NewsFeed US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse sharply criticised President Donald Trump for previously attempting to block a House vote on the release of files related to Epstein. Trump on Sunday dropped his opposition and the measure now is expected to overwhelmingly pass. Published On 18 Nov 202518 Nov 2025…
US President Donald Trump has called on House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files, in a reversal from his previous position. “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday night. The major shift in Trump’s stance comes as potentially…
Latvian MPs have voted to withdraw from an international accord aimed at protecting women from violence, including domestic abuse, after a long and intense debate in parliament. Several thousand people protested against the vote this week in Riga. It is now up to President Edgars Rinkevics to decide whether to approve the law or not….
Cityscape and Tokyo Tower at sunset, Tokyo, Japan. © Marco Bottigelli | Moment | Getty Images Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.5% to a fresh record, after closing at an all-time high Monday. The Topix also added 0.73% to hit a record high. Broader Asia-Pacific markets also opened higher, tracking Wall Street gains, led by…
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has survived two confidence motions, just days after he appointed his new government in time to submit a draft budget to parliament in a bid to end the political turmoil that has gripped the country for months. A motion sponsored by Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and its allies…
The election in Frankfurt an der Oder, a city on the border with Poland, is between Independent candidate Axel Strasser and AfD contender Wilko Moller. Voters in the eastern city of Frankfurt an der Oder have cast their ballots in a run-off election that could give the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the largest…
Democratic and Republican leaders remain far apart on how to end the partial shutdown of the US government as another day of voting approaches on Monday. In separate Sunday interviews with NBC’s Meet the Press, the House’s top Democrat Hakeem Jeffries and its Republican leader Mike Johnson each blamed the other’s party for the continued…
Security forces in Guyana say a boat carrying election officials and ballot boxes was shot at “from the Venezuelan shore” in the contested Essequibo region. Police and the Guyana defence force said in a joint statement that the incident occurred on Sunday, ahead of the South American nation’s general election on Monday. The patrol that…
Mumbai, India – A move by India’s top election body, the Election Commission of India (ECI), to re-scrutinise nearly 80 million voters’ documents in a bid to weed out “foreign illegal immigrants” has prompted widespread fears of mass disenfranchisement and deportations in the world’s largest democracy. On June 24, the ECI announced that each of…
Negotiations among House Republicans over President Donald Trump’s megabill reached a stalemate on Wednesday, as more than a dozen rank-and-file members dug in on their opposition to the tax-and-spending package. The fate of the massive bill was uncertain Wednesday evening, as both moderates and conservative hardliners demanded changes to a Senate passed bill. Republican leaders…
