For each presidential election cycle the mainstream media obsesses over all the candidates. Are they too old? Are they too left? Are they too uncharismatic?…
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe returned to prison after psychiatric ward ‘torture’
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran for alleged spying, has been transferred back to prison from a hospital psychiatric ward she described as…
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Slovakia’s first female president takes office in a divided country
Zuzana Caputova had been battling to close a toxic landfill in her hometown, Pezinok, in Slovakia for years when she learned that the wife of…
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Corporate sponsorship of EU presidency to continue despite outcry
The controversial practice of picking corporate sponsors for the European Union’s rotating presidency is to continue, despite an outcry from MEPs. EU countries have been…