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“I’ll be darned,” the US leader said after hearing that Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats were set to win the Sunday election, potentially making him the next chancellor. “They are solid,” he added, referring to the projected winning party. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) took more than 25% of the vote, …

Fifteen years ago today, failed US presidential candidate, Al Gore, released what can be best described as a scare movie called ‘An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It’. The movie was a global hit and Gore won an Oscar; he also …

These will forever be known as the ‘Pandemic Games’, played out in the shadow of Covid one year later than planned.   Better late than never, some might say; others would argue these were the Games that never should have happened at all. But go ahead they did, and in …

World number six Svitolina lost five games in a row to 22-year-old Kazakh Andreyevna Rybakina early in the women’s singles bronze medal match, battling back to narrowly avoid a straight sets defeat by taking the second on a 7-5 tie-break. The 26-year-old, who recently married fellow tennis star Gael Monfils, was …

Speaking to Russian newspaper Argumenty I Fakty, the academic argued that Moscow is now much stronger than it was during the late Soviet period, and the West has weakened in that time. Karaganov has been one of Russia’s top foreign-policy theorists for decades, and has also advised President Vladimir Putin …

2018 world bronze medalist Bochkov was suspended from sport after a sample from 2015 was found to have contained traces of a prohibited anabolic agent, putting his impressive career on hold last year. In a spiritedly self-congratulatory message, the group of lawyers he turned to said they had studied the …

The team, which is known as Barca Femini, tasted glory on the holiday island of Tenerife after beating local team Granadilla 1-0 thanks to a Bruna Vilamala winner in the first half.   They still depended on other results, though, with bitter cross-city rivals Espanyol doing them a huge favor when holding …

In the Monday article, titled, ‘Joe Biden, playing as Luigi, wins in Mario Kart race against granddaughter at Camp David’, staff writer Marina Watts reported on the details of Biden’s video game victory, prompting critics on social media to accuse the magazine of going easy on the new president. The …

In the aftermath of the battle for a fair Brexit trade deal, there will be plenty of argument over who came out on top, but having spent 10 years in the boiler room of the campaign to extricate Britain from its membership of the European Union, my view is that …

The suit, filed in the US Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, calls for judicial intervention to ensure the integrity of the 2020 presidential election results. While the legal challenge focuses primarily on alleged breaches of election laws and norms by the four defendant states, it also references …