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The PAS-led Kelantan government abandoned a nine-year oil royalty legal battle against Petronas and Putrajaya in 2019. (Bernama pic) PETALING JAYA: Three opposition assemblymen in the Kelantan legislative assembly want the state government to revisit the issue of oil royalty claims by bringing the matter to the Federal Court. In a joint statement, Syahbuddin Hashim […]
BERLIN – Nearly three years after Russia invaded Ukraine, can another anti-war march in Europe change the political landscape in Russia? Russian opposition figures argue that it can. Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as well as prominent politicians Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza, called on their supporters to rally in […]
Mauritius’ opposition coalition – the Alliance of Change – won the country’s November 10 election by a landslide, taking all the seats in parliament. Its leader, Navin Ramgoolam, has been appointed prime minister. Mauritian politics scholar Roukaya Kasenally spoke to The Conversation Africa about what drove this outcome. What’s behind the opposition’s landslide win? The […]
“Stop Putin! Stop the war! Free political prisoners!” These are the demands that Russian opposition leaders will take to their rally in Berlin on Sunday. The plan is to march to the Russian Embassy near Brandenburg Gate, in a march co-organized by prominent Kremlin critics Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who were released from Russian custody […]
Article content QUEBEC — The federal government has no intention of giving in to a new voice opposing the Lac-Mégantic rail bypass. One of the three municipalities concerned, Nantes passed a resolution saying it is withdrawing from the controversial bypass project and that it will no longer collaborate with Transport Canada, which is leading the […]
CITY HALL — Facing widespread opposition to his proposed $300 million property tax increase, Mayor Brandon Johnson confirmed his administration is “negotiating” with alderpeople who want to see the tax hike significantly decreased or scrapped entirely. Johnson’s budget team met with 22 alderpeople over the weekend to discuss potential alternatives to the full property tax […]
Belarusian political prisoner Maria Kalesnikava has appeared in a photo with her father, in her first appearance since she disappeared from contact 21 months ago. Kalesnikava, who led huge 2020 protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, was imprisoned after she famously ripped up her passport as the Belarusian KGB tried to forcibly deport her. The 42-year-old, who […]
This photo taken on February 15, 2024, shows an aerial view of the Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea. (Photo by JAM STA ROSA / AFP) MANILA, Philippines — The Chinese government reaffirmed its opposition to the Philippines’ new maritime law on Sunday as it delimited and declared Beijing’s “baselines” of the territorial sea […]
The Libra arrived at the port of Shengjin, northern Albania, with six Egyptian nationals and two people from Bangladesh, the interior ministry told AFP. This came after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government passed a new law to overcome legal opposition to the scheme. The 2023 deal calls for migrants intercepted by state vessels within Italy’s […]
The widow of anti-Kremlin activist Ildar Dadin, who was killed fighting for Ukraine last month, accused the Freedom of Russia Legion of burying her late husband without her permission and suggested that members of the pro-Kyiv paramilitary group may have covered up the cause of his death. Dadin had fought alongside the Ukrainian armed forces […]