Poland’s ruling populists have been given free rein in their mission to reshape the country after liberal hopes of taking the presidency were squelched in narrow defeat after a divisive campaign. President-in-Office Andrzej Duda was elected to another five-year term as a family set of demographic divisions that developed in …
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Four Azerbaijani soldiers were killed when troops from Azerbaijan and Armenia clashed on their border in a further escalation of their decades-long territorial dispute. Three of the soldiers died on Sunday and one on Monday in artillery fire that broke out on Sunday near the Tavush region, the Azerbaijani Ministry …
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GENEVA / ZURICH (Reuters) – The new worldwide coronavirus pandemic will worsen if countries fail to comply with strict health precautions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday. FILE PHOTO: The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, attends a press conference organized by the Geneva …
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The cafe’s owner, Timothée Mottin, found about a dozen newspapers dating from January 20 and 21, 1966 near the Bossons Glacier in southeastern France, he told CNN. The newspapers are “in very good condition, you can read them, unfold them,” he said. “Well, they are a little torn, but in …
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Duda, backed by the ruling nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS), won with 51.21% of the vote, the country’s electoral committee said Monday. Warsaw’s most liberal mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, of the center-right opposition Civic Platform (PO) party, obtained 48.79%. PiS will see his victory as a validation of the populist …
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