Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated President Jair Bolsonaro in a runoff election on Sunday (30 October) that marked a stunning comeback for the leftist former president and the end of Brazil’s most right-wing government in decades. Brazil’s Supreme…
The European Union signed an agreement with Egypt on Sunday (30 October) for the first phase of a €80 million border management programme, a statement from the EU delegation in Cairo said, at a time when Egyptian migration to Europe…
A new administration in Somalia has launched an offensive against Al Shabab, which are also facing an uprising from local militias. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can…
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force”[1] – this quote from George Orwell is timeless and is clear across many modern tyrannies and autocracies, especially Putin’s Russia, now…
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman arranged thousands of robocalls that prosecutors said were intended to discourage residents of minority neighborhoods from voting by mail in 2020. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to…
With a possible winter surge on the horizon, the president tried to draw attention to the retooled shots, which Americans have been slow to receive so far. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
After Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s stroke in May, the campaigns agreed that questions and statements will also be displayed on large monitors. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
“Reality is setting in”: With two weeks to go, Republicans are competing in Democratic bastions like New York, California, Oregon and even Rhode Island. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
God bless Liz Truss! As confusing as this may sound – after all, she just resigned last week – her short and inglorious reign in Downing Street has offered salutary lessons to the rest of Europe. There is no question…
Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni insisted that her government would be at the core of the EU in a speech on Tuesday (25 October) that played down her party’s euroscepticism and links to the far-right. In her first major…