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- Yesterday42 min
Broken system? French protesters rage against austerity
How can the nation of haute couture and high-speed rail have an affordability issue? On paper, France boasts the planet's seventh-largest economy. Its top diplomat started the week hosting a G7 foreign ministers' meeting inside the regal setting of its landmark Left Bank ministry.
- 6 days ago45 min
Blue wave across America: Do US midterms signal beginning of the end for Trump?
He asked people to pretend he was on the ballot and they did. Voters across the United States have chased US President Donald Trump's Republican majorities from both houses of Congress. How big a landslide is this for the Democrats?
- 1 weeks ago44 min
Trickle or tsunami? Democrats eye gains in US midterm elections
Will it be a trickle, a wave, or a tsunami? It's Election Day in the United States, with Democrats hoping to take back one or both houses of Congress. We track the turnout, gauge the mood and raise the curtain ahead of midterm results that are sure to shape the last two years of Donald Trump's second and final term. Will a US president who’s already broken norms with his maximum use of executive powers be affected by the results a little, a lot, or not at all?
- 1 weeks ago44 min
Free and fair? The midterms and the state of US democracy
How far will the president of the United States press this time if Tuesday's midterm elections don't go his party's way? From "only if the Republicans win" campaign promises to a US Justice Department that's already got involved in races, will the White House weigh on the outcome? How will ballot counting go? What's changed since Donald Trump's "stop the steal" rhetoric led to the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol?
- 1 weeks ago43 min
Michigan's El-Sayed targeted by Republicans in midterms race: Will the religion card work?
What in the name of political free speech is off limits? Can you say whatever you want on the campaign trail, no matter how false or racist it is?
- 1 weeks ago44 min
Which way will Israel break? Netanyahu still in it after election night surprises
In Israel, the surprises only start with election night: they're still counting ballots in a vote that featured the highest turnout in decades, historic inroads by Arab parties, Benjamin Netanyahu’s worst result since 1999 and yet Israel’s longest-serving prime minister still has a path to staying in power. As we await the definitive makeup of the next parliament, our panel breaks out the calculators and pie charts: in what scenario does Netanyahu survive? Is the issue with the right-wing Likud leader or his policies?
- 1 weeks ago45 min
Bibi's moment of truth: Israel votes in first general election since October 7 attacks
The turnout tells the tale. Israelis are casting ballots in their largest numbers in decades in the first general election since the October 7 attacks of 2023. The vote is seen as a referendum on the bloodiest day in the nation's history. But more broadly, what kind of Israel do citizens want?
- 2 weeks ago42 min
Comeback kid: How did Brazil veteran-leader Lula upset Bolsonaro?
Two days shy of his 81st birthday… Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva emerging as the comeback kid. Coming from behind in the polls after a bitter campaign where he often showed his age, Lula becoming the first candidate since Brazil’s return to democracy in the 1980s to win the presidential runoff after trailing in the first round. How did the Workers Party leader turn a 2-point-2 million vote deficit against the far-right's Flavio Bolsonaro into a 4-point-4 million vote win? Reminder that three short weeks ago, most races at the federal and state level broke the way of conservatives and the far-right?
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