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The United Nations Special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, regretted that during two years of frozen front lines, the international community had not seized upon the window provided by that relative calm to build a credible political process. “We need to be honest about the mismatch between the scale of…

India warned that linkages between proscribed outfits such as Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed and provocative statements by other terror groups pose a direct threat to the region’s peace and stability

Belarus is an outlier, as the last European state to maintain the death penalty. And, with a recent amendment, they’re doubling down.

That alderpersons would reject a pay raise is probably hoping against hope. But turning down some or all of the hike would be the right thing to do.

Her retirement is part of a mass exodus that promises to change the face of the Chicago City Council. Hairston is the ninth Chicago alderperson to either resign or announce a decision not to seek reelection. Several others, including indicted Ald. Edward Burke (14th) and Zoning Chair Tom Tunney…

The man who would be Mayor of  Auckland has already had a stint as a mayor in the Far North - voted out comprehensively after council ructions and an Auditor-General's report

The mum slammed her local council after she found the garden of her new home full of glass and rubble

A special hearing will have arguments for and against the development close to the Dunmore Pineapple

Councillors agreed to use £1.2m left over from last year's budget for cost of living support.