Politics

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Yemen's long-running civil war has entered a new and potentially more dangerous phase, with the Iran-backed Houthi movement expanding its military reach towards one of the world's most strategically important maritime passages and Saudi Arabia launching a major counteroffensive to prevent further territorial gains. The renewed fighting has transformed a conflict that had remained relatively contained for several...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Three years after the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, many survivors and families in southern Israel are still struggling to reconcile two competing realities: the need to rebuild their lives and communities, and the enduring need to remember those who were killed or taken hostage. For people who lived through the attacks, the anniversary is not simply...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A Liberian-flagged oil tanker has been struck by a naval drone in the Black Sea off the Russian resort city of Sochi, triggering a major fire and sending a thick cloud of black smoke over parts of the coastal area, according to Russian officials. The incident has added to growing concerns over the safety of commercial shipping in...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. European Union trade negotiators are travelling to China for two days of high-level discussions aimed at finding a practical way to reduce the growing flow of relatively cheap hybrid electric vehicles into the European market. The talks come at a sensitive moment in EU-China economic relations, as several member states increasingly fear that rapidly rising Chinese exports could...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A veteran Palestinian photographer working for Agence France-Presse was beaten and injured by armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank while covering violence against Palestinian olive farmers, according to witnesses, family members and fellow journalists. Jaafar Ashtiyeh, 58, was assaulted near the northern West Bank village of Aqraba while reporting on escalating tensions surrounding the annual olive...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. More than 250,000 pupils, teachers and parents took to the streets across France on Tuesday in the largest nationwide demonstration yet over deteriorating conditions in secondary schools, as clashes between protesters and riot police intensified in several cities. The demonstrations, held in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux and other locations, were largely peaceful, but a number of marches...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Conservative party has placed education and cultural issues at the centre of its latest political messaging, with shadow education secretary Laura Trott declaring that a future Conservative government would seek to keep political activism out of classrooms. Her remarks came during the party’s annual conference, where the Conservatives are attempting to sharpen their political identity and reconnect...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. France is facing a major day of student mobilisation as thousands of high-school and university students take to the streets across the country, joined by teachers, trade unionists, public-sector workers and parents’ organisations demanding improvements to education and learning conditions. The nationwide demonstrations, which have been described as a major escalation of the student movement, are expected to...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. New Jersey congresswoman LaMonica McIver is facing a significant legal decision this week, just days after giving birth to her second child, as she considers whether to seek further review of federal criminal charges brought against her following a confrontation with immigration agents outside an immigration detention facility. McIver, 40, represents New Jersey’s 10th congressional district and gave...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Germany has arrested a former head of its foreign intelligence service on serious espionage allegations, in a case that has raised questions about the handling of classified information and the potential misuse of sensitive intelligence by a senior former security official. Federal prosecutors announced on Tuesday that August Hanning, who served as president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service,...