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WASHINGTON: With the November 3 midterm elections less than a month away, the battle for Congress is beginning to look less like a conventional contest between Democrats and Republicans and more like a referendum on Donald Trump’s second presidency — with the outcome likely to depend on whether Democrats can convert Republican disaffection into actual votes.

France’s widespread student protests, sparked by underfunded schools and broader austerity concerns, have escalated into national demonstrations and safety debates. As domestic unrest grows, external political commentary-notably inflammatory claims attributing the movement to mass migration and Islam-has shifted focus away from core educational grievances, complicating the debate over public policy and evidence-based governance.

PARIS: With millions of students in the streets demanding a future for working-class youth, Fabien Roussel is proposing a pact to change the direction of French education.

WASHINGTON: The battle lines for America’s November 3 midterm elections are now unmistakably drawn. With barely a month remaining, President Donald Trump is turning the contest for control of Congress into a personal referendum on his presidency, urging Americans to vote as though his own name were on the ballot.

There is no denying the fact Balochistan is an integral part of Pakistan. Yet numbers given by Pakistan’s Director General of Inter Service Public Relations (DGISPR) on terrorists believed to be killed, thousands of Baloch have been eliminated in extra-judicial operations by Pakistan.

NEW YORK: President Donald Trump is not on the ballot in America's November 3 midterm elections. But if the President has his way, American voters will have little difficulty imagining that he is.

Far Right and Trump loyalist Flavio Bolsonaro secured 47 per cent of the votes polled on October 4 first round beating the Left Wing President Lula Da Silva who got 45.1 per cent of the votes. Since no contesting candidate crossed the requirement of 50 per cent of the votes, the run off will be taking place on October 25 to decide the next President just by a simple majority.

NEW YORK: America is heading toward the November 3 midterm elections in an unusually unsettled political mood. Voters are worried about the price of almost everything, the cost of borrowing, gasoline and utility bills, wars abroad, immigration, jobs and the disruptive possibilities of artificial intelligence. And increasingly, they are asking a simple question: Is the country moving in the right direction?

NEW YORK: As the United States enters the final month before the November 3 midterm elections, both parties are confronting an increasingly fluid political landscape. Republicans hold the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, but history has rarely been kind to governing parties in midterm years. Democrats, meanwhile, are searching for signs of a comeback after the setbacks of 2024, encouraged by improving voter registration trends and a political environment that appears more competitive than many expected a year ago.

Aviation circles in the West have started questioning how an Omani citizen could have been cleared for a flight from UAE’s Dubai to Tel Aviv in Israel. The possible 9/11 type of crash would have been the result of such a security lapse.