Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is fending off a challenger fueled by Donald J. Trump’s election lies. But do voters still care about 2020 as much as the former president does? Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you…
The top Senate Republican traveled to Europe in a bid to show that isolationism hasn’t taken over his party. He has privately lobbied his colleagues to vote that way, and so far, most are. Send any friend a story As…
If approved, Lt. Gen. Michael E. Langley would become the first Black four-star Marine Corps officer. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
Nato HQ on the outskirts of Brussels. Sweden and Finland joining Nato would mean eight out of nine Baltic Sea countries being members of both Nato and the EU, with only Russia outside both organisations (Photo: Wikimedia) The Russian invasion…
The CSTO, a military alliance of Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Georgia is meeting in Moscow next week to discuss Ukraine (Photo: kremlin.ru) The leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), including Russia, Kazakhstan,…
Artistic events bring people together, overcoming divisions and barriers, and as such, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an “undisputed element” of the European shared cultural identity, which could this year help renew the call for peace on the continent,…
The meeting is meant to reinvigorate the crisis response as vaccination and testing rates lag and many countries try to put the pandemic behind them. President Biden convened a virtual Covid summit from the White House last fall, on the…
The EU’s strategy resulted in disastrous global vaccine scarcity outside Europe during 2021, which prolonged the pandemic and caused far too many preventable deaths (Photo: Jernej Furman) It’s long overdue that the European Parliament starts its hearing of the Special…
Are you using it, or is it watching you? The Israeli-made Pegasus spy software has been used against politicians, journalists and human rights defenders around the world (Photo: The Council of the European Union) In mid-December 2021, 60 MEPs sent…
Hong Kong protests in 2019 (Photo: Studio Incendo) On Sunday (8 May), a band of hand-picked Beijing loyalists coronated Chinese mainland marionette, John Lee, as Hong Kong’s next chief executive in a one-horse race for the city’s top job. Chosen…