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By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand’s prime minister-elect, Christopher Luxon, said on Monday while his party was waiting for special votes to be counted, they were working on building …

By Marek Strzelecki and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s incumbent Law and Justice (PiS) have won the most votes for a single party in Sunday’s general election, exit polls …

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s centre-right National Party will head the country’s next government after Saturday’s general election, but it will be several weeks until vote counting is finalised and …

QUITO (Reuters) – Business heir Daniel Noboa on Sunday declared victory in Ecuador’s presidential race, after his rival, leftist Luisa Gonzalez, conceded. Noboa was tallying more than 52% of the …

By Kate Lamb and Ananda Teresia JAKARTA (Reuters) -At the peak of his power but unable to contest next year’s presidential election, Indonesia’s wildly popular leader, Joko Widodo, is hedging …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said he is “confident” Israel will act under the rules of war in its conflict with Palestine, and added deploying U.S. troops is not …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday that the chamber would push through a military aid package to help Israel in its war against the Palestinian Islamist …

By Nandita Bose, Humeyra Pamuk and Steve Holland WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) – The United States is bolstering its firepower in the Middle East to prevent the spread of the conflict between …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and Israelis officials are discussing the possibility of a visit to Israel soon by U.S. President Joe Biden at the invitation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “demolish Hamas” as his troops prepared to move into the Gaza Strip in …

By Humeyra Pamuk CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return to Israel on Monday to talk “about the way forward” after several days of shuttle diplomacy between …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives will vote to choose a new speaker on Tuesday at approximately 12:00 p.m. (1600 GMT), No. 2 House Democrat Katherine Clark said …

(Reuters) – Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said the United States will suffer “significant damages” if the Gaza war spirals into a bigger conflict, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday. “We …

By Katharine Jackson and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that the Biden administration hopes to push a new weapons package for …

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) -As Israel prepared on Sunday for a ground assault on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Palestinians who have lost family members in air strikes were bracing …

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Health officials in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip have resorted to storing the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in ice cream freezer …

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday raised the national flag in the capital of the former breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after a lightning military operation last month brought …

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) -As Israel intensified air strikes on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and told residents to move south towards the border with Egypt, some like father of …

By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election team and his party said on Sunday that they raised $71 million during the latest quarter, …