LONDON — A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a town in northern England with a big Muslim minority following a contest that was mired in chaos and controversy and dominated by the war in Gaza. George Galloway, 69, swept to victory in Thursday’s contest, winning almost 40% of the vote … Read more
Iranians head to the polls on Friday to elect members of the national parliament and the body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader as the country grapples with crises across multiple fronts: A spiraling economic downturn, regional tensions testing the country’s foreign policy and the fallout from mass protests sparked by the 2022 death … Read more
A salesman preparing a bag of sweets for a customer in the Sicilian confectionery shop Mazzone on February 02, 2024 in Catania, Italy. Fabrizio Villa | Getty Images News | Getty Images Inflation in the 20-nation euro zone eased to 2.6% in February, flash figures showed on Friday, but both the headline and core figures … Read more
A representative for Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said his body had not been released to relatives as planned on March 1, as mourners awaited his funeral service in Moscow. Footage released by SOTA shows the line outside the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God, where Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said the … Read more
Pig-butchering scammers have likely stolen more than $75 billion from victims around the world, far more than previously estimated, according to a new study. John Griffin, a finance professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and graduate student Kevin Mei gathered crypto addresses from more than 4,000 victims of the fraud, which has exploded … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran on Friday held the country’s first parliamentary election since the mass 2022 protests over mandatory hijab laws after the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, with questions looming over just how many people will turn out at the polls. Iranian officials and even Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei … Read more
MOSCOW — Hundreds of people gathered behind metal police barriers blocking the entrance to the church where opposition leader Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable critic, is due to be celebrated in Moscow ahead of his burial. With busloads of riot police and security trucks at the site, rights groups warned mourners of possible … Read more
Customers shop for produce at the Eastern Market in Detroit, Michigan, on Sept. 17, 2022. Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? … Read more
Fox News host Neil Cavuto cut into his network’s broadcast of Donald Trump’s speech from the U.S. southern border on Thursday to remind viewers the former president “still lost” the 2020 election to President Joe Biden. “We were doing a great job and that’s where it stood and then we had an election that we … Read more
Tensions continue to soar between thousands of striking South Korean doctors and the government, as a vast majority of the protesting junior residents have refused to go back to work on Friday despite threats of prosecution for their ongoing collective action and promises of immunity from penalty if they had quit their walkout by now. … Read more