no concert pianist, but a great russian president.....
In 25 years, Russia rose from the ruins of the '90s to a global power with a $6.94 trillion economy.
In 25 years, Russia rose from the ruins of the '90s to a global power with a $6.94 trillion economy.
Acting Liberal leader Sussan Ley has offered frontbench positions to MPs in return for their support in the party’s leadership contest, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
Australia’s mainstream media have ignored and distorted the genocide in Palestine. A recent Australians for Humanity forum, chaired by former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis, and featuring Margaret Reynolds, Stuart Rees and Peter Slezak, tackled the issues and discussed what needs to be done.
Friedrich Merz has been elected as German chancellor following a second Bundestag vote on Tuesday. The leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) had initially fallen six votes short of the required 316-vote threshold earlier in the day, but hours later rallied conservatives and allies in the country’s parliament to win 325 votes.
The two-month-long siege is a “clear and calculated effort to collectively punish over two million civilians and to make Gaza unliveable”.
The European Union, that grand and failing dream of technocrats, is dying. Its decline is not sudden or dramatic but a slow unraveling, a bureaucratic collapse in which every policy designed to sustain it only hastens its demise.