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Feb 8, 2026 - World

Former culture minister Jack Lang resigns from Arab World Institute in Paris and is also subject of tax investigationJack Lang, a former French culture minister, has resigned as head of Paris’s prestigious Arab World Institute after revelations of his past contacts with the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the launch of a financial investigation by French prosecutors.The 86-year-old resigned on Saturday night before he was due to attend an urgent meeting called by the French foreign ministry to discuss his links to Epstein. Continue reading...

Feb 8, 2026 - World

As Bangladesh heads towards the February 12 general election, the spotlight falls on the Awami League, the party that first came to power after the country was liberated in 1971.

Feb 8, 2026 - World

Longtime aide has said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for advising PM to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassadorUK politics live – latest updatesMorgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, has quit his role as the prime minister’s closest aide amid anger over his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador.His position had grown increasingly untenable as pressure on Starmer mounted over the scandal, which followed the release of emails underlining the extent of Mandelson’s relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...

Feb 8, 2026 - World

Exit polls point to public endorsement of new prime minister on day of blizzards and freezing conditionsJapan’s conservative governing party is on course to dramatically strengthen its grip on power after exit polls predicted a landslide victory in Sunday’s elections, in what will be seen as an early public endorsement of the new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi.The Liberal Democratic party (LDP) was projected to win between 274 and 328 seats out of a total of 465, according to an exit poll by the public broadcaster NHK, well above the 233 it needed to regain the majority it lost in 2024. NHK projected a supermajority for the LDP and its junior coalition partner, the Japan Innovation party, which will ease Takaichi’s legislative agenda. Continue reading...

Feb 8, 2026 - World

Arrests follow discovery on Friday of magistrate and her mother in a garage in south-east of countryFrench authorities have arrested five suspects after a magistrate and her mother were held captive last week for about 30 hours in a cryptocurrency ransom plot.Four men and one woman were detained, three overnight and two on Sunday morning, the Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran told Agence France-Presse. Continue reading...