Tunisia's President named Raoudha Boudent Ramadhane as nation's first woman Prime Minister, appointing her to lead a transitional government after her predecessor was sacked.
President Kais Saied named Ramadhane, a professor at a prestigious engineering school, to the PM's post in a surprise decision.
Fumio Kishida to Become Japan's Next PM
Fumio Kishida won a race to lead Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), putting him on course to become the next Prime Minister of Japan.
Mr. Kishida will succeed Yoshihide Suga, who decided to step down after just one year in office.
His first mission as Prime Minister will be to lead the LDP to victory in an upcoming general election.
The party's popularity fell after it pushed to host the Tokyo Olympics despite public opposition.
Mr. Kishida, a former Foreign Minister, beat out Taro Kono, who was widely regarded as the most popular candidate.
Given the LDP's majority in parliament, Mr. Kishida's position as Prime Minister has been all but cemented.
Sep 29, 2021
Singapore's Population Sees Biggest Fall in 70 Years
As per official data, the total population in Singapore has shrunk by 4.1% to 5.45 million in June 2021, indicating the sharpest fall since the government began collecting such data in 1950.
For the second consecutive year the city-state saw its population shrink and the third time it witnessed negative growth since 1950, according to an official annual population report.
Iceland Misses Out on Europe's First Female-majority Parliament
Iceland's claim of electing Europe's first female-majority legislature was retracted due to a miscalculation after the centrist ruling coalition added to its majority.
While initial data showed that some 33 of 63 seats in Iceland's parliament, the Althingi, were won by women in the ballot, it later emerged that a handful of votes had been miscounted, affecting the distribution of so-called "compensatory" seats. This means there will be 33 men and 30 women in parliament.
The change doesn't affect the overall distribution of seats showing Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir's bloc, which unites three parties from left to right, boosted its representation by two to a combined 37.
Three Polish Regions Scrap Anti-LGBT Resolutions
Three Polish regions voted to scrap resolutions that declared them free of "LGBT ideology".
It comes after the European Commission threatened to pull funding.
The resolutions were first passed in 2019, with local authorities viewing campaigns for gay rights as an attack on traditional, Catholic values.
Almost 100 other regions passed similar anti-LGBT resolutions that year, drawing ire from the EU, which said that it violated discrimination laws.
The European Commission later urged five large regions to scrap them. If they were kept in place, the commission threatened to block up to €126m ($147m) in funding for their local governments.
In response, Podkarpackie, Lubelskie and Malopolskie cancelled their declarations, following the lead of another region, Swietokrzyskie, which did so last week.
Sep 28, 2021
UAE Picks New Finance Environment Ministers
United Arab Emirates Prime Minister and Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced ministerial changes.
Sheikh Mohammed's son and the current deputy ruler of Dubai, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Mohammed bin Hadi Al Husseini replaced long-serving Obaid Humaid Al Tayer as the Emirates' minister of state for finance, while Maryam Al Muhairi became the minister of climate change and environment.
Afghanistan, Myanmar Will Not Address UN General Assembly
Afghanistan and Myanmar did not address the UN General Assembly's high-level General Debate.
According to the latest list of speakers for the last day of the high-level General Debate of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, Afghanistan and Myanmar were not listed as speakers to address the session.
Afghanistan representative inscribed on the list for the debate was H E Mr Ghulam M. Isaczai.
Sep 27, 2021
Centre-left Wins against Merkel's Party
According to preliminary results, Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have narrowly won the country's federal elections, beating the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The SPD secured 25.7% of the vote, while the ruling conservative bloc gained 24.1%.
The Greens achieved the best result in their party's history, coming in third with 14.8% of the ballot.
SDP leader Olaf Scholz earlier said his party had a clear mandate to rule, as his party started to edge into the lead.
Exit polls predicted a dead heat, but this election has been unpredictable from the start, and the result was never going to be the end of the story. For one thing, the outgoing chancellor is going nowhere until the coalition is formed - and that may have to wait until Christmas.
The successor's task is to lead Europe's foremost economy over the next four years, with climate change at the top of voters' agenda.
Sep 26, 2021
N. Korea Rejects South Korea's Calls for End-of-war Declaration
North Korea rebuffed South Korea's push for a declaration to end the 1950-53 Korean War as a way to restore peace, saying that such a step could be used as a "smokescreen covering up the U.S. hostile policy" against the North.
In a speech at the U.N. General Assembly earlier this week, South Korean President Moon Jae-in reiterated his calls for the end-of-the-war declaration that he said could help achieve denuclearisation and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Ri Thae Song dismissed Mr. Moon's call as premature so long as U.S. policies were unchanged.
Biden Administration Implores Iran to Return to Nuke Talks without Delay
The Biden administration is imploring Iran to quickly return to talks on its nuclear programme after a three-month hiatus caused by its government transition, warning that the window for negotiations may soon close.
A senior administration official said that U.S. patience is wearing thin and that further delays while Iran continues to expand its atomic capabilities could lead Washington and its partners to conclude a return to the landmark 2015 nuclear deal is no longer worthwhile.
In discussions with representatives from the remaining parties to the deal Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union the official said that all of them had agreed on the importance of resuming the talks as soon as possible.
US Special Envoy to Haiti Resigns
The Biden administration's special envoy to Haiti has resigned, protesting inhumane large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland wracked by civil strife and natural disaster.
Daniel Foote was appointed to the position in July, following the assassination of Haiti's President. Even before the migrant expulsions from the small Texas border town of Del Rio, the career diplomat was known to be deeply frustrated with what he considered a lack of urgency in Washington and a glacial pace on efforts to improve conditions in Haiti.
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