Politics

Published: 12 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A new anti-migrant protest movement has emerged in Britain with a highly organised and confrontational style, prompting concern among politicians, civil rights campaigners and researchers who monitor far-right activity. The Patriot Platform, led by Daniel Thomas, has rapidly attracted attention through masked street demonstrations, social media livestreams and tightly coordinated protests targeting immigration and asylum seekers. The movement...

Published: 12 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Nearly 50,000 civilians have been displaced by a rapid advance by Houthi forces along Yemen’s western Red Sea coast, according to humanitarian workers, as renewed fighting threatens to push the war-torn country into another prolonged period of conflict. The sudden offensive has emptied entire villages, separated families and left communities close to frontline areas struggling to obtain food,...

Published: 12 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Saudi Arabia has temporarily halted operations on a strategically important oil pipeline after authorities said several drones launched from Iraqi territory targeted the facility, causing injuries and damage. The incident has added fresh pressure to an already fragile regional energy and security situation, with Saudi Arabia increasingly relying on the pipeline to transport crude oil while the Strait...

Published: 12 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Sweden is heading into one of its closest elections in recent history, with the outcome potentially reshaping the country’s political direction and determining whether the far-right Sweden Democrats enter government for the first time. The parliamentary election, taking place on Sunday, comes amid an exceptionally tight contest between the country’s left-leaning and right-leaning political blocs, with the latest...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Andy Burnham has been urged to revive a financial support scheme for students from poorer families, with Trades Union Congress general secretary Paul Nowak arguing that the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance created a serious barrier for young people trying to remain in education after the age of 16. The call comes as the issue of young...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement has seized the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha, dramatically expanding its control along the country's western coastline and bringing the group closer to the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, one of the world's most important maritime chokepoints. The capture of Mokha, also spelled Mocha, represents one of the Houthis' most significant territorial advances since...

Hong Kong Activists Jailed Over Tiananmen Vigils Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Three prominent Hong Kong democracy activists who helped organise annual vigils commemorating China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms, marking another major development in the city's continuing national-security crackdown. Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, was sentenced to seven years in prison, while Chow Hang-tung, 41, received seven years...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Abhijeet Dipke was an ordinary graduate student in Boston just a few months ago. Today, the 30-year-old activist is one of the most recognisable faces of a new generation of Indian protest politics, after a satirical campaign sparked by a controversial remark about unemployed young people evolved into a national movement and helped force a senior cabinet minister...

Published: 11 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A Russian drone strike on a shopping centre and surrounding commercial area in the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad has killed five people and injured 67 others, including eight children, Ukrainian authorities said, in another deadly attack on civilian areas as Russia's war against Ukraine continues. The attack struck the centre of Pavlohrad in Dnipropetrovsk region during the daytime,...

Published: 10 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Nearly a decade after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed how Facebook user information could be harvested and exploited for political purposes, the social media company is facing a major trial in New Mexico over allegations that it failed to protect hundreds of thousands of residents from misuse of their personal data. The case, which opened in Santa Fe,...