Politics News

A plan by Switzerland’s right-wing People’s Party to cap the population at 10 million has the backing of almost half the country, according to a poll before an expected vote next year.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced measures to help reduce cost burdens for small and medium enterprises in the Southeast Asian country, according to a Bernama report, days after his coalition performed poorly in state legislative elections in Sabah.

Australia activated disaster assistance in six areas of New South Wales state after high temperatures and winds stoked wildfires, including one that destroyed a dozen homes north of Sydney.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reminded social media companies that they will be held responsible when a ban on children having accounts takes effect on Wednesday.

Chinese fighter aircraft locked fire-control radar on Japanese military jets for the first time on Saturday, according to Japan’s Defense Ministry, an incident that is likely to further stoke simmering tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the US food supply chain for potential price fixing and other anti-competitive behavior to drive up costs of goods such as meat, seeds and fertilizer, especially by foreign companies.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doubled down on deadly US airstrikes against alleged drug-running boats off the Venezuelan coast, saying he would have made the same call as the admiral who ordered survivors to be killed.

Hong Kong voters began casting ballots in a general election Sunday for the legislature, days after the city’s deadliest fire in nearly eight decades stoked a level of public anger not seen since major street protests about six years ago.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, fresh from a meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday, touted her country’s “good relationship” with the US in a political rally to commemorate her party’s anniversary.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon called out slow bureaucracy in Europe in a warning that a “weak” continent poses a major economic risk to the US.

A former Venezuelan governor has died while being held in one of the intelligence police’s prisons in Caracas for more than a year.

The leaders of France, Germany and the UK will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in London on Monday to discuss US efforts to reach a peace deal after Russia carried out another round of massive attacks.

The UK’s anti-immigration Reform UK party gained its first ever member of the House of Lords after a Conservative peer defected.

Ukraine said it hit Rosneft PJSC’s Ryazan oil refinery while Russian military conducted a massive attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

What began on TikTok as anger about inequality exploded into Nepal’s largest youth-led protest in decades. Wall Street Week’s Michael McKee reports from Kathmandu on how Gen-Z activists, angered by corruption, nepotism, and a sudden social-media ban, mobilized thousands, leading to deadly clashes and the collapse of the government. With similar movements in Morocco, Madagascar, Kenya and Peru, Nepal offers a look into the way social media has made comparisons across economic groups more ubiquitous, causing people to react more harshly to wealth concentration and inequality. (Source: Bloomberg)

Four protesters have been arrested after custard and apple crumble was thrown at a display case containing the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.

María Corina Machado, the laureate of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, is set to arrive in Oslo to receive her award in person on Wednesday.

Authorities in Hong Kong summoned international news organizations to a rare meeting on Saturday to warn against “false information and smear campaigns” surrounding the city’s deadliest fire in nearly eight decades and upcoming legislative elections.

Shortly after wrapping up a residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Backstreet Boys made their debut in Kazakhstan. A few weeks earlier, Jennifer Lopez had played there and in neighboring Uzbekistan. In July, Justin Timberlake sang in Azerbaijan and Georgia.

The Conservatives’ surprisingly strong stretch of fundraising under Kemi Badenoch is the latest sign that the British opposition party is finding its footing more than a year after its cataclysmic election loss to Labour.