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The anti-fascist forces in Germany felt a big relief after the Sunday’s crucial elections to Brandenburg region showed that the beleaguered ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) narrowly beat the surging far right party AFD defying all opinion polls about the AFD’s imminent victory. The SPD got 31 per cent as against AFD’s 29 per cent while the left leaning BSW got 13 per cent and the Christian Democrats 11 per cent.

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in on Monday as the ninth President of Sri Lanka in the first election since its economic collapse in 2022. marking a historic moment as the country’s first leftist head of state. The 55-year-old Dissanayake is the leader of the Marxist-leaning Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party.

The recent explosion of thousands of pagers across Lebanon is an alarming development that bears the hallmarks of Israeli involvement, potentially signalling an imminent military escalation between Israel and Hezbollah. This tension has been mounting since Hezbollah’s recent engagement with Israeli forces, a direct response to Israel's intensified military actions against Gaza following the deadly October 7 Hamas-led attack. The strategic aim behind targeting Lebanon's pagers is clear: to cripple Hezbollah’s internal communications, a vital component of its military operations.

Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau is facing one of the toughest challenges in his nine years in power so far. Early this month, Jagmeet Singh’s New Democratic Party (NDP) withdrew support to Trudeau’s minority government. Now, Trudeau is likely going to face a no confidence motion from the opposition soon. And, in order to survive Trudeau will have to seek new alliances.

LONDON: When Keir Starmer scrapped the Tories’ disastrous Rwanda deportations deal within days of assuming office, there was a sigh of relief. Many welcomed what seemed to be a decisive shift away from the previous government’s strategy of using relentless cruelty toward people migrating to distract from their failures to govern.

Once dubbed a royal sport, elephant killing seem to have rebounded after decisions of banning hunting in several countries, if the decision of Zimbabwean government to cull it's elephant population is anything to go by. It is in response to a severe draught highlighting the intersection of environmentalism, human survival and wildlife management.

Since Wednesday India's rightwing YouTubers are having a blast (no pun intended) making reels on pagers exploding on the persons of Hezbollah cadre, killing scores of them and maiming more of them, generally seen as a terror group but cast as an army of self-righteous "freedom fighters", with goals that include ridding the world of Jews, especially the country of Israel.

LONDON: Following Israel’s murderous exploding-pager stunt in Lebanon, Labour’s Emily Thornberry is asking questions every Cabinet minister should answer. It is all very well for the Foreign Office to call for “calm heads and de-escalation” every time Israel bombs or assassinates people in neighbouring countries.

As Bangladesh navigates the current turmoil, the path to economic recovery seems increasingly difficult, requiring prompt and decisive action from the interim government to bring stability and restore confidence among both the public and investors.

LONDON: A bleak picture of Britain as “the sick man of Europe” — with almost three million workers suffering long-term illness — has been presented in a damning new report. The report, published on September 15 as part of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)’s Commission on Health and Prosperity, warns the country’s problem of long-term illness has reached “historic proportions.”