Source: The Globe Post Fatmata and Abu Bakar were trying to reach safety. They’d been on the move for months – from Sierra Leone to Greece, where they had hoped to obtain asylum. Instead, told to leave Greece but with no legal or financial means to travel, the couple decided to make their way along […]
Source: Washington Post Listen 5 min Comment on this storyComment Gift Article ANKARA, Turkey — World leaders congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday as the country’s election board confirmed that the 69-year-old had won a close and bitterly fought presidential election, ensuring that his divisive tenure at Turkey’s helm would extend into a […]
Source: World | NTD PARIS—The famously fickle Paris crowd made themselves heard on the opening day of the French Open, booing when Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands after her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on Sunday. Stefanos Tsitsipas, the runner-up in Paris in 2021, was later dragged into a dogfight by […]
Source: Europe – Voice of America Newly elected Greek lawmakers were sworn in Sunday but the Parliament in which they sit may be dissolved as early as Monday, ahead of fresh elections on June 25. No party achieved an overall majority in the May 21 election, which was held under simple proportional representation. The ruling […]
Source: All Content from Business Insider A quiet but intense battle is raging near Kherson, which Ukraine recaptured from Russia last year. The fight is happening along the Dnipro River, which divides Ukrainian and Russian-held territory. The 73rd Naval Center of Special Operations appears to be leading the effort for Ukraine. Loading Something is loading. Thanks […]
Source: FOX News : World Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday declared victory in the presidential election, capping off a close race and extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade. Erdogan’s victory comes on the heels of high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities. Speaking from on […]
Source: Foreign Policy Among the rites of passage of the millennial generation was the rediscovery, for some, of Karl Marx. Many left-populist movements that emerged across the Western world after the Great Recession of 2008, such as Occupy Wall Street, channeled their intellectual energy into engaging with the 19th-century German thinker’s work—specifically, Marx’s canonical text […]
Source: The Daily Beast Latest Articles Prior to the beginning of its final season, HBO’s Succession was lauded as the latest in a long line of iconic television shows, spearheading the new generation of TV’s golden era. It was looked at as a natural successor— if you will— to other sublime shows of the last […]
Source: Foreign Policy U.S. President Joe Biden has said the world is at an “inflection point” in a “battle between democracy and autocracy.” Biden maintains that the United States’ free-market, democratic system can continue to deliver, but others suspect that China’s autocratic, state-led capitalist model may be superior. Which side is correct? To find an […]
Source: World News Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the challenger to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday’s runoff election, is hardening his stance on refugees in a last-ditch effort to win over voters after underperforming in the first round. While polls showed center-left Kilicdaroglu leading the conservative Erdogan, Erdogan ended up coming in first in the May […]