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PoliticsSep 18Canadians react to EU's ‘associate member’ proposalCanadians in Vancouver reacted to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s proposal for closer ties with the European Union, including possible “associate member” status.EuroNews [en]
PoliticsSep 18Russia holds nationwide Duma elections as war in Ukraine reshapes voteRussia’s parliamentary election is under way, with voting beginning in the Far East on Friday, 18 September before spreading across the country for three days. Polls will remain open until Sunday evening, when voters will have chosen all 450 members of the State Duma.Africanews [en]
PoliticsSep 18Nigerian newspapers review: [2027] APC governors, Wike’s feud deepensIn today’s Nigerian newspapers review programme, Today in the News, Vanguard leads with the feud between the All Progressives Congress governors and Federal Capital Territory Minister, Mr. Nyesom Wike, deepening, with APC leadership in the South-East throwing its weight behind the Progressive Governors’ Forum, demanding full party support for all APC candidates in the 2027 general elections. The post Nigerian newspapers review: [2027] APC governors, Wike’s feud deepens appeared first on Vanguard News.Vanguard Nigeria
PoliticsSep 18Russia holds nationwide Duma elections as war in Ukraine reshapes voteRussia’s parliamentary election is under way, with voting beginning in the Far East on Friday, 18 September before spreading across the country for three days. Polls will remain open until Sunday evening, when voters will have chosen all 450 members of the State Duma.EuroNews [en]
PoliticsSep 18State Duma candidate for Russia’s Green Party Yulia Kuznetsova disappears in MoscowYulia Kuznetsova, a State Duma candidate for the Russian Ecological Party “The Greens,” stopped answering calls on the evening of September 17, according to the project Slovo Zashchite (Word to the Defense).Meduza [en]
PoliticsSep 18US will see sense on EU-Canada deal, Irish finance minister saysCanadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will join a gathering of EU finance ministers hosted by Simon Harris in Dublin Friday.Politico Europe
PoliticsSep 18Mahua Moitra alleges discrimination against Muslim bureaucratsTrinamool MP writes to National Commission of Minorities alleging Muslim IAS, IPS officers were excluded from Union Government events in West BengalThe Hindu
PoliticsSep 18Hearts Meet Along a Shared Path: Indonesian Rural Officials Explore Rural Revitalization in YunnanKUNMING, China , Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from China Report ASEAN: A group of Indonesian rural officials arrived in China on September 9 for a week-long study tour to Kunming, Xishuangbanna, and other parts of Yunnan Province as part of the 2026 Indonesian Rural Officials Training Program, also known as the sixth "Village Heads Class." The program is giving participants a close-up look at China's experience in rural revitalization, grassroots governance, distinctive local industry development, and efforts to benefit farmers and boost rural incomes. Hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia and organized by Yunnan Minzu University, this program brought together more than 20 Indonesian village officials and relevant staff. The opening and welcome ceremony drew officials from relevant Chinese and Indonesian departments, faculty and student representatives from Yunnan Minzu University, and media representatives, including those from CICG Asia-Pacific. Grassroots officials from China and Indonesia engage in a dialogue at the village library in Manzhao Village Group, Xishuangbanna Prefecture (Photo: Xie Wen) Wang Xiangang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, said Yunnan—once a key battleground in China's fight against poverty—has marked a historic milestone by eradicating absolute poverty. The province has bolstered safeguards against a return to poverty, refined mechanisms that connect farmers with industry and share development benefits with them, advanced highland agriculture with distinctive local features, and built labor service brands that help rural workers find stable employment. It has also sent numerous village-based work teams, upgraded rural infrastructure and living conditions, and cultivated rural long-stay tourism. Together, these efforts have provided Yunnan with extensive experience in rural development. Today, the province is the world's leading flower producer, its coffee, blueberry, and avocado industries are flourishing, and its agricultural exports have long outpaced those of other western provinces and regions in China. Wang Xiangang noted that Yunnan and Indonesia enjoy deep historical ties: Yunnan is the birthplace of the great Chinese navigator Zheng He. Friendly exchanges between the two sides—and people-to-people exchanges in particular—have gained strong momentum. In science and technology, Yunnan helped build Indonesia's first waste gasification power plant and deepened cooperation on vaccines and coffee breeding. In agriculture, the