Michigan's El-Sayed targeted by Republicans in midterms race: Will the religion card work?
What in the name of political free speech is off limits? Can you say whatever you want on the campaign trail, no matter how false or racist...
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20 of 100 episodesWhich way will Israel break? Netanyahu still in it after election night surprises
In Israel, the surprises only start with election night. They're still counting ballots in a vote that featured the highest turnout in decad...
Bibi's moment of truth: Israel votes in first general election since October 7 attacks
The turnout tells the tale. Israelis are casting ballots in their largest numbers in decades in the first general election since the October...
Comeback kid: How did Brazil's veteran leader Lula upset Bolsonaro?
Just two days shy of his 81st birthday, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has emerged as the comeback kid. Coming from behind in the polls...
Back to the Bolsonaros? Brazil's presidential run-off goes down to the wire
Brazil's future is within the margin of error ahead of Sunday's presidential runoff: most of the latest polls put the far-right's Flavio Bol...
Europe's wave of anger: How far will youth-led protests go?
Youth-driven protests have been popping up all over Europe: in Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania, Serbia and Greece. The spark here i...
AI on the ballot? Voters in US midterms revolt against data centres
Two weeks out from the US midterm elections, there's bipartisan pushback against data centres that suck the water and power out of communiti...
Out of control? France stunned by October 17 rioting
France didn't just erupt on Saturday – it exploded. Police were doubly overwhelmed by the turnout of the October 17 cost-of-living demonstra...
Will Trump really pull the plug? Starlink restored but Ukraine's fate still uncertain
Can a flick of a switch really be enough for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to end Ukraine's hopes of holding out against Russia? With Kyiv alre...
How far will 'Cockroach' movement go? India's youth-led protests defy Modi government
It all started as a bit of online satire by a few young people fed up by corruption. Clearly though, the "Cockroach" movement is no longer a...
France's fed-up youth: Can presidential candidates connect with student movement?
Will it be autumn recess to the rescue for a beleaguered French government? Ministers are no doubt counting the days until the school holida...
How exposed is Saudi Arabia? Yemen's Houthis scale up drone and missile attacks
How exposed is Saudi Arabia? Just as Iran's retaliation to Donald Trump's war suddenly exposed the vulnerability of neighbouring Gulf states...
Black Sea and black ops: How exposed is Europe to Ukraine war spillover?
The story is as underreported as it is consequential for the entire planet. Three Turkish-owned cargo ships out of Ukraine have been hit in...
No longer the same Israel? October 7 and the future of the Jewish State
For now, it's still Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel. In 2023, in the immediate aftermath of the country's worst day of bloodshed in its history,...
France erupts over schools: Why the violence surrounding surprise movement?
It’s a protest movement that a broke, lame-duck French government did not see coming. Civil servants this Tuesday joined high schoolers who...
Return of the Bolsonaros: Why the far-right surge in Brazilian elections?
Do voters care about attempted coups? Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro is on the cusp of unseating Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the country's Octob...
Will AI write our books? Row over bestseller fuels fear over future of literature
France still very much takes its literary prize-giving season seriously. So when a Haitian-born Canadian writer was accused of infusing his...
Ethiopia back to civil war? Horn of Africa fears spillover effect of renewed fighting
After contagion in the Arabian Peninsula, should the entire Horn of Africa fear a domino effect? Just as US President Donald Trump’s decisio...
Still the same far right? Le Pen's National Rally denies fresh anti-Semitism claims
A minor bump on the French far right's road to power, or a car crash that wipes out years of rebranding? Bombshell allegations of past anti-...
Leo the moderate? Pope in France defends EU values
There's a new pope in town and he's got very different ideas on what France's far right calls the defense of Christian civilisation. Leo XIV...