offered a sharp rebuke of political dysfunction in the United States, with the credit-rating agency

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Nobody seems to know what’s going on.” Mr Johnson resisted demands for the inquiry to be handed over to an external investigator, instead appointing Whitehall mandarin Sue Gray to complete the probe.... Our great United Kingdom is actually entirely run by a lady called Sue Gray, the head of ethics or something in the Cabinet Office.... Unless she agrees, things just don’t happen.” She is also part of the panel deciding who will be next chair of the media regulator Ofcom....

Nobody seems to know what’s going on.” Mr Johnson resisted demands for the inquiry to be handed over to an external investigator, instead appointing Whitehall mandarin Sue Gray to complete the probe.... Our great United Kingdom is actually entirely run by a lady called Sue Gray, the head of ethics or something in the Cabinet Office.... Unless she agrees, things just don’t happen.” She is also part of the panel deciding who will be next chair of the media regulator Ofcom....

Women’s representation in the assemblies more than doubled, but the Punjab Assembly remained plagued by disruptions, a tendency to ignore input from the opposition, and hurried legislation.... Assembly proceedings in 2024 were dominated by chaos.... A ruling by the Lahore High Court declared the age-based gender distinction in the Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929 unconstitutional; however, broader legislative reform remained stalled. The report notes that workers’ rights and environmental con

？ Speaker to start verification of PTI MNAs’ resignations？ Opposition leader yet to be nominated？ All NA bodies remain incompleteISLAMABAD: The first regular session of the National Assembly after the coalition government under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took office last month is set to commence tomorrow( Monday), while Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf faces the challenge of keeping parliament functional after the mass resignations of 123 Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf( PTI) lawmakers. According to an o

You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter.... The bloc’s nations represent some two-thirds of humanity, 85 percent of all global economic output and all of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters.... Where the G-20 goes, the rest of the planet is inextricably bound to follow. That’s especially true now, as the G-20 deliberations function as a de facto precursor to next week’s United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland....

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Top Chicago Park District officials failed to initiate an investigation for months into troubling allegations of misconduct by Chicago lifeguards, an independent investigation found. Just after the release of the report, new Superintendent and CEO Rosa Escare？... “ The investigations themselves were, until recently, also hampered by unacceptable layers of incompetence.” Former Chicago Park District CEO Michael Kelly, shown in June, was faulted in a new report for not reporting misconduct allega

Vice President Kamala Harris will deepen her outreach to Southeast Asia this week at an international summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she'll try to erase doubts about U.S. commitment to the region stirred by President Joe Biden's absence.... It’s Harris’ third trip to Southeast Asia and fourth to Asia overall, and she's touched down in more countries there than any other continent.... The organization has not resolved civil strife in Myanmar, which saw a military coup two years ago and has