Babis's ANO movement, which won October parliamentary elections, teamed up with two eurosceptic parties to form a coalition government. In its policy statement, the coalition said the EU had "its limits" and no right to impose decisions infringing ...

With traders fully confident of a reduction Wednesday, observers said they would be keeping a close eye on the central bank's so-called "dot plot" of projections for monetary policy. They will also be poring over its post-meeting statement and boss...

The Blue House, known as Cheong Wa Dae in Korean, is named for the approximately 150,000 hand-painted blue tiles that adorn its roof and has long been synonymous with the South Korean presidency. Once occupied by representatives of former colonial ...

The SEA Games run until December 20 in Bangkok and the nearby coastal province of Chonburi, with thousands of athletes from 11 southeast Asian countries competing in events ranging from football and fencing to skateboarding, sailing and combat sport...

The accusations come after the ruling left-wing Libre party called for the vote to be annulled and accused US President Donald Trump of election interference. The ballot count had stalled over the weekend at 88.6 percent since Friday, but resumed o...

The majority of the victims of the tragedy, that struck a club in Arpora in the north of the coastal state, were staff members, including four Nepali citizens. The blaze was likely triggered by "electrical firecrackers", officials said, with most p...

The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service reaffirms that global temperatures are on course to exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels -- the threshold considered safer in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Temperatures rose by 1.48C on average bet...

After a campaign dominated by fears over crime and immigration, Jose Antonio Kast, a veteran politician and father of nine, is on course to become Chile's first hard-right leader since the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990. His opponen...

Justin Herbert, playing a week after surgery on his broken left (non-throwing) hand, withstood a career-high seven sacks to throw for 139 yards and a touchdown for the Chargers. Cameron Dicker kicked five field goals, including the 54-yard game wi...

In its annual report, the Paris-based media freedom group said the total number of journalists killed reached 67 globally this year, up from 66 killed in 2024. Israeli forces accounted for 43 percent of the total, making them "the worst enemy of jo...

Phoenix, missing top scorer Devin Booker due to a groin injury, improved to 14-10 by snapping the Timberwolves' five-game win streak with Mark Williams scoring 22 points to top six double-digit scorers for the Suns. The Spurs, still without French ...

Captain Tom Latham said there could be at least one more debutant for Wednesday's match after his side suffered several injuries in the drawn first Test in Christchurch. Seamers Matt Henry and Nathan Smith are out for the rest of the series after s...

The streak began in June 2024 when they edged Zambia 2-1 in a 2026 World Cup qualifier, with the most recent a 4-0 hammering of Uganda last month in a friendly. Spain had held the record since 2009 with 15 wins -- a mark Morocco overtook by defeati...

New Zealand welcome France on July 4 in the 12-team Nations Championship at the state-of-the-art 30,000-seat Te Kaha Stadium, also known as the One New Zealand Stadium. A magnitude 6.2 earthquake in February 2011 killed 185 people, toppled building...

The two countries have blamed each other for the renewed clashes over their century-old border dispute, which saw Thailand launch air strikes and use tanks against its neighbour on Monday. Cambodia's influential former leader Hun Sen said his count...