(Bloomberg) — Venezuela’s opposition refused to seal a pact proposed by President Nicolás Maduro to force candidates to recognize the results of the July 28 presidential election, raising tensions between the parties ahead of the vote. Most Read from Bloomberg Maduro endorsed on Thursday the agreement with seven little-known candidates. Opposition’s hopeful Edmundo González had […]
(Bloomberg) — A Delhi Court granted bail to the national capital’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, two weeks after elections were concluded in India. Most Read from Bloomberg “We have faith in the court. Kejriwal gets bail. Truth wins,” said senior party leader Bhagwant Mann on social media platform X. In May, the Supreme Court had […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Arvind Kejriwal, an Indian opposition leader and New Delhi’s chief minister, was granted bail on Thursday by a court in the capital, after he was arrested in a bribery case in March, local media reported. Kejriwal, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, or Common Man’s Party, was arrested in March, […]
MONROE — Education groups across the state have united to change school funding. On May 16, 2024, a group of 13 organizations, including the Michigan Education Association, AFT-MI, Michigan Alliance for Student Opportunity, Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators, and many more jointly addressed a letter to members of the Michigan legislature that demanded a […]
Russia has dropped 103 bombs on its own territories in the last four months, Astra reported. This comes after the outlet wrote that three more FABs were found in Russian villages near the border. One independent Russian analyst suggested that these are accidents caused by cheap guidance kits. Russian opposition media channel Astra reported on […]
Power lines lead into the coal-fired Intermountain Power Plant on March 28, 2016 outside Delta, Utah. The IPP generates more then 13 million megawatt hours of coal-fired energy each year to Utah and Southern California. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images) The Intermountain Power Agency has new deadlines to submit a notice to decommission its coal […]
Australia’s opposition party on Wednesday announced plans to build the nation’s first nuclear power plants as early as 2035. The party argued the government’s policies for decarbonising the economy with renewable energy sources, including solar, wind turbines, and green hydrogen, would not work. The policy announcement ensures the major parties will be divided on how […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is due to make her electoral debut, potentially strengthening the opposition’s challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in parliament after he was humbled in a recent election, politicians and analysts said. The family has long been the glue holding factions of the main opposition Congress […]
A controversial $200 million proposal to build hundreds of homes between Elm Lane and Rea Road in south Charlotte received unanimous approval from city council, despite push back from some residents in the Piper Glen area. In March, residents packed a city council meeting to oppose the Sutherland project from RK Investors and brought up […]
South Africa’s former president, Jacob Zuma, has said his political party – uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) – will join the opposition alliance in parliament. He said it would co-ordinate resistance to the governing coalition led by the African National Congress (ANC). Despite this, MK said it maintained that last month’s elections were rigged and wanted the […]
Jun. 16—The pressure is on New Mexico’s freshman congressman leading up to the November general election as the GOP seeks to expand its majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and reclaim a seat that has flipped back and forth between Democrats and Republicans in recent years. Considered one of the most competitive House races […]
A Venezuelan presidential candidate said Saturday that three opposition activists were detained arbitrarily ahead of July elections in a campaign marred by allegations of political persecution. “They have been missing since yesterday… It is an unjust and arbitrary detention,” said Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the largest opposition coalition in Venezuela. […]