.. - The brutal war that has already gone on for eight months is substantively different than the Cuban crisis, where the question was how to prevent a Cold War confrontation over the discovery of Soviet nuclear weapons on the island from turning hot.