two sides partnered on an organic rice project that has significantly raised local grain output, with follow-up projects on photovoltaic lighting and organic farming upgrades in the pipeline. Overall, bilateral cooperation rests on a solid foundation and has produced fruitful results, with broad prospects ahead. Ruan Chaoqi, Party Secretary of Yunnan Minzu University and Director of Yunnan Training Base for Ethnic Minority Cadres, expressed his hope that the program will help Indonesian participants strengthen their governance capacity and overall competence—and, in turn, contribute more to the comprehensive strategic mutual trust between China and Indonesia. Such people-to-people exchanges and experience-sharing, he noted, will bolster connectivity, deepen cultural exchange, and bring the two peoples closer, creating more opportunities for high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. On behalf of Yunnan Minzu University, he also hoped that more Indonesian officials and young students would choose Yunnan for study and exchange, so that the two sides can learn from each other and grow together. Indonesia has more than 80,000 villages, each with its own resource endowments. Mulyadin Malik, Head of the Agency for Development and Information at Indonesia's Ministry of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions, said the Golden Indonesia 2045 Vision positions villages as key players in economic development, and Indonesia has rolled out 12 village action plans. Under a multi-stakeholder mechanism, the government, businesses, universities, financial institutions, local communities, and international development partners all contribute to rural development—particularly in food, energy, and water security, export industry incubation, digital transformation, and climate change response. These efforts have yielded substantive progress. Mulyadin Malik stressed that rural development is vital to a country's progress and future—a view both Indonesia and China share. Though separated by the sea, the two countries enjoy a long-standing friendship. On October 17, 2023, the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding in Beijing on cooperation in rural development and poverty reduction, setting up a framework for policy exchanges, experience-sharing, and capacity-building in these areas. As a concrete example of cooperation under this framework, the Indonesian Rural Officials Training Program seeks to promote mutual learning through the sharing of experience. "We look forward to learning from China's valuable experience in rural development and adapting it to the resource endowments and on-the-ground needs of Indonesian villages before putting it into practice," said Mulyadin Malik. He hoped that this program will help Indonesian rural specialty products access the Chinese market, strengthen village economies, expand business networks, and improve the well-being of rural communities—ultimately helping build a mutually beneficial partnership between the two countries. The Joint Statement Between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Indonesia on Advancing the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and the China-Indonesia Community with a Shared Future, issued in 2024, explicitly states that the two sides will expand cooperation in poverty alleviation and reduction, agriculture, and rural revitalization, jointly promote agricultural and rural modernization, and steadily improve the well-being of both peoples. Launched in 2019, the Indonesian Rural Officials Training Program has held six sessions to date, giving more than 100 Indonesian village heads firsthand exposure to rural development in China. After returning home, participants tailored what they had learned to local conditions, yielding a set of cooperation projects that are substantive, replicable, and scalable. Their efforts have helped make mutual learning on grassroots governance a regular feature of China-Indonesia exchanges, turning the program into a signature "small yet beautiful" cooperation project under the Belt and Road Initiative—one closely tied to people's livelihoods and highly exemplary—and earning high praise from the heads of state of both countries. During the field trip, participants visited Haiyan Village to see rural revitalization in action; explored Luosiwan International Trade City and Dounan Flower Market to learn about trade and specialty industry growth; and traveled to Xishuangbanna, where they got a firsthand look at the local coffee industry, a new business model built on the joint development of three villages, intangible cultural heritage preservation, and digital agriculture bases. They also examined how specialty industries boost rural incomes, how ethnic culture is preserved and passed on, and how new rural business models take shape. Through exchanges with grassroots officials and staff, they gained firsthand insight into China's approach to rural development. On September 13, grassroots officials from China and Indonesia engaged in a dialogue at the village library in Manzhao Village Group, Menghai County, Yunnan Province. There, the Chinese hosts presented the Indonesian guests with books as study materials, including the English edition of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (Volume V) and Up and Out of Poverty . Through this program, the two sides hope to deepen experience-sharing in rural development, strengthen market connectivity, and advance coordinated capacity-building. In doing so, they aim to inject fresh momentum into rural cooperation under the China-Indonesia comprehensive strategic partnership.en_prnasisa · bahrain
