Month: October 2022

Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was unexpectedly escorted out of Saturday’s closing ceremony of the Communist party congress in Beijing, as the gathering reaffirmed President Xi Jinping’s continued predominance in running the country. Hu, 79, was sitting next to current Xi when he was approached by a steward who repeatedly tried to lift him from […]

ROME — Giorgia Meloni smashed Italy’s highest glass ceiling when she was sworn in as the country’s first female prime minister on Saturday, but she isn’t sharing her power with many other women. Meloni’s list of ministers contains just six women out of 24, or 25 percent, compared to her predecessor Mario Draghi’s cabinet which […]

Russian missile strikes hit energy infrastructure in central and western parts of Ukraine Saturday morning, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine’s air force said in a statement that Russia launched a “massive missile attack” at 7 a.m. local time, targeting “critical infrastructure in different regions of the country.” The […]

Hungary’s government supports the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland and has submitted the ratification documents to the National Assembly, Minister Gergely Gulyás told reporters at a briefing on Saturday. Gulyás, chief of staff to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, said the expansion of NATO to include the two Nordic countries would be ratified by mid-December […]

Monica Prasad is a professor of sociology and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is the author of Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution. Behind the implosion of British Prime Minister Liz Truss lurks a question. If her insistence on huge tax cuts doomed her, does […]

Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sunday secured an unprecedented third term as general secretary of China’s Communist Party, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. The appointment comes after a week-long party congress during which the 69-year-old leader tightened his grip over the country, making him possibly the world’s most powerful individual, according to some […]

The Group of Seven of the world’s advanced economies condemned Russia’s kidnapping of the leadership of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and called for the immediate return of full control of the facility to Kyiv. “We condemn Russia’s repeated kidnapping of Ukrainian” Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant “leadership and staff and denounce the application of other forms of […]

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made veiled comparisons on Sunday between EU institutions and the Soviet troops that attacked Hungary during the 1956 revolution, the Associated Press reported. Marking the 66th anniversary of that crushed uprising, Orbán suggested that the EU, which has sought to rein in democratic backsliding in Hungary, would end up like […]

Thousands of protesters gathered across Europe over the weekend to protest over energy prices and climate — and also to show solidarity with antigovernment protesters in Iran. Germany was the epicentre of the protests, but Brussels also saw marchers on Sunday, according to local media, as thousands of people took part in a demonstration organized by the […]