Ismail Kadare, who has died aged 88, was Albania’s most successful writer, both at home and abroad. In Albania, over a million of his books have been sold; one for every three Albanians. Abroad he was best known in France, where his work was first appeared in translation, and to where he defected in 1990; […]
The Taliban asked Western leaders to look past its harsh edicts on Afghan women, including banning them from education and working, as they reached Doha for the first ever dialogue with the international community on Sunday. Amid mounting criticism of its exclusion of Afghan women at the talks, the Taliban urged that the harsh conditions […]
WARSAW (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who will be NATO’s next secretary-general, was criticised by other European Union leaders at a summit for his opposition to joint EU funding of defence projects, Poland’s prime minister said on Friday. Defence was high on the agenda at a European Union summit in Brussels that started […]
George Galloway has faced criticism for “blatant homophobia” after saying he doesn’t think that gay relationships are equal to heterosexual relationships. In a clip from an interview with Novara Media, the Rochdale MP said: “I don’t want my children prematurely sexualised at all, I don’t want them taught that some things are normal when their […]
Rishi Sunak was criticised after attempting to mock Sir Keir Starmer’s stance on “defining a woman” after the Commons had heard the mother of murdered transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was watching from the gallery. The Labour leader condemned the British prime minister’s remark, with a chorus of opposition backbenchers calling out: “Shame.” The exchange took […]