Today: October 28, 2026
Today: October 28, 2026

Corruption

Crime|Economy|Europe

Hungary carries out dawn raids over COVID-era purchase of 17,000 ventilators

Hungary's tax authority has raided several locations and made arrests in an investigation into COVID-era medical mask and ventilator procurement by the Foreign Ministry.

Arts|Economy|Education|Europe

'Nobody heard us' – why Gen Z are leading protests across Europe

Maya Gourdel, a 19-year-old student in Brussels, sits at a desk writing slogans

Asia|Election|Europe|Political|World

Serbia’s victorious student movement faces tough challenges as it prepares to take power

Serbia’s youth movement pulled out a stunning election victory at the weekend against the country’s longtime strongman ruler Aleksandar Vucic

Arts|Asia|Economy|Europe

China hands former security regulator anti-graft official suspended death sentence

A Chinese court on Tuesday handed Wang Huimin, a former anti-graft official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission, a death sentence ‌with a two-year reprieve over

Uncategorized

Judge: Trump DOJ illegally fired ex-FBI director's daughter, Maurene Comey, as a federal prosecutor

A federal judge has ruled that Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was illegally fired as a federal prosecutor in New York last year

Business|Crime|Election|Finance|Lifestyle|Political

Head of Mexico's electoral authority resigns amid corruption allegations

The head of Mexico's National Electoral Institute will resign amid allegations of corruption, a decision President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that she supports.

Election|Europe

Serbia's new leaders face host of tough challenges

Serbia's student-led protest movement won a historic

Election

Brazil’s Lula completes stunning turnaround to secure election victory, as Trump ally Bolsonaro rejects result

Brazil’s Lula completes stunning turnaround to secure election victory, as Trump ally Bolsonaro rejects result

Election|Political

Who are the leading candidates in Israel's election?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long looked on course to lose power in Israel's election, but the race has narrowed as the vote approaches and his

Election|Europe|Political

Reactions to election victory of Serbia's Student List

Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election on Sunday, ending his long grip on power and heralding a new political

Arts|Education|Finance

Belgrade in rapture as Serbian students topple Vucic in historic election

Trams and traffic halted by crowds.

Arts|Election|Europe|Finance

Serbia election: Main players, voter concerns and what is at stake

Serbia is holding parliamentary elections on Sunday, in which a popular student movement is seeking to end the rule of longtime

Election|Political|US|World

Inside the Trump-administration campaign to return Brazil’s Bolsonaro clan to power

Two US State Department officials led a campaign to restore the right-wing Bolsonaro clan to power in Brazil and successfully pushed for sanctions

Business|Crime|Entertainment|Sports

Former NBA star Malik Beasley negotiating plea deal over gambling charges

Former NBA player Malik Beasley is negotiating a plea agreement with the Department of Justice after initially pleading not guilty to charges of altering his play in 2024 to benefit sports bettors and ease his debts

Europe|Political|World

Albanian police fire tear gas as anti-government student protests turn violent

Albanian riot police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who threw rocks at officers and started a fire at the door of the agriculture

Economy|Election|Political

Bolsonaro and Lula clash on living costs, corruption in final Brazil election debate

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sparred over the cost of living and traded personal attacks on Friday in the

Arts|Interview|Opinion

Lula, Brazil’s great political survivor, wins again in a deeply divided nation

Lula, Brazil’s great political survivor, wins again in a deeply divided nation

Political|World

New Zealand's top military officer resigns over 'inappropriate relationship'

The chief of New Zealand's Defence Force resigned on Friday over an "inappropriate relationship" he failed to disclose while in a position of command.

Crime|Economy|Europe

Beatings, cyberattacks and threats darken Vucic's Serbia ahead of elections

Serbian activist Marko Marjanovic was on his way back from the supermarket in Belgrade when masked officers bundled him into a car and took him to a

Americas|Crime|Political|World

Mexico levies rare treason charge against ex-official over US drug operation

Mexican federal prosecutors charged a former state prosecutor with treason on Wednesday after accusing him of allowing US personnel to take part in a drug

Education|Europe

As Serbia votes, students emerge as greatest threat to Vucic’s long rule

Aleksa Simic, a political science student at Belgrade University, did not hesitate when he learned that the collapse of a railway station canopy in the

Arts|Economy|Election

Trump’s approval rating hits a new low as midterms enter final stretch: CNN poll

Trump’s approval rating hits a new low as midterms enter final stretch: CNN poll

Economy|Europe|Political

Hungary’s Magyar vows accountability for Orbán era while holding firm on migration

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar is actively pursuing former officials accused of corruption and power abuses

Africa|Business|Economy|Sports|World

What F1’s return to Africa means for a continent long overlooked by global sports

Though human rights groups call it sportswashing, analysts say Formula 1’s choice of Rwanda to host its first African race since the 1990s can become a watershed moment for the continent’s sports industry – if it can deliver lasting development