Palestinians vote in municipal elections
Palestinian local elections give some Gazans a chance to vote for the first time in years

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta CAIRO/RAMALLAH, April 25 (Reuters) - Palestinians were voting in local elections on Saturday that include Gaza for the first time in two decades and will gauge the political mood at a time when Israel's government is seeking to destroy any future for a Palestinian state. The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority hopes the symbolic inclusion of the Gazan city

Mamdani’s city-run grocery plan draws pushback from local bodegas, supermarkets
King Charles III, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to meet next week

King Charles III is expected to meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) next week as part of the king’s trip to the U.S., The Hill confirmed Friday. The two leaders will meet for a wreath-laying ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum on Wednesday. Politico reported that former New York Mayor Michael…

Falklands
Falklands tells ‘bully’ Trump to back off

The Falklands government has rebuked Donald Trump and told him the islands are British after the Pentagon drew up proposals to support Argentine claims over sovereignty. The US is reviewing its official position on the islands as a means to punish the UK for failing to support its war with Iran. Islanders and Sir Keir Starmer condemned the move, wh...

EU to move forward with negotiations over Ukraine's membership - report
EU to move forward with negotiations over Ukraine's membership - report

European Union leaders at a summit in Cyprus agreed that the first negotiations for Ukraine to join the bloc could start in the coming weeks and months, Bloomberg News reported, citing an EU official. The progress follows Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's defeat in the parliamentary election this month. Hungary previously blocked Ukraine's pa...

Northeastern U.S. Governors and Canadian Premiers meet in Boston
Maine governor rejects first US state freeze on new data centers

April 24 (Reuters) - The Democratic governor of Maine, Janet Mills, on Friday vetoed a bill that would have made it the first ​U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers, even as local ‌opposition to the electricity-hungry facilities grows. If it had been signed into law, the bill would have frozen approvals until October 2027 for data centers requiring more than 20 megawatts ​of

Friedrich Merz
Merz: Immediate EU membership for Ukraine 'impossible'

“It is clear that immediate membership for Ukraine is, of course, impossible,” Merz said after a summit of EU leaders in Nicosia, Cyprus, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported. Merz said he wants to “ensure closer integration” of Ukraine into European institutions. As an example, he suggested Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could be al...

India knocks disparaging post shared by Trump
India knocks disparaging post shared by Trump

Officials in India knocked a recent post shared by President Trump online that referred to the country as a “hellhole,” dismissing the characterization as “obviously uninformed, inappropriate and in poor taste.” Trump shared a multipage transcript from an episode of conservative commentator Michael Savage’s talk radio show, in which Savage was railing against the constitutional…

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