BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Voters in Slovakia headed to the ballot stations Saturday to elect a successor to Zuzana Čaputová, the country’s first female president and a staunch backer of neighboring Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion, who isn’t seeking a second term. Former Foreign Minister Ivan Korčok won the first round of voting … Read more
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — A pro-western career diplomat defeated a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico in the first round of the presidential election Sunday to set up a runoff between the two to decide who will succeed Zuzana Čaputová, the country’s first female president. Former Foreign Minister Ivan Korčok had 42.13% of … Read more
Donald Trump appears to dream of being an American authoritarian should he return to office. The former US president, who on Tuesday secured enough delegates to win the 2024 Republican nomination, plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and house scores of them in large camps. He wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy … Read more
During his 19 overseas trips as president, Donald Trump made headlines by muscling his way through a crowd of fellow leaders to the front of a group photo and siding with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman over his own intelligence agencies, called North Korea’s murderous dictator “very honorable” and threatened to … Read more
Prabowo Subianto, a former general who was once banned from entering the United States because of alleged human rights abuses, looks set to become the next President of Indonesia, according to preliminary results hours after the Southeast Asian country of 270 million people voted on Wednesday in the world’s largest single-day election. Despite some weather … Read more
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron will hold his first prime-time news conference on Tuesday to announce his top priorities for the year as he seeks to revitalize his presidency, vowing to focus on “results” despite not having a majority in parliament. More than three years before the end of his term, Macron is trying … Read more
Taiwan’s presidential election campaign evolved early on into a classic three-way race. This supplied the dynamics for the most notable events, including the attempt to create a coalition last November to unit two of the contenders—the KMT Nationalists and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP)—to try and create an unassailable united front against the third, the … Read more
Play video content TMZ.com Joe Biden’s age has come under scrutiny as 2024 approaches, but a fellow Dem is going to bat for him … none other than Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Mayor Bass — who served in Congress before her current gig — told us Wednesday, all the haters who suggest JB is … Read more
Perhaps nothing illustrates Joe Biden’s presidency better than a photo his team posted to celebrate his 81st birthday on Monday. Biden is shown gripping the sides of the table, while a mass of candles (presumably 81 of them) rages on the cake in front of him. It’s symbolic of how he’s clinging to the hope … Read more
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Voters in Argentina head to the polls Sunday in a presidential runoff election that will determine whether South America’s second-largest economy will take a rightward shift. Populist Javier Milei, an upstart candidate who got his start as a television talking head, has frequently been compared to former U.S. President Donald Trump. … Read more