KIGALI: A Rwandan court on Wednesday refused to restore opposition leader Victoire Ingabire‘s civic rights and remove her previous convictions for terrorism and genocide denial, rendering her ineligible to run in the July presidential polls.A fierce critic of Rwanda’s long-ruling President Paul Kagame, Ingabire spent eight years in prison before receiving a presidential pardon in … Read more
MOSCOW: Ukrainian bombardments killed two people and set an oil facility ablaze in Russia on Saturday, the second day of showpiece elections guaranteed to cement President Vladimir Putin’s hardline rule.Presidential polls opened this week but voting has been marred by an uptick in fatal Ukrainian aerial attacks and a series of incursions into Russian territory … Read more
LAHORE: Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan‘s party called Saturday’s election of the President of Pakistan “unconstitutional and unacceptable” and urged the people to hold peaceful protests across the country against poll robbery on Sunday. Asif Ali Zardari was elected as the 14th president of Pakistan massively beating his rival Mahmood Khan Achakzai, the head … Read more
NEW DELHI: Former US President Donald Trump had asserted that Israel would not have been attacked if he were still in power and promised to swiftly resolve the situation if re-elected in the presidential polls scheduled later this year. Trump’s remarks came after his victory in the Iowa caucuses, solidifying his position as the front-runner … Read more
ROZHDESTVENO: The Communist Party of Russia, the second largest party in parliament, on Saturday selected a 75-year-old to stand next March in presidential polls against Vladimir Putin.At a party congress in the Moscow region, the members held a single-candidate vote backing Nikolai Kharitonov.He won just under 14 percent of the national vote when he stood … Read more