December 9, 2023
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it spotted a Chinese surveillance balloon in the Taiwan Strait along with a large-scale movement of military aircraft and ships. The ministry said the balloon passed southwest of the northern port city of Keelung on Thursday night, then continued east before disappearing, possibly into the Pacific Ocean. There seemed to be
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Key Points On Thursday, Russia’s upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, announced the Russian presidential elections. A day after, Vladimir Putin has said he will stand again for a fifth term in office. Opinion polls show Putin has approval ratings of 80 per cent, but sociologists warn the results can’t be trusted. Russian President
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The Russian government has approved a three-day voting window for its presidential elections in 2024. Ella Pamfilova, chairwoman of the Russia Central Election Commission, said that although the extended election window was originally conceived as a pandemic accommodation in 2020, its “other benefits” have made keeping it desirable. “Three-day voting is already becoming a tradition in
READ MOREFormer President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution as he runs out of opportunities to delay or even derail an upcoming trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Lawyers for the 2024 Republican presidential primary frontrunner filed a notice
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Putin, a former KGB agent who has been in power either as president or prime minister since 1999, has not officially announced if he will run. Russia on Thursday set 17 March as the date for a presidential election which is expected to be another shoo-in for Vladimir Putin, who has silenced opposition during over
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Analysts say it’s unlikely that anyone but the current Russian president will be able to take up the mantle at the next election. ADVERTISEMENT Russian lawmakers have set the date of the country’s 2024 presidential election for 17 March 2024. The move means President Vladimir Putin is a step closer to a fifth term in
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The former Liberal candidate who nearly kicked out NSW Premier Chris Minns from his own seat of Kogarah, will win preselection as the next federal candidate for Bennelong. Sydney business man and Ryde local, Scott Yung, is set to challenge sitting Labor MP Jerome Laxale, who won the formerly safe Liberal seat with a 7.9
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Cold medications containing pseudoephedrine will again be sold over-the-counter in New Zealand, as the country’s newly formed government overturns the ban as part of “long overdue” health reforms. New Zealand’s incoming conservative Prime Minister announced on Thursday that an agreement to form a three-party coalition government had been reached, 40 days after the country went
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He’s been called the Dutch Donald Trump. He’s been threatened with death countless times by Islamic extremists, convicted of insulting Moroccans and Britain once banned him from entering the country. Now Geert Wilders has won a massive victory in a Dutch election and is in pole position to form the next ruling coalition and possibly
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Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders will start looking for coalition partners on Thursday after a massive election win that is set to have wide repercussions in the Netherlands and Europe. A fan of fellow eurosceptic, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the vocally anti-EU Wilders has vowed to halt all immigration, slash Dutch payments to
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