Halder sets her alarm for 1am not to get ahead of the workdayangladesh-Dhaka, but because that’s the only hour when Dhaka’s gas pressure runs strong enough for her to actually cook for her family. That single detail captures something larger than one exhausted bank employee’s routine: a war between the […]
Day: September 22, 2026
How’d United Russia Raise Its Share Of Votes Despite Wartime Hardships?
Their social contract of economic growth, security, and staying away from citizens’ personal lives for the most part has been greatly challenged by the ongoing conflict, but foreign efforts to influence voters into dealing the ruling party a defeat inspired them to defiantly rally around it instead. The ruling United […]
Sunday’s Elections Could Decide Merz’s Fate
rl Friedrich Merz has been chancellor for just 16 months, and he’s already facing the kind of electoral test that could determine whether he serves out anything close to a full term. Voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania went to the polls Sunday in elections that, on paper, are regional […]
Russian Parliamentary Election Gives Overwhelming Majority To United Russia Amid Unprecedented Foreign Interference
Final results are still coming in, but one thing is already certain: United Russia, the party founded by incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin, is set to gain an absolute majority of seats in the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia’s parliament. After 97% of the votes had been counted, […]






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