Month: September 2022

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. I think we can all agree that “thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me/Galileo (Galileo)/Galileo (Galileo)/ Galileo, Figaro, Magnifico” is the tribute that the late Queen Elizabeth II would have wanted. So hats off to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was filmed giving a rousing rendition of […]

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Stitcher Acast It’s time for the weirdest few weeks of the British political calendar: conference season. Host Ailbhe Rea takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the speeches, fringe events, champagne receptions and bad karaoke parties that happen at the annual Conservative and Labour […]

World Bank President David Malpass said in a note to staff Thursday that it is “clear” that humans are causing the planet to heat up by emitting greenhouse gases. The note, seen by POLITICO, was sent following heavy criticism of his appearance at a New York Times event on Tuesday, when he dodged repeated questions […]

ROME — The 5Star Movement appears to be staging a late comeback in Italy’s south ahead of Sunday’s snap general election, building on fears that a new right-wing government would scrap a popular welfare payment. Final opinion polls published 12 days ago suggested the right-wing coalition was on course to win a comfortable majority. But […]

NEW YORK — The United States urged Russia to end its impunity. Russia ranted about fighting Nazis. Ukraine insisted it had the right to be free. The top diplomats of the three countries appeared at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, a rare in-person diplomatic showdown since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine […]

The European Commission on Thursday pledged to enforce judicial independence standards in Hungary through the EU’s pandemic recovery funds, bowing to building pressure from inside its own ranks. The move came after a group of EU commissioners — echoing numerous MEPs and diplomats — pushed the Berlaymont to go harder on Hungary over rule-of-law issues, […]

The warning shots are getting closer and louder. In a heated parliamentary session on Thursday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz received stark signals from his coalition partners that they expect him to ramp up weapons supplies to Ukraine at what is becoming an increasingly critical inflection point of the war. While his government coalition bought him […]