The incoming government is to create three additional minister of state roles, bringing the number to a record high of 23. New laws to allow for the increase are expected to be brought forward in ...

Thailand’s prime minister has revealed she got a call from an AI system, demanding money in the voice of another famous head of government. Paetongtarn Shinawatra did not reveal who the computer ...

Anika Wells will enter cabinet, and Amanda Rishworth will become NDIS Minister in a cabinet reshuffle. Katy Gallagher will also pick up the government services portfolio and Dr Anne Aly will ...

UK treasury and anticorruption minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned over a flurry of media reporting about her links to corruption charges being faced by her aunt, the deposed Bangladeshi former ...

A Kenyan government minister has alleged that the country's national intelligence agency was behind the abduction of his son last year, as criticism against the rising cases of abductions continues.

The cabinet is composed of ministers, each of whom must be either a TD or senator, and has a minimum of seven and a maximum of 15 members. The taoiseach, tánaiste and minister for finance must be ...

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Siddiq, whose aunt is the south Asian country's former prime minister, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing - a claim Prime Minister Keir Starmer's standards adviser Laurie Magnus seems to support.

A few of the potential candidates to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau do not currently have a seat in the House of Commons — but that would not prevent them from being sworn in if they win ...

Prominent diplomat and president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) based in The Hague Nawaf Salam has been named as Lebanon’s new prime minister. Salam was asked to form Lebanon’s ...