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Stabbed Brazil election front-runner leaves intensive care: hospital
Brazil's far-right presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro was released from intensive care Sunday after undergoing surgery for complications from a stab wound he suffered while campaigning. The candidate, who had surgery to remove an intestinal blockage on Wednesday, has been moved to a "semi-intensive care unit," ...
Stabbed Brazilian presidential candidate needs another 'big' operation
Brazil presidential election front-runner Jair Bolsonaro remains in intensive care and needs another "big operation" following his stabbing ordeal, hospital authorities in Sao Paulo said on Monday. The Israelita Albert Einstein Hospital said in a statement that the right-wing candidate was still in "serious" condition ...
Italy's top three rightist parties united in bid to form government and name prime minister
Italy's three main rightist parties on Sunday vowed to present a united front in a fresh round of talks on forming a new government next week, defying attempts by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement to divide them in coalition negotiations. Following last month's inconclusive election, President ...
Sidestepping past scandals, Berlusconi barrels ahead with comeback
Sidestepping sex scandals, serial gaffes and legal woes, Silvio Berlusconi's astonishing return to front-line politics rolled on Sunday at a party gathering where adoring supporters feted the billionaire mogul as Italy's next kingmaker. Berlusconi, dressed in black with oiled-back hair and a dayglo smile, spoke ...
Although barred from office, 'immortal' Berlusconi leads resurgent right in Sicily victory
Silvio Berlusconi was Monday celebrating a return to center-stage in Italian politics as a right-wing coalition he helped put together declared victory in Sicily elections that had been billed as a benchmark for Italy's general election next year. With over 90 percent of votes counted ...
Austrians in runoff roundly reject far-right presidential candidate
Austrian voters roundly rejected on Sunday a candidate vying to become the first freely elected far-right head of state in Europe since World War II, halting at least temporarily the wave of populism sweeping Western democracies. The runoff vote was a litmus test, since it ...
Merkel facing pressure as German gangs target foreigners after Dec. 31 assaults blamed on migrants
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure to harden her line on refugees on Monday as the first extensive police report on New Year's Eve violence in Cologne documented rampant sexual assaults on women by gangs of young migrant men. Cologne police said at least ...
German police have identified three suspects in connection with attacks on women at New Year's celebrations in the city of Cologne but have not yet made any arrests, the interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) said on Wednesday. About 90 women reported ...
Tabloids brimming with anti-Korea diatribes
For 11 consecutive days from the start of this month, every front page of the Yukan Fuji, a nationally circulated evening tabloid published by the Sankei Shimbun, was embellished with at least one negative reference to South Korea. Some headline excerpts: "S. Korea blasts into ...
Media must take a stand against trolls
We live in an age of contention, when any comment can spark righteous indignation. Nominally conservative or progressive viewpoints become meaningless when every response is reactionary. This situation supposedly arose along with the Internet, which provides an unmediated outlet for every voice. Traditional media ...
