Politics

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online In a historic and unexpected victory, 34-year-old state legislator Zohran Mamdani has won New York City’s mayoral election, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo, a candidate backed by both the political establishment and former President Donald Trump. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, becomes the city’s first Muslim immigrant mayor and the youngest in over a century, sending reverberations across...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organisation in the United States, has filed a federal lawsuit against Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, challenging Abbott’s recent designation of the group’s Texas chapter as a “foreign terrorist organisation.” The move has drawn sharp criticism from civil rights advocates, Democratic lawmakers,...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Venezuela’s political crisis has taken a dramatic turn as the nation’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has been warned that she will be considered a fugitive if she travels abroad to accept her Nobel Peace Prize. The announcement by Venezuela’s Attorney General, Tarik William Saab, has added a new layer of tension to an already volatile political...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online As the COP30 climate summit unfolds in the Amazonian host city of Belém, global attention has turned sharply toward India, the world’s third-largest carbon emitter, and the only major economy still holding back its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The delay has prompted mounting questions from diplomats, environmental groups, and analysts who fear that the world cannot...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online WhatsApp messages have revealed how Nathan Gill, a former MEP for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party and later leader of Reform UK in Wales, took bribes as part of a pro-Russian influence campaign in the European Parliament. Gill, who faces prison, was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews supporting a key Putin ally and to make...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The circumstances leading to the Welsh government’s decision to impose a Covid-19 lockdown across Wales during Christmas 2020 were “inexcusable,” according to Baroness Hallett, chair of the UK public inquiry into the pandemic. In a video statement accompanying the publication of the inquiry’s second report, Hallett criticised Welsh ministers for failing to take “decisive action” against an...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Kate Forbes, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, has admitted that motherhood has proven to be more challenging than serving as Scotland’s deputy first minister. Balancing a demanding political career, a young family, and a lengthy weekly commute to Edinburgh made her decision to step back from politics inevitable. Speaking to BBC Scotland, Forbes emphasized that nothing,...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Northern Ireland’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic was deeply flawed, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has concluded, describing the region’s response as “chaotic” and hindered by political disputes, leaks, and inconsistent decision-making at Stormont. According to the inquiry’s second report, chaired by Baroness Heather Hallett, the devolved executive, designed to foster collective decision-making across communities, often struggled to...

Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The long-awaited report into the UK government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has painted a damning picture of Boris Johnson’s leadership, describing a “toxic and chaotic” culture at Number 10 Downing Street that seriously undermined decision-making during the early and critical stages of the crisis. Chaired by Baroness Hallett, the inquiry lays bare how poor communication, erratic...

  Published: 21 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Senior US military officials have arrived in Kyiv this week for a high-profile visit aimed at assessing the situation on the ground and discussing strategies to end the ongoing war with Russia, amid rising tensions and concerns from European allies about Moscow’s intentions. The delegation, led by US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and accompanied by top...