Politics

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Israelis gathered at memorials, cemeteries, roadsides and the site of the Nova music festival on Wednesday to mark three years since the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack, a day that killed about 1,200 people and transformed the political and security landscape of Israel and the wider Middle East. At the Nova festival site near Re’im, where hundreds of...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online London has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the world’s most attractive destinations for billionaires and other ultra-high-net-worth individuals, combining financial influence, luxury, culture and international connectivity with a tax environment that historically offered considerable advantages to wealthy foreign residents. But a growing number of departures and complaints from some of Britain’s richest people are raising questions...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Australia’s opposition Coalition is facing growing questions over the financial credibility of its newly announced immigration policy after senior MPs acknowledged that the plan has not yet undergone a full costing by the independent Parliamentary Budget Office. Coalition leader Angus Taylor has repeatedly defended the package as “budget neutral” and said the party had worked closely with the...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online France has temporarily suspended the use of stun grenades by police at high-school demonstrations after a 15-year-old protester suffered a devastating hand injury during a demonstration in the northern city of Lens, intensifying an already heated national debate over police tactics and the treatment of young protesters. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced the decision on Wednesday, saying the...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to use her keynote speech at the party conference in Birmingham to announce plans to reduce inheritance tax, while presenting the next general election as a fundamental contest over the size and role of the state. The anticipated tax announcement comes as Badenoch seeks to demonstrate that the Conservatives have a clear...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Robert Jenrick may no longer have a seat among Conservative MPs, but his departure from the party continues to cast a long shadow over the Conservatives’ annual conference in Birmingham. The former Tory leadership contender, who later defected to Reform UK, has become the subject of jokes, criticism and open political schadenfreude among Conservative members and senior figures...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Democrats are gaining momentum in several closely watched US Senate races ahead of the November midterm elections, with a new set of political projections suggesting that the party could be within reach of regaining control of the chamber. The latest assessment has placed several previously competitive contests in a more favourable position for Democrats, including races in Kansas,...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Republican Senator Susan Collins sought to draw a clear political distance from Donald Trump during a televised Senate debate in Maine on Tuesday, portraying herself as an independent voice within the Republican Party as she faces a closely contested challenge from Democrat Troy Jackson. The debate offered voters one of the clearest opportunities so far to compare the...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. US President Donald Trump has announced plans for a $6.6bn shipbuilding facility in Maryland that will be partly financed by the federal government but owned and operated by Anduril Industries, a rapidly expanding defence technology company founded by prominent entrepreneur Palmer Luckey. The announcement was made Tuesday at an unused industrial shipyard in Sparrows Point, Baltimore County, where...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. US Vice-President JD Vance has said Iran must make a meaningful reduction in its uranium enrichment capabilities if Washington is to agree to a deal aimed at ending the seven-month war between the two countries. In an exclusive interview, Vance said the United States remained open to negotiations but would not accept assurances alone from Tehran. He argued...