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The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the perpetual battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country — but it may have come too late to have much of an effect on this year’s midterm elections.The 6-3 ruling…

By&nbspIoannis Karagiorgas&nbspwith&nbspAFP Published on 01/05/2026 – 10:46 GMT+2•Updated 12:27 Dozens of activists on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla which was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters near Crete disembarked on Friday in the Greek island. Escorted by Greek coast guards, some 175 activists were taken in four buses to a…

New York (AP) — Amazon on Wednesday reported strong increases in profits and net sales during its fiscal first quarter, helped by surging growth in its prominent cloud computing unit.The e-commerce and technology company said that sales in its cloud computing unit were up 28% in the January-March period, the…

Published on 02/05/2026 – 12:00 GMT+2 Russian attacks are continuing to target cities across Ukraine as the Kremlin shows no signs of letting up and peace efforts appear to have stalled as the ongoing US-Israeli war in Iran continues to occupy global priorities. Ukrainian officials say a barrage of Russian…

United States prosecutors have brought charges against Mexico’s Sinaloa state Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine current and former officials, accusing them of links to the Sinaloa drug cartel in a move that could strain relations between the two countries.An indictment unsealed on Wednesday in New York alleges that Rocha…

A pro-immigration group has submitted a complaint to Elections Alberta, claiming the province’s new referendum website wrongfully uses taxpayers’ money to campaign in favour of one side.Avnish Nanda, the Edmonton lawyer who helped create the group, called Our Alberta Advantage, says the Alberta government website is written in a way…

Competitiveness and innovation are at the core of Ursula von der Leyen’s second mandate as chief of the European Commission. Recent developments, such as proposals for new business-friendly legal frameworks like the 28th regime and repeated calls for deregulation, have raised concern among some observers, who argue that workers’ rights…

Freedom of the press around the world has fallen to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, according to the leading Paris-based press freedom NGO, Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without Borders.Every year, RSF publishes a World Press Freedom Index used to compare the level of freedom…

About 120,000 drones pledged by the UK, alongside additional funding for PURL and the Czech ammunition initiative, were announced at a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Berlin on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The 34th gathering of the group took place at Germany’s defence ministry, co-hosted by the German…

Hungary’s Prime Minister-designate Péter Magyar said on Wednesday that the country’s president had assured him in a meeting that his new government could take power in the first week of May, an accelerated timeline for the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16-year reign. Following Magyar and his centre-right Tisza…

The incoming president faces serious security issues in the north of the country and challenges to living standards.Benin’s Minister of Finance Romuald Wadagni has secured a landslide victory in the country’s presidential election with more than 94 percent of the votes, according to provisional results.Sacca Lafia, head of the country’s…