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Polls suggest the election will be decided in a runoff vote between Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, the candidate for Tusk’s Civic Platform, and historian Karol Nawrocki, who has been nominated as PiS’s candidate despite not being a member of the party. Nawrocki is currently trailing behind on 26.2 percent, with Trzaskowski being predicted 35.7 percent, according to a December poll from the Institute for Market and Social Research. At the last presidential election in 2015, Duda went from being a virtual nobody on the backbenches of the European Parliament to defeating incumbent Bronisław Komorowski, who ran as an independent with the support…
Updated: 08/01/2025 – 20:22 GMT+1 Born in 2024, the sisters are now old enough to leave their small playpen for a more spacious and stimulating environment. … More Born in 2024, the sisters are now old enough to leave their small playpen for a more spacious and stimulating environment.In their new play area, Leni and Lotti have plenty of room to crawl, climb and explore under the watchful eye of their 11-year-old mother, Meng Meng.Zoo staff hope that this transition will support the healthy development of the pandas as they continue to grow and thrive.
“[When] combined with the spread of false information about the violation of the ceasefire by the Armenian army, [this will] form a “justification” for a new escalation in the region,” Pashinyan told Armenpress on Wednesday. Aliyev and his government have been accused of stirring up ethnic hatred against Armenians. Azerbaijan has fought a series of wars against its neighbor since 2020. In September 2023, Azerbaijani forces conquered the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, sparking an exodus of its entire 100,000-strong ethnic Armenian population — drawing allegations of ethnic cleansing from Western NGOs and watchdogs. Aliyev’s fascism claim came after the Azeri…
Snubs, surprises and an unpredictable awards season continues… The SAG Awards are a historically accurate bellwether for the Oscars – which bodes well for ‘Wicked’. Here’s the lowdown. The Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) have unveiled its 2025 nominations, and it’s a surprising line-up in many respects, with plenty of notable snubs and a nominees list that cements 2025 awards season as one of the most unpredictable in recent memory.Wicked and Shōgun, the runaway winner when it comes to TV at the Golden Globes, dominated the nominations. Both nabbed five noms apiece, including an unexpected acting nod for Jonathan Bailey…
Prior to Brexit, Robbins had long been regarded by fellow officials in Whitehall as a high performer primed for a top job in Britain’s impartial civil service. But he returns bearing battle scars from serving as then-Prime Minister Theresa May’s Europe Adviser and the country’s chief Brexit negotiator from 2017 to 2019, the high watermark of the country’s fraught Brexit process. He was the frequent target of angry briefings from Brexiteers who accused him of pro-EU bias. It forced a rare public intervention from then-Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, who said those attacking Robbins “should be ashamed of themselves” and leapt to the defense of…
Updated: 08/01/2025 – 18:00 GMT+1 Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel. … More Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
Bannon, who is now prominent right-wing podcaster, last week told Musk that he and other MAGA supporters are going to “rip his face off” unless he stops pushing for visas to bring skilled foreign workers to the U.S. The two have been in recent weeks locked in a dispute over the H-1B visa program, in which Trump sided with Musk. But despite their disagreements, Bannon said that Musk’s influence will work to the advantage of the MAGA movement, of which he is an adamant supporter. “I support his participation because the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” Bannon said.…
Upon arriving in Poland, the Bui sisters began to discover the mysteries of Polish Romanticism, and were stricken with awe. Their fascination with Slavic mythology, culture, and folklore led them to make films inspired by these ancient traditions. The Bui sisters grew up in the south of France. Their father came from Vietnam, their mother from Poland. They were unfamiliar with the Slavic world, but when they moved to Poland as teenagers, they immediately fell in love. Now, the two sisters are sharing their love of Slavic traditions with the rest of the world via a film adaptation that’s won…
Trump declared Tuesday he would not exclude using economic or military coercion to gain control of Greenland, a self-ruling Danish territory, and the Panama Canal. “I’m not gonna commit to that. No. It might be that you’ll have to do something,” he said. “We need Greenland for national security purposes,” he added. “People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do they should give it up because we need it for national security.” Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., landed in Greenland on Tuesday on what he called a private visit. His entourage included the elder…
US President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case. US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block a New York state court from sentencing him on Friday for his criminal conviction relating to hush money paid to a porn star.Trump’s legal team turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts denied their request to delay the sentencing by Justice Juan Merchan, who oversaw Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has…