Australians have begun voting in the country’s federal election, where the conservative coalition government is widely expected to hold power. The prime minister and opposition leader delivered their final pitches to voters on Friday after a marathon eight-week campaign. The UK’s decision to leave the EU appears to have benefitted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. But Labor Party leader Bill Shorten ...

Bangladeshi troops have cleared a cafe in the capital Dhaka where gunmen took at least 20 hostages, including foreigners. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said 13 hostages were freed and six attackers shot dead. One of the gunmen was arrested, she said. Some of those who were held at the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe were believed to be Italian and Japanese. ...

Argentine football legend Diego Maradona on Monday urged Lionel Messi not to follow through on his vow to quit the national team after its defeat in the Copa America Centenario. “Messi has to stay in the national team. He has to stay because he still has playing days ahead of him,” Maradona was quoted as saying by La Nacion newspaper ...

Hal Robson-Kanu scored a sensational goal as Wales came from behind to stun Belgium 3-1 in Friday’s Euro 2016 quarterfinal in Lille and reach their first major tournament semifinal. Radja Nainggolan gave Belgium a 13th-minute lead, but Ashley Williams equalised before a dazzling strike from Robson-Kanu, whose contract with English second-tier club Reading expired on Thursday, and a late header ...

Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) has encouraged Zambians to vote yes in the referendum on the Bill of Rights. CSO-SUN Acting National Coordinator Eneya Phiri says Zambians should vote yes in the referendum because the bill of rights has components of access to food which is a source of nutrients. Mr. Phiri says his organisation feels if access to ...

Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) president Edith Nawakwi has charged that the referendum on the bill of rights will be a sham and will not bear any fruits. Ms. Nawakwi says the referendum will not bear any fruit. She adds that the FDD will not play any part in sensitizing the people on the referendum as it is government’s ...

The governing Patriotic Front says it’s not worried or moved by opinion polls suggesting that its chances of losing next month’s elections are high. PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says this is because most of such predictions are being made by discredited researchers. Mr. Bwalya has singled out the latest prediction by political scientist Neo Simutanyi that the opposition UPND ...