ZAMBIA PRESIDENT APPROVES LAW EXPANDING PARLIAMENT MONTHS BEFORE ELECTION. (PHOTO).

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 Zambia president approves law expanding parliament months before election Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema on Thursday signed into law constitutional changes that will expand the country's parliament, Reuters reported. The changes increase the number of members of parliament to around 280 from 167 currently by creating more constituencies, reserving 40 new seats for women, youth and people with disabilities, and allowing the president to appoint 11 members instead of eight previously. Hichilema, who will run for a second presidential term in the August 2026 election, said during a signing ceremony that the changes were being made in good faith and there was adequate consultation. He previously argued that some constituencies were too big for effective service delivery and should be split into smaller ones. Some opposition politicians have criticised the move to increase the number of members of parliament at a time when the country is still emerging from a protracted debt...

DONALD TRUMP REFUSES TO INVITE KEIR STARMER TO INAUGURATION IN MAJOR SNUB. (PHOTO).


 Donald Trump refuses to invite Keir Starmer to inauguration in major snub


Donald Trump has snubbed Keir Starmer by not inviting him to his inauguration because he "undermined" the

US election, Elon Musk suggested.

The President-elect broke centuries of precedent when he invited world leaders to attend next week's historic swearing-in ceremony.

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, Argentinian President Javier Milei, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and Hungarian President Viktor Orban have all been invited to the showpiece event on January 20.


Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, a friend of Trump, is among a number of high profile rightwing politicians to have received an invitation, including Jair Bolsonaro, the former President of Brazil.


But Sir Keir won't be attending next Monday with a visit to the White House more likely in the coming weeks.

The PM joins Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and EU President Ursula von der Leyen on the list of leaders not to have been given an invite.

And Musk believes Labour "interferance" in the run-up to November's US election has played a part in the Prime Minister's absence from the Washington extravaganza.

The Trump campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission into alleged "blatant foreign interference" after it emerged up to 100 Labour Party staff campaigned in the US for Democrat candidate Kamala Harris.


Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister's chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, Downing Street director of communications, were both named in the complaint.

In a social media post on X, Musk suggested this was the real reason as to why Sir Keir had not been invited.

Musk was responding to a post by @|kennect who questioned why the PM hadn't been invited to the inauguration when 12 other world leaders had and what this does to UK-US relations.

"He sent operatives to America to undermine the US election!",Musk wrote.


Downing Street today confirmed that the PM hasn't been invited and that the UK will be represted by Britain's current US Ambassador Dame Karen Pierce.

Top Trump ally Musk has slammed Sir Keir for running a "tyrannical police state" and urged other parties to take power.

In one post, Musk asked if "America should liberate the people of Britain."


Although no head of a foreign country has ever attended a presidential inauguration in the United States, the president-elect decided to break the tradition after he won a second term in November 2024.


His team explained the move as an avenue to "create a dialogue with leaders of countries that are not only allies but also our adversaries and competitors."

Invitations have been extended to several major global powers and key US allies, including China.

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