After being massively repudiated in Tuesday’s midterm election, Donald Trump has become a lame-duck president with significantly curtailed authority. What is likely to happen in the remaining two years until a new
Elections across France, Italy, Spain, Poland and other major European countries are set to test whether surging nationalist and populist movements can turn growing support into lasting political power, as mainstream parties
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Five men have been arrested near RAF Fairford in the UK over suspected explosives and terrorism offences, after three suspicious vans were spotted travelling towards the US-used airbase. Counterterrorism police are examining
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Oil prices rose sharply in Asian trading on Monday after US President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume nuclear negotiations with Washington. The move
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More than 70,000 people gathered in Mexico City’s Plaza de la Constitución on Sunday, September 27, as President Claudia Sheinbaum concluded a nationwide accountability tour launched after she presented her constitutional Second
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Brazil’s overseas electorate has reached a record 918,876 registered voters ahead of the country’s presidential election on October 4, according to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). The voters, spread across 134 countries,
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Israel’s upcoming election is being closely watched across the Middle East, where neighbouring governments and regional powers expect the result to affect security, diplomacy and the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Prime
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Iran has maintained its seven-day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, refusing to soften its conditions as President Donald Trump sends mixed signals over whether Washington is prepared to reach a
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In May 2026, three United Nations Special Rapporteurs issued a warning to the Indian Government, stating that the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls might endanger democratic participation.
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Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
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Germany’s postwar democratic stability is often attributed to a constitution designed to prevent another Weimar collapse. But Weimar already had powerful tools to defend democracy, which political institutions often failed to use
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Singapore’s success was built on a compact city-state, a strategic port, concentrated population, state-controlled housing, tightly coordinated institutions and deliberate social engineering. Sri Lanka, with its rural economy, agricultural regions, established ethnic
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The planned withdrawal of nearly all remaining US troops from Iraq by the end of September is leaving Washington’s Kurdish allies facing what the prime minister of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region describes
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End Times Fascism argues that the real danger is not simply the return of twentieth-century fascism, but the emergence of a politics that treats planetary crisis as inevitable, profitable and even desirable.
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The international system is undergoing a period of structural change in which technology, geopolitical competition and the shifting economic centre of gravity are interacting to weaken established patterns of Western dominance, according
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A senior official in Vladimir Zelensky’s office allegedly struggled to explain how a modest declared salary could coexist with luxury purchases and tens of thousands of dollars in monthly cash payments, according
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