Syrian government forces set to re-enter Sweida province
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The U.K. government secretly relocated thousands of Afghans
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The Israeli leader has been alienating his allies and is spiraling toward early elections.
The United Kingdom could become one of the first European countries to lower the voting age to 16 in all national elections, in what the government is calling a landmark effort to “future-proof” its democracy.
Japan's shaky minority government is poised for another setback in an upper house vote on Sunday, an outcome that could jolt investor confidence in the world's fourth largest economy and complicate tariff talks with the United States.
Lowering the voting age across the UK means around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election.
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The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget outlines a broad effort to reshape federal priorities and operations. Key proposals include reducing the federal workforce, keeping defense spending flat,
Ukraine's parliament appointed the country's first new prime minister in five years on Thursday, part of a major cabinet overhaul aimed at revitalising wartime management as prospects for peace with Russia grow dim.
A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday denied a request by government attorneys for a stay of her ruling last week barring immigration agents from detaining people without reasonable suspicion
The leader of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has welcomed scrutiny from the government after it issued the authority with a best value notice. The measure, taken by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), encourages authorities to demonstrate continuous improvement.
The result isn’t more abundance; it’s cronyism masquerading as climate policy.
An agency-by-agency look at how President Donald Trump and his advisors plan to dramatically shrink the federal government.
Parliament approved Yulia Svyrydenko as Ukraine's new prime minister on Thursday and backed her plan to cut the number of ministries, merging some of the main portfolios, to save funds in wartime.