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PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Albanian lawmakers scuffled with guards during a parliament session in Tirana on Thursday, shouting, tugging at one another and setting off flares in the rostrum.The altercation came during a session to vote for Albania’s next ombudsman, the country’s top human rights official. The opposition Democratic Party of Albania accused the governing Socialist Party of election fraud and the erosion of democracy in the country, issues they have been protesting for months.Opposition lawmakers tugged at microphones and threw bottles at the speaker of the parliament, Niko Peleshi, as he tried to keep the vote going.Peleshi urged the…

It is hard enough staying consistent for a month in the Championship, let alone two.But that is what Coventry City managed to do, reflected by Frank Lampard picking up back-to-back Sky Bet Manager of the Month awards in October and then in November. 10 wins from 11 in total, one Halloween hoodoo at Wrexham in between. It is the big reason they find themselves five points clear at the top heading into the weekend, and 12 clear of third place. Image: Sky Bet Championship Manager of the Month for November 2025 – Frank Lampard of Coventry City “I am very…

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Dec. 10, 2025.Brendan McDermid | ReutersThe benchmark 10-year Treasury yield moved lower on Thursday as investors digested delayed inflation data that showed cooling price pressures. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell more than 3 basis points to 4.118%. The 2-year Treasury yield declined by more than 2 basis points to 3.46%. The 30-year Treasury bond yield slid more than 2 basis points to 4.80%.One basis point equals 0.01%, and yields move inversely to prices. The consumer price index rose at a 2.7% annualized rate last month, a…

Dec 18, 2025, 04:59 AM ETBruno Fernandes has insisted that Cristiano Ronaldo still contributes a lot to the national team and disagrees with those who claim that Portugal play better without him.When Ronaldo was suspended, the Portuguese cruised past Armenia in last month’s final World Cup qualifier, 9-1, to seal a place in next year’s big event.”Cristiano inside the box continues to be a very high-level player,” Fernandes, the captain of Manchester United, said in an interview with Canal 11.”He draws defenders and creates space for other players. If Cristiano doesn’t play and [Paris Saint-Germain’s] Gonçalo [Ramos] does, Gonçalo is…

CAIRO (AP) — More than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group earlier this year on the largest displacement camp in western Sudan, the U.N. Human Rights Office said in a report released Thursday.RSF stormed Zamzam camp in April as part of its siege of the city of el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur province.In the attack, hundreds of people were summarily executed, according to the report. People were killed in house-to-house raids and the main market, as well as in schools and health facilities. The report detailed patterns of sexual…

Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), gestures to speak during a budget committee session at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. Ueda said the recent pace of increases in Japans long-term bond yields is “somewhat fast,” while adding that long-term yields should be determined by the market in principle. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJapan’s central bank on Thursday kicked off its last policy meeting of the year, with expectations that it will raise benchmark interest rates to their highest in 30 years, as it…

 KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah affirmed on Wednesday that male and female personnel of the Ministry of Interior represent an honorable model in fulfilling their duties. The ministry said in a press statement that Sheikh Fahad’s remarks came in a speech marking Arab Police Day, observed annually on December 18.He stated that the Interior Ministry personnel, men and women, serve as the frontline defense for the rule of law and public order, acting as protectors of society and performing their security and humanitarian duties with sincerity-guided by the directives of His…

You do not invade Russia in winter. Napoleon learned that from the comfort of the Louvre’s heated salons, long before anyone could swipe the empress’s jewels from beneath the museum’s nose. Anyone convinced that the great European jackpot of 2025 is the glitter stolen from a display case has lost the plot. That embarrassment will fade; the real holdup unfolds in Brussels, inside council rooms where leaders who spent decades lecturing the world on the sanctity of the rule of law scheme to convert roughly 210 billion euros (US$246 billion) in frozen Russian assets into a pan-European cash machine. In…

Copper supply constraints have led to soaring prices and stockpiling in 2025 – and according to the CEO of one of the world’s largest mining firms, elevated prices aren’t likely to climb down anytime soon. Copper prices hit a record high of $11,952 per metric ton on Friday, the latest record high this year driven by supply concerns, mining disruptions and fears of U.S. tariffs . Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange ended Wednesday’s session at $11,592 per metric ton. In New York, copper futures have surged by around 34% since the start of the year, putting them on…

Twenty-five years ago, as an A-level student with a deep interest in political affairs, I recall attending a Muslim community event where a lawyer was called to the stage to deliver an impromptu presentation on the newly introduced UK Terrorism Act 2000.  He warned of the shift this new law entailed, taking anti-terrorism from the realm of emergency legislation to a primary legal framework, alongside its new focus on defining terrorism in relation to ideology, rather than conflict. This sounded chilling to me at the time, but there was also a sense of bewilderment in the room. I don’t think…