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With one MP facing the end of his political life, Campbelltown’s deputy mayor has led a surge in party enrolments over the past two years.

Departure marks stunning end to three-decade tenure of executive who built chip company into an engine of the AI boom

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the leading AI chipmaker, resigned after admitting an extramarital affair with a woman the U.S. says is a Chinese spy. This espionage tactic is known as a honey trap.

EXCLUSIVE: Female-led action-thriller Topple is launching at the AFM with cast including Spanish actors Carla Diaz (Elite) and Maria Pedraza (Money Heist), Graham McTavish (The Hobbit) and amara Feldman (Gossip Girl). Also attached to star Peter Mensah (Gladiator II), Alexis Georguoulis (My Life In Ruins) and Manny Perez (Sound Of Freedom). Additional cast a

A bank's collapse in Paraguay left millions locked out of their money, toppled the president and exposed a web of political and financial ties.

Until March 2025, impeached Paraguayan President Santiago Pena had been a business partner of the group that owns Ueno Bank.

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Jan Marsalek said he was involved in an operation that had "successfully toppled" Sebastian Kurz in 2021, in messages to a convicted Russian spy.

The US President Donald Trump has made no secret of trying to turn South America into his private backyard, but the people of one country in the region have dealt that plan a grievous blow.

<p>Russia arrived at the IMMAF World Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, with more than 60 athletes, government backing and one of the best-funded programmes in the sport. On Tuesday, a 24-year-old from Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan, beat one of them.</p> <p>Maliha Ali defeated Veronika Drozdova, a two-time European champion and, at 19, by split decision in their f

<p>Democrat James Talarico, a former schoolteacher and Presbyterian seminarian who campaigned on a “politics of love,” on Tuesday won the US Senate race in Texas, dealing a historic blow to Republicans that could reshape American politics.</p> <p>Talarico defeated the state’s attorney general Ken Paxton, a close ally of President Donald Trump who was heavily

The coalition that emerges in Johannesburg will influence negotiations in councils across South Africa. Six polls offer different scenarios for the City.

Their electoral victory is a test for whether youth protest movements can build governments that work.

<p>After two years of protests, a student-led movement has defeated Serbia’s authoritarian leader, Aleksander Vučić, at the ballot box. But can a leaderless movement govern a country? Send your comments and questions to tif.questions@theguardian.com</p><p>Serbia’s political landscape has been upended. On Sunday, record numbers of people went to the polls and

A statue of colonial figure William Crowther, toppled in Hobart's Franklin Square in 2024, has been replaced by a native garden ringed with inscribed bronze, in a project believed to be the first of its kind in Australia.

Alvin Tedjo may have started the Mississauga mayoral election as an underdog, but he has managed to beat out former mayor Bonnie Crombie and incumbent Carolyn Parrish to take over the city’s top job, CityNews projects. He won handidly, leading Parrish in second by over 20,000 votes, despite early polls showing a tight race leading […]

A student-led list won Serbia’s elections by a convincing majority, ousting the most powerful politician in the country.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged Cubans to secretly work with the CIA to topple their government.

Israel can inflict devastating damage on Iran, but analysts question its ability to overthrow Tehran’s government.