Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his challenger Flavio Bolsonaro concluded their election campaigns Saturday with booming rallies and calls for a resounding victory the following day. Lula, 80, toured Brazil’s economic powerhouse Sao Paulo on the back of a campaign truck, cheered on by a sea of red and vowing to “defeat […]
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Protests over housing flare in Spain after relief measures rejected
Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Madrid and other cities in Spain on Saturday to demand affordable housing, a day after lawmakers rejected relief measures for tenants. The demonstrations extended a crisis that has gone on for more than a week, triggered by the eviction last month of a pensioner, 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal, from […]
Latvian exit polls suggest pro-European choice
Exit polls from Latvia’s parliamentary election published Saturday evening favoured Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ party, suggesting the country will maintain its pro-European and pro-Ukrainian course. But populist parties also had a good night after an election campaign dominated by fears over neighbouring Russia and the cost of living at home. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ centre-right […]
Israel targets top Hamas leader in deadly Gaza strike on anniversary
Israel said on Saturday that it attempted to kill Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip in an airstrike on an apartment that local officials said killed five people, four of them women. The pre-dawn strike came on the anniversary according to the Jewish calendar of the October 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest-ever day for […]
Houthis say struck oil facility near Riyadh, as Saudis hit Sanaa
Yemen’s Houthis claimed an attack on an oil facility near the Saudi capital on Saturday, where an AFP journalist saw flames and smoke, and accused the Gulf kingdom of striking Sanaa dozens of times. The foes have traded strikes since the Houthis seized all of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and took control of the Bab al-Mandab […]
UAE investigators say flydubai co-pilot was planning ‘terrorist act’
UAE investigators have said the co-pilot of a flydubai flight to Israel this week was planning a “terrorist act” and used the cockpit’s emergency axe to attack the captain, but they did not reveal his motive. During the flight on Wednesday, its Indian captain was assaulted by the co-pilot but managed to open the cockpit door, […]
Fashion industry in ‘precarious moment’, says Vivienne Westwood supremo
Vivienne Westwood creative director Andreas Kronthaler said the fashion industry was in a “precarious moment” as he unveiled his latest Spring-Summer collection for the British house at Paris Fashion Week. Kronthaler, the Austrian widower of Vivienne Westwood who took over after her death, found inspiration from African fabrics and his own penchant for night gowns […]
Ethiopia’s Tigray rebels abandon regional capital as govt advances
Ethiopian federal forces had entered the Tigray state capital on Saturday, a humanitarian source told AFP, after residents reported that the region’s rebels had abandoned the city. Fighting erupted on September 23 in northern Ethiopia as the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) launched attacks into neighbouring states, raising fears of a return to the devastating […]
Ex-PM says Putin cannot admit ‘mistake’ over Ukraine
Despite growing economic trouble and rising unease among ordinary Russians and the elite, President Vladimir Putin is not ready to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, his former prime minister said on Saturday. Speaking to AFP in an interview, Mikhail Kasyanov, Russia’s prime minister from 2000 to 2004, said he believed his former […]