Olaf Scholz culminated a two-day trip to the Persian Gulf region by signing a gas deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday, but the German chancellor’s mission was overshadowed by human rights concerns. Amid Russia’s halt in gas deliveries to Germany and skyrocketing energy prices in Europe, Scholz traveled to the region to […]
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ROME — Pope Francis has sent a message to Italians considering voting for anti-immigration parties, with a homily warning against “raising walls against our brothers and sisters, which imprison us in solitude.” Francis traveled to southern Italy on Sunday, as Italians went to the polls for a general election, and delivered a message that hit […]
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ROME — Italy is on course to elect its most right-wing government since World War II, after projections suggested a coalition led by Giorgia Meloni is set to take power. Italians voted on Sunday in an election that analysts predicted would usher in the far-right firebrand Meloni — leader of the Brothers of Italy party […]
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Giorgia Meloni, the favourite to lead Italy’s next government, has made no secret of her passion for fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien, whose classic The Lord of the Rings has long been a favourite of Italy’s post-fascist right – despite the British author’s distaste for extremist politics.
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A right-wing alliance led by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party looks set to win a clear majority in the next parliament, exit polls said on Sunday after voting ended in an Italian national election.
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By Fr. Alexander Schmemann Utopianism In our previous talks, dedicated to the foundations of Russian culture, we have already talked about the two paradoxes of our cultural development – about the contradictions and about the paradoxical manifestation in it of both a kind of maximalism and a kind of minimalism. And we have already said […]
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As Moscow finds itself isolated internationally, and as its arsenal has been depleted during its monthslong campaign in Ukraine, it has turned for military support to countries including Iran.
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Across Eastern and Central Europe, statues honoring Soviet troops for their role in defeating the Nazis in World War II have in recent weeks come down or been slated for demolition.
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