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The Tanzanian party for Democracy and Progress, commonly known as Chadema, has a long and storied history. It was founded in 1992, shortly after Tanzania adopted a multiparty system of democracy. Despite its efforts, Chadema has yet to secure an electoral victory over the ruling CCM (Chama Cha Mapinduzi) party, which has ruled the nation since it became a united republic in 1964. This year, in October, Chadema will get another opportunity when Tanzanian voters go to the polls to elect their president and members of parliament. Party chairman Freeman Mbowe has been rallying his members to forge a united front. Addressing those gathered at…

Driver crashes £100,000 Range Rover into knitting shop on London high street A Range Rover driver crashed into a sewing shop in west London leaving a trail of destruction behind. Pictures from the scene show the front of the Sewing Machine Centre on Hounslow High Street completely smashed up following the crash. The car, which are sold new for around £100,000, crashed into the front of the shop at 3.17am this morning, witnesses told Metro. Footage, obtained by Metro, shows the car speeding along the road before veering off moments later towards the shop. The moment of impact is not…

A stabbing attack in central Tel Aviv left at least five people injured on Tuesday evening, the Israeli police said, days after a previous stabbing attack in the Israeli capital wounded one person. Earlier, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres called on Israel’s security forces to exercise “maximum restraint” after they launched a major operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, a spokesman said Tuesday. Live: At least five people wounded in Tel Aviv stabbing attack

Whether threatening to end climate protection policies and slap import tariffs on European goods, or envisioning a new imperialism that lays claim to the Panama Canal and Greenland, Donald Trump has been confirming all the worst fears of many German politicians. Despite this, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz congratulated the new US president on his inauguration. Wishing him “strength and success” for the tasks ahead, he added that, “[t]ogether, we can provide crucial momentum on both sides of the Atlantic for freedom, peace and security, as well as prosperity and economic development.” But Scholz was not present in Washington, nor was Germany’s opposition leader Friedrich…

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that security forces had begun a counterterrorism operation (unverified claims) in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, just days after a ceasefire went into effect in the other Palestinian territory of Gaza. Demonstrating that the ceasefire meant nothing in pursuit of there genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry said at least two Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli strike on a built-up refugee camp near the city. An Israeli airstrike in the refugee camp last week killed three innocent people. Palestinians are being prevented…

  Two Americans held in Afghanistan were freed in return for a Taliban fighter serving a life sentence in the US, authorities in Kabul said on Tuesday. “An Afghan fighter Khan Mohammad imprisoned in America has been released in exchange for American citizens and returned to the country,” the Afghan Foreign Ministry said in a statement Mohammad was extradited to the US nearly two decades ago and imprisoned in California on drug trafficking charges. The US Justice Department at the time called Mohammed “a violent jihadist and narcotics trafficker” who “sought to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan using rockets.” He was released…

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw the United States, the world’s second largest greenhouse gas emitter, from the landmark Paris climate agreement for the second time. The move places the US among just a handful of countries, including Iran and Yemen, that are not part of the international accord. The accord calls on governments to take action to cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) and to pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 degrees to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. “I’m immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris climate rip-off,” the new president said as…

  “Corruption kills.” This is the stark message at the heart of the protests that have been taking place in Serbia for three months and show no signs of abating. The wave of discontent sparked by the Novi Sad train station canopy collapse last November has seen tens of thousands of Serbian citizens take to the streets daily, demanding political and criminal accountability for the tragedy that claimed 15 lives and seriously injured two others. The protests are growing by the day. Demonstrations, the obstruction of traffic and tributes to the victims of the Novi Sad train station canopy collapse…

  Vietnam’s birth rate sank to a record low in 2024, with the total fertility rate falling to 1.91 children per woman. This marked the third consecutive year the figure remained below the replacement level of 2.1 — and it’s happening against the background of a booming economy. The country’s population currently hovers around 100 million people. The Vietnam News Agency cited Pham Vu Hoang, deputy director of the health ministry’s population authority, as saying that the population could begin to decline by mid-century. Urban centers are already feeling the impact. Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s southern economic hub,…

Beijing sends an opening message to the economic elite in Davos. The Chinese vice premier, Ding Xuexiang, warned this Tuesday against an increase in trade tensions, considering that “there are no winners in a trade war” and has assured that Beijing is not seeking to obtain a surplus but rather to increase its imports. “Protectionism leads nowhere. There are no winners in a trade war,” said the Chinese leader in his speech at the World Economic Forum. Drawing a parallel, Ding has indicated that protectionism is “like locking oneself in a dark room. Although the wind and rain are kept…