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LONDON — Four days in a stuffy conference center surrounded by political nerds: It’s enough to make lukewarm wine appealing. “It’s Glastonbury for geeks,” Labour adviser Matthew Torbitt said of Britain’s party conference season, in full swing this weekend as the Tories gather in Manchester. Just switch world-famous headliners and dawn raves for earnest panel […]

LONDON — Actress Bette Midler once said that “with the right footwear one can rule the world.” Delegates heading to Britain’s political party conferences this month might settle for the less lofty ambition of dry, blister-free feet. Matching practicality with looking the part at these annual gatherings of decision-makers, activists, lobbyists and journalists is no mean […]

Liberal, Western-oriented Progressive Slovakia was leading Slovakia’s election on Saturday, followed by the leftist-populist Smer opposition party, an exit poll indicated. Progressive Slovakia, led by former journalist and Oxford grad Michal Šimečka, had 23.5 percent of the vote, followed by former Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Smer with 21.9 percent, the exit poll from the Focus […]

Russian and Belarusian para-athletes will be able to participate at next year’s Paris 2024 Games “in an individual and neutral capacity” after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) voted against a full suspension of the two countries’ national Paralympic committees. The decision was slammed by Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak. “Permitting participation of Russians in the […]

Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman has never seen a scenario like this week: “Not in real life — in movies. It’s crazy.” It’s practically a national adage to say that Congress is wracked by dysfunction. Yet in the days leading up to Sunday’s potential shutdown, the House and the Senate are witnessing a cinematic parade of […]