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The early vote count in Sunday’s six-way presidential election in Colombia pointed toward a runoff in June, with leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro leading in a ballot held amid growing discontent over increasing…

Broadcom’s potential bid to buy VMware, which would be one of the largest deals of 2022, could raise a number of questions. The biggest one: Will the Biden administration, which has vowed to fight corporate concentration, allow such a deal…

Kanubhai Desai, the finance minister of Gujarat is all set to present the incumbent government’s final budget on March 3. Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns to prevent the spread have severely impacted the state in the last two…

When the European Union’s top court this week cleared the way to cut billions of euros in funding for Poland and Hungary over violating democratic rights, it was a big win for women’s rights groups, who have been…

Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister, delivers a speech at the Fidesz party headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, on April 8, 2018.Akos Stiller | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRisk of death from Covid-19 is significantly higher in countries…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wife, Carrie, was on Monday forced to apologise for “momentary lapse" over Covid-19 lockdown rules during a friend’s party in 2020, even as the so-called ‘Partygate’ scandal continues to pile pressure on her…

All across Germany, football stadiums are operating at limited capacity or entirely behind closed doors in response to rising COVID-19 rates. On Friday night, for example, at Borussia Dortmund's 83,000-capacity, only 750 fans were present…

Last Saturday, Cologne beat local rivals Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-1 in the Bundesliga. It was Cologne's biggest derby win since 1996, but the reaction to the game was dominated by public outrage at the decision to allow 50,000 people to…

“He succeeded in making migration one of the main issues of the election, but anti-immigrant talk wasn’t enough; he lost,” Otto Eibl, the head of the political science department at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic’s…

Issued on: 09/10/2021 - 20:51 Prime Minister Andrej Babis' centrist party on Saturday narrowly lost the Czech Republic's parliamentary election, a surprise development that could…