Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said upcoming elections should be a “lesson” to the United States, his most explicitly anti-western comment of the campaign so far as he tries to consolidate nationalist support ahead of the vote.
South Africa’s government exempted the state power utility from reporting irregular spending for the next two fiscal years.
A pro-business opposition group unseated Prime Minister Sanna Marin in Finland’s close parliamentary elections, paving the way for tough wrangling to form a new government in the northernmost euro area member.
Economists are divided over whether the Reserve Bank of Australia will raise interest rates for an 11th consecutive meeting or pause its most aggressive tightening cycle since 1989 amid cooling economic momentum.
China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang urged Japan to refrain from supporting US efforts to suppress the Chinese semiconductor industry, while his counterpart pressed for the swift return of a Japanese citizen detained by Beijing.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi urged his Chinese counterpart to quickly release an employee of Japanese drugmaker Astellas Pharma Inc. detained in China.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin lost to a pro-business opposition group in the Nordic country’s close parliamentary elections.
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin was projected to lose in the Nordic country’s close parliamentary elections.
A pro-Kremlin military blogger was killed by a bomb hidden inside a figurine at a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia’s interior ministry said. Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, supported the war in Ukraine.
Kenya’s main opposition agreed to suspend protests planned for this week and said it would enter talks with the government over its demands for electoral reform and steps to reduce the cost of living.
