A Ugandan police officer unloads ballot boxes from a truck at a polling station set up in front of an electoral billboard supporting Uganda’s incumbent president Yoweri Museveni in Kampala on Jan. 15, 2026. LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images LAGOS, Nigeria — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni […]
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Trump accepts Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Machado
President Donald Trump met Thursday with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize medal. The president called it a “wonderful gesture of mutual respect.” “María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done,” Trump wrote on his social media platform. He also said […]
Venezuela releases imprisoned opposition figures, which Trump says U.S. requested : NPR
A relative of a political prisoner waits outside the Rodeo I prison in Guatire, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, after National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said the government would release Venezuelan and foreign prisoners. Matias Delacroix/AP hide caption toggle caption Matias Delacroix/AP GUATIRE, Venezuela — Venezuela released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists […]
Trump says Venezuelan opposition leader doesn’t have the ‘respect’ to govern after Maduro ousted
President Donald Trump said the leader of the Venezuelan opposition doesn’t have the “respect” of the country to govern following the ousting of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. led a series of strikes in the South American country early Saturday, eventually capturing Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and taking them to the U.S. […]
Bangladesh opposition leader Tarique Rahman returns after 17 years in exile | Politics News
BREAKINGBREAKING, The acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is considered top a PM candidate in February’s election. Published On 25 Dec 202525 Dec 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The heir to Bangladesh’s longtime ruling family and leader of the country’s powerful opposition, Tarique Rahman, has returned to the […]
Bondi terror attack updates: NSW opposition leader says low policing levels left Jewish event attendees ‘sitting ducks’; PM speaking with antisemitism envoy ‘daily’ | Australia news
Policing levels left Hanukah event attendees ‘sitting ducks’, says NSW Liberal leader Luca Ittimani Kellie Sloane, NSW’s opposition leader, has said police didn’t provide enough resources to Sunday’s attack. Sloane said more needed to be revealed about the decisions on police resourcing to protect Jewish events, both to protect the community and the police. She […]
Australia politics live: ‘not our job to make a bad bill better’, opposition says of nature laws face-off; Victoria passes changes to assisted dying bill | Australia news
‘Not our job to make a bad bill better,’ says shadow environment minister The shadow environment minister, Angie Bell, is doing the media rounds this morning, and sits in the “hot seat” – as she calls it – on RN Breakfast after Murray Watt. The Coalition says its chief concerns lie in the “wide-ranging powers” […]
Two killed in Cameroon protests ahead of election results, opposition says | Elections News
Hundreds of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Issa Tchiroma accuse President Paul Biya’s government of seeking to rig the vote. Published On 26 Oct 202526 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share At least two people have been killed by gunfire in Cameroon, as protesters rallied a day before the announcement […]