Senegal's anti-establishment Bassirou Diomaye Faye "was certainly the most radical of all the candidates going into this election", said FRANCE 24's correspondent in Dakar, Senegal Sam Bradpiece. "One of his flagship policies involved withdrawing Senegal from the CFA Franc [ . . .] the currency used throughout West Africa- it's colonial-era currency".
The government's scheme to send asylum seekers on a one-way flight to Rwanda has become law. Here's what Yahoo readers think of it.
Do the Scottish Conservatives really want to get rid of Humza Yousaf? Vain, self-righteous and accident-prone, Scotland’s First Minister has become one of Unionism’s most valuable assets. In tabling a confidence motion against him, the Tories may be opening the door to a more competent SNP leader.
The implosion of the Scottish National Party (SNP) is fast becoming more of a popcorn fest than binge-watching Taggart. Last April, we stared open-mouthed as the police seized a £110,000 Niesmann + Bischoff motorhome from a house in Fife following the arrest of Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell, who was last week charged in connection with the embezzlement of party funds (he denies the allegations).
The lawyer who negotiated Stormy Daniels’ hush money deal told a tabloid editor who helped Donald Trump kill stories of alleged affairs “he f----d you, idiot”.
Laurence Tribe pulled no punches over what he described as a “shameful performance by the court.”
“That just brings back all those bad memories about that issue," Jim Schultz told CNN's Jake Tapper.
It is one of the highest honours bestowed by a sovereign – but the role of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is currently vacant.
It is not unusual in politics for a measure to be attacked from two opposite fronts at the same time.
“Are you on the list?” the burly man guarding the door asks.
Postmasters have called for the immediate suspension of all Post Office executives involved in the Horizon Scandal.
Melania Trump broke from first lady tradition in many ways. On her birthday, here's a look at her life and how she fared as the first lady.
The underpayments relate to people with missing information on their National Insurance records
Signs are growing that China could be readying for a showdown over Taiwan. These are the warning signs China experts closely track.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced changes that could affect millions of people across the UK
Pepper spray flying, protestors shoved to the ground, flames leaping in the background as chants of "shame on you" filled the night air. The scenes in Newtownmountkennedy in County Wicklow won't have come as much of a surprise to many. Like many of the protest sites we have visited, there is a mix of local residents - concerned about the sudden arrival of asylum seekers in their under-resourced rural location - and anti-immigration activists and "citizen journalists", from Dublin and further afield.
Prosecutors this week said their "entire case" rests on an obscure NY election-conspiracy law. Experts believe it's never before been prosecuted.
Amid 40C heat, key players from the UN gathered in a tattered compound in Rafah to hear the organisation’s most senior security official brief them on what many expect to be a traumatic and bloody few months in southern Gaza.
BERLIN — President Vladimir Putin of Russia is about to institute a rare tax increase on corporations and high earners, a move that reflects both the burgeoning costs of his war in Ukraine and the firm control he has over the Russian elite as he embarks on a fifth term in office. Financial technocrats in Putin’s government are searching for new ways to fund not just an expensive war in Ukraine but also a broader confrontation with the West that is likely to remain costly for years. Russia is all
Former President Donald Trump delivered a barrage of false claims to media cameras this week as he entered and exited the Manhattan courtroom where he is on trial on charges of falsifying business records in relation to a hush money scheme during the 2016 presidential election.
Washington Post law enforcement reporter Devlin Barrett describes the moment former President Donald Trump tried to shake his former assistant Rhona Graff’s hand in front of jurors during his hush money trial.
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