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German Unity Day may well have been celebrated earlier this month but the sounds of the songs sung to mark the occasion are still reverberating from Berlin to Athens. Some 240 Greeks and Germans joined their voices in a festive service at Berlin Cathedral on Saturday 3 October. The Greek participants were 38 pupils from the Chios Music School, who performed alongside choirs and ensembles from Berlin’s Sing-Akademie (Sing-Akademie zu Berlin). Together they performed works by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Britten, Lewandowski and Holst, as well as “Ora kali” by Michalis Adamis and “Messa Latina” by Yannis Christou. The result of this…
Supporters of the student-backed opposition movement celebrated the announcement, marking a major political turning point after nearly two years of demonstrations against his government. Earlier, election officials had begun counting ballots at polling stations across the capital as voting closed. Preliminary figures released by Serbia’s election commission indicated the country’s highest parliamentary election turnout in more than three decades, reflecting the scale of public participation in a closely watched contest between the governing party and a broad opposition movement. The election followed a prolonged wave of protests that began after the collapse of a concrete canopy at Novi Sad railway…
The Serbian leader, who is often compared to Hungary’s Viktor Orban or America’s Donald Trump, lost in a landslide to a protest-backed student movement. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech
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The flock of 1,250 sheep and 160 goats set off from Casa de Campo before crossing the Puente del Rey and making its way through the historic centre. Bells chimed and animals bleated as crowds of residents and tourists lined the streets to watch, take photographs and follow the procession. Several shepherds wore traditional dress, while others carried young lambs or offered treats to their animals. Folk musicians added to the festive atmosphere as the flocks filled streets and squares normally dominated by traffic. The event marks transhumance, the centuries-old practice of moving livestock between summer and winter pastures along…
According to a senior National Rally official, Le Pen wanted to use her speech to cast herself in a presidential role and to reassure voters hesitant about supporting her. “People mostly agree with our ideas, but some still think it’s a gamble to vote for us,” the official said. Tensions overflowing Le Pen’s rally was also a show of force, with over 8,500 supporters gathering in a conference hall in Orléans, many carrying French flags and chanting “Marine, présidente!” According to POLITICO’s most recent Poll of Polls from mid-October, if the election were held today Le Pen would get 34%…
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Across Brazil, voters made their way to polling stations on Sunday 25 October as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faced Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff election. In the Amazon rainforest, residents of the isolated Lago do Catalão community travelled by canoe and motorboat to cast their ballots, relying on waterways to access polling facilities. In Rio de Janeiro’s Rocinha favela, long queues formed as residents waited to vote, reflecting the deep divisions surrounding the election. In Brasília, voters showed passionate support for both candidates, highlighting the stark choices facing the electorate. The official result is expected tonight between…
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado is back in her home country following a series of failed attempts to return and nearly a year in exile. Machado announced her return via a post on social media site X, in which she wrote “I am here. With you”. Machado had covertly left Venezuela in December 2025 to receive her Nobel Peace Prize. Just weeks later, US forces seized the country’s longtime leader Nicolás Maduro and flew him to New York to face criminal charges. Machado has heaped praise on US President Donald Trump for launching the…
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