PoliticsSep 18ECB's Lagarde keeps door open to early exitEuropean Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Friday kept the door open to leaving her post early replying well see when asked if she would remain in the position until her term ends in October 2027 I leave in 2027 Lagarde told Irish national broadcaster RTE in response to a question on rumours of her early resignation that have persisted for most of this yeardevdiscourse · india
PoliticsSep 18‘I Don’t Want To Be A God Father’, Alex Otti Vows To Retire From Active Politics After TenureHe called for an end to what he described as the practice of political leaders remaining in power indefinitely The post ‘I Don’t Want To Be A Godfather’, Alex Otti Vows To Retire From Active Politics After Tenure appeared first on Channels Television.Channels TV
PoliticsSep 18CBFC’s new film certification guidelines: Statutory warning for scenes on drug useThe Ministry of Information and Broadcasting notified the revised guidelines on September 16, 2026, under the Cinematograph Act.The Hindu
PoliticsSep 18Daniela in Miami and Daniel in Africa, the deportation of a trans woman: “I dressed as a man to survive”A Cuban immigrant has had to change her appearance after falling into ICE's hands. The Trump administration has eliminated rights for these people in detention.El País
PoliticsSep 18First time in India: Open top bus takes ministers in procession to Cabinet meeting in MangaluruWhile Cabinet meetings are normally held in the State capital Bengaluru, the Chief Minister shifted the venue to Mangaluru on the request of Health Minister U.T. KhaderThe Hindu
PoliticsSep 18Elections to 7,405 primary cooperative societies to be held in first phase in T.N.Elections for 7,405 primary cooperative societies are scheduled to take place in their first phase in T.N. This indicates a significant local electoral process is underway.The Hindu
PoliticsSep 18Why the ICC is cracking down on ‘fake news’ as Duterte trial loomsAs Rodrigo Duterte’s crimes-against-humanity trial looms, an international tribunal faces the challenge of managing a sprawling prosecution case around the health of an 81-year-old former president of the Philippines, on top of shielding the proceedings from a highly charged media environment. Those pressures came into focus at an International Criminal Court (ICC) status conference on Wednesday, when Presiding Judge Joanna Korner urged prosecutors to trim their witness list and evidence ahead...South China Morning Post
PoliticsSep 18Regularise services of Mecca Masjid, Shahi Masjid employees: Nampally MLA Majid HussainThe employees work 365 days a yearThe Hindu
PoliticsSep 18Mamdani fills in NYC’s 200,000th pothole after pledging ‘blitz’New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has marked the repair of the city’s 200,000th pothole of the year on Troutman Street in Bushwick.The Independent World
PoliticsSep 18Aznar accuses Sánchez of "treason" and asks to "deploy" the Army in CeutaFeijóo avisa en Melilla de que "Ceuta es un polvorín" y promete "una reacción" si él Gobierna LeerEl Mundo
PoliticsSep 18EU allocates EUR 3.3B to Ukraine for defense needsToday, the European Commission is disbursing EUR 3.3 billion to Ukraine for the procurement of weaponry – specifically drones and missiles – under the EUR 90 billion loan support program for Ukraine.Ukrinform [en]
PoliticsSep 18Why Autocrats Care What People ThinkRussia is staging an election that matters to almost no one — except President Vladimir V. Putin and his inner circle.NYT World
PoliticsSep 18Why the Kremlin fears even the ‘managed opposition’ in RussiaThe risk of a protest vote was too high at the Duma elections so a pre-election crackdown was carried out.Al Jazeera [en]
PoliticsSep 18JD Vance asked voters for ‘another chance.’ The internet made it a meme‘JD Vance begs for midterm votes’ Kamala Harris’ Gen-Z focused account posted on XThe Independent World
PoliticsSep 18Why one Monroe County voter urges you to check your registrationA Monroe County voter found her status was inactive due to an old address. She urges others to check their status before Election Day.heraldtimesonline · united states of america
PoliticsSep 18Campaign finance complaints mount in secretary of state race. What happens next?Observers were skeptical the Indiana Election Commission would take up two complaints filed against Republican Max Engling's campaign. Now the plot thickens.indystar · united states of america
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