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(PA Media) A meeting will be held shortly regarding Glasgow’s bid to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games. The Scottish Government and the chair of Commonwealth Games Australia are expected to discuss the proposal within 72 hours. Australian authorities have pledged “a multi-million pound investment” to finalise Glasgow’s bid to save the 2026 Games. It comes […]

Germany on Saturday criticised Azerbaijan for not allowing members of parliament into the country ahead of the UN climate conference due to be held in Baku in November. Azerbaijan is set to host the next UN climate conference from November 11 to 22, but Baku has imposed entry bans on 76 lawmakers from the Parliamentary

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s right-wing opposition party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, accused the pro-European Union government of acting against the country’s interests and breaking the law on Saturday, addressing a rally of several thousand supporters in the capital. Kaczynski also called on supporters to be active on a social and political level and

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s constitutional court on Saturday upheld the landslide victory of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in last weekend’s elections, after he and his two opponents had questioned. The court said it had examined local voting data to resolve questions about irregularities raised by Tebboune’s opponents in two appeals on Monday. “After verifying the

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s constitutional court on Saturday upheld the landslide victory of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in last weekend’s elections, after he and his two opponents had questioned. The court said it had examined local voting data to resolve questions about irregularities raised by Tebboune’s opponents in two appeals on Monday. “After verifying the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Catholic Church is adding a new member to its ranks of the “blessed” with the beatification of the Reverend Moisés Lira. The beatification ceremony took place on Saturday at Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupeled by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, who was appointed for the occasion by Pope Francis. Before Lira,

Russia has again carried out drone strikes on targets across Ukraine overnight, using some 70 unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram on Saturday. He said that the Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Odessa, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Kherson, Kharkov and Donetsk regions, as well as the Greater Kiev region, were the targets of the

South Sudan’s government is holding an emergency cabinet meeting, hours after announcing that long-delayed national elections will be postponed by two years. The elections were scheduled to take place in December. A 2018 peace deal that ended the civil war allowed President Salva Kiir to remain at the head of a transitional government, with his

Thousands of people have gathered in eastern Uganda for the funeral of Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set on fire by her ex-boyfriend and later died. Dickson Ndiema attacked her with petrol less than two weeks ago outside her home in neighbouring northwestern Kenya, close to where she was training. The murder of

Palestinian doctors reported on Saturday that at least 11 people were killed in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike hit a family home. According to doctors at a Gaza hospital, the victims included four children and three women. The attack reportedly hit a house in the Tuffah neighborhood. The information could not be independently verified