To become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom, Andy Burnham has to win Thursday’s by-election in Makerfield. That’s not guaranteed.

Mark Hopkins managed to get some pictures of the bird from his back garden.

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Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc was crowned the winner of the newly revamped Intervision song contest — a Russian answer to Eurovision that some say is as much about politics and power as it is about perfo...

Russia needs more workers, primarily due to its war in Ukraine

A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

Soviet eco-activism exposed state rot – but it also provided the networks, platforms and experience for ordinary people to become anti-authoritarian campaigners

President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for more than three decades, will run against several token challengers on January 26

Georgia’s Elections, the Kremlin’s Empire, and Lessons for U.S. Democracy

When Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony in February 2024, the country’s liberal dissidents vowed to carry on their mission: to end the rule of Russian President Vl...

The July 4 U.K. election revealed that the country’s smaller parties are winning a growing share of the popular vote, even as the two big parties dominate Parliament.

In 2019 elections, Britons living in “red wall” constituencies helped lift the Conservatives to victory. Now, they may decide the election again.

New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the republic might be preparing for a regime change. Chechen warlord Ramzan Kad...

There’s an untapped market for contemporary art in Kazakhstan, assuming dealers can entice would-be collectors.

With the age of AI well under

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Russia's 2024 federal budget brought little in the way of surprises, the country is gearing up for a long war. Signed by President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, it ushered record levels of milita...

Experts say crackdown on abortion drugs and services is part of a project to instil ‘certain values’ in society.