: Israelis are heading to the polls today for legislative elections. It is the first national vote since 2022, and a decisive moment for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is running
: Europeans have not experienced war for so long that they don’t recognize it anymore, and don’t see it coming. That was also the case just before the outbreak of the First World
: A historically-high number of voters have chosen parties classified as authoritarian or populist, according to a new report analysing parliamentary election results for 260 parties in 31 countries since 1946, or since the year free elections were first
: Opinion polling from the Pew Research Center found that 69 percent of the French population is dissatisfied with democracy, Italy 62 percent, Poland 47 percent and Spain 68 percent. All are facing upcoming
: Brazil's workers' party leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defied all odds to become the first president to win the second round of elections after losing in primaries. Though his adversary has failed to acknowledge defeat, EU leaders and pro-democracy groups expressed relief at the unexpected
: While US secretary of state Marco Rubio publicly echoes Vladimir Putin’s inflated claims about Russian gains in Donetsk, Ukrainian crews on the ground are using scarce drones to snatch back their own wounded from territory Moscow says it
: Poland is not the first European country Palantir has approached, but other allied nations have already drawn the line. In Switzerland, the Swiss armed forces rejected Palantir’s offers nine times. The military’s conclusion was that it was technically impossible to guarantee that sensitive national data would not reach American intelligence
: If changes pass, citizens will no longer pay licence fees toward Czech Television and Czech Radio, and the government will instead fund public media operations from the state budget. Opposition MPs and experts have described these far-reaching changes as a dangerous attempt to weaken public service media, threatening their
: The impact of the EU's new pact on migration and asylum is clearly visible from an Italian port quay on the day of a migrant disembarkation. First touching land after having survived a sail aboard an overcrowded dinghy in a storm, 28 migrants were trooped through a sped-up "tick-boxing" screening, which experts worry will not accurately measure the vulnerabilities they're up