Politics News Stories
Slovak PM in life-threatening condition after being shot
BRATISLAVA, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a life-threatening condition after being shot in Handlova, Slovakia's Trencin...
photo: AP / Petr David Josek, File
Cannes kicks off with a Palme d'Or for Meryl Streep
Beneath intermittent rainy skies, the Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday with the presentation of an honorary Palme d'Or for Meryl Streep and the unveiling of Greta Gerwig's jury, as the French Riviera spectacular kicked off a potentially volatile 77th edition.A 10-day stream of stars began...
photo: Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP / 2024 Invision
Georgia’s pro-EU Generation Z spearheads ‘foreign agent’ protests
For 20-year-old Georgian student Irakli, the almost nightly trip to protest outside parliament is part of a wider struggle where he and his generation have a special role to play. For weeks, the international relations student and his classmates have joined the huge crowds protesting against a draft...
photo: AP / Zurab Tsertsvadze
No, Japan’s actually not a xenophobic country
The other day at a fundraiser, Joe Biden made a casual comment that I consider to be the worst gaffe of his entire term as president. He declared that two of America’s most important allies, India and Japan, are “xenophobic”, and placed them in the same category as Russia and China: “You know, one...
photo: Creative Commons / 内閣官房内閣広報室
EU member states give final approval to stricter migration reforms
Kyiv: EU ministers on Tuesday gave their final approval to a massive overhaul aimed at tightening the bloc’s migration and asylum laws that had been years in the making. EU officials had been at pains to wrap up the migration reforms ahead of European elections scheduled for June. The issue...
photo: © European Union 2024 - Source : EP
Trump’s hush-money case has proven he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal?
When you set out to explore Donald Trump’s personal life and business practices, you don’t expect to meet any paragons of virtue. Sleazy media figures who buy and “kill” damaging stories? Yes. An adult film actor ready to tell all to make a buck? Certainly. A parade of spokespeople and staffers who...
photo: AP / Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool
Blinken in Ukraine to assure US support amid new Russian offensive
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in an unannounced diplomatic mission to reassure Ukraine that it has American support as it struggles to defend against increasingly intense Russian attacks. The visit comes less than a month after Congress approved a long-delayed...
photo: Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP / AFP or licensors
Putin to meet Xi in Beijing as world convulses from global conflicts
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will welcome Vladimir Putin to China on Thursday for the Russian president’s second visit in less than a year – the latest sign of their growing alignment amid hardening global fault lines as conflict devastates Gaza and Ukraine. Putin will arrive in China just over a week...
photo: AP / Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File
The case for optimism
We are living in an era of anxiety – or as Jonathan Haidt, the US social psychologist calls it in his latest book, a “generation of anxiety”. From the global financial crisis to the climate emergency, from Covid to the cost of living, from the war in Ukraine to the conflicts in Israel/Gaza: each of...
photo: AP / Cristobal Basaure
Hungary is helping Europe kiss decoupling goodbye
With the visit of Xi Jinping to Paris and Budapest last week, it’s clear that Europe and China are not breaking up—and that France and especially Hungary are keys to a productive relationship. Behind the Chinese president’s visit to these two EU capitals, some analysts have suggested a sinister...
photo: AP / Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, file

photo photo