One of the brains behind Donald Trump’s far-right movement, Steve Bannon, was released from prison Tuesday after spending nearly four months behind bars, throwing another wildcard into the United States election, just a week away. Bannon left a federal prison in Connecticut where he was serving time for a contempt of Congress conviction and immediately took to the airwaves to …

A series of attacks on ballot collection boxes across the United States is ratcheting up the pressure on state and local officials, who are hoping to oversee a safe and peaceful presidential election, both for early voting underway across much of the country and for when millions of Americans go to on 5 November. The Northwest U.S. state of Washington …

President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that Iran did not seek war with Israel but was ready to deliver “an appropriate response” to strikes this week on Iranian military sites. “We do not seek war but we will defend the rights of our nation and country,” Pezeshkian told a cabinet meeting, adding: “We will give an appropriate response to the …

Israel launched multiple air strikes on Iran in the early hours of Saturday, in response to what the Israeli military called “months of continuous attacks” from Tehran and its proxies. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says Iran has been “relentlessly attacking Israel” since 7 October 2023. The IDF’s confirmation of strikes on Iran followed earlier reports by Iranian state media …

Donald Trump’s campaign has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party of “blatant foreign interference” in the U.S. presidential campaign after some volunteers travelled to help campaign for Kamala Harriss. The Republican candidate’s camp has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, calling for an investigation into what it termed illegal contributions from Labour to the …

A drone was yesterday launched by Iran-backed Hezbolla towards the private residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the coastal town of Caesarea, his office has said. “The prime minister and his wife were not at the location, and there were no injuries in the incident”, a statement said. It came after the Israeli military said three drones were …

The lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition candidate Venancio Mondlane, who ran for president in 9 October elections, was gunned down in Maputo on Saturday. The lawyer, Elvino Dias was killed with another candidate, Paulo Guambe, from the Podemos party backing Mondlane. Two gunmen shot up their car while it was immobile on a road in the centre of the capital, …

The newly appointed leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, has been killed in a gun battle in Gaza, less than two months after assuming leadership of the Palestinian group. Sixty-year-old Mr Sinwar was one of the masterminds of the 7 October attack that left several persons dead in Israel. The Israeli military confirmed on Thursday that Mr Sinwar, who assumed leadership …

Former President Jimmy Carter has voted in the 2024 election, the Carter Center confirmed. Carter, the oldest living president, voted by mail on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Carter Center. The chairman of the organization and the former president’s grandson, Jason Carter, said in a text message on Wednesday that his grandfather’s ballot had been deposited at a …

A former Minister of Justice in Alberta, a province in Western Canada, is to be sanctioned after the provincial law society determined he “undermined respect for the administration of justice” when he phoned Edmonton’s police chief after receiving a traffic ticket. The Law Society of Alberta cited Kaycee Madu last year for the 2021 call, which occurred while he was …