Q&A: Taiwan whistleblower Rex How on the challenge of generational change

[ad_1] Taipei, Taiwan – Eleven years ago, Rex How, writer, publisher, translator, editor, and then-cultural adviser to the Kuomintang (KMT) government of President Ma Ying-jeou, made a decision that would change the direction of his own life, and the future...

Advocates gird for Texas migrant law that could upheave US immigration

[ad_1] Texas has upped its fight to make a controversial new law — which would allow local authorities to arrest and detain migrants — enforceable. The law has been the subject of an ongoing legal battle, with the United States...

Fitch Ratings upgrades Qatar to third-highest on back of gas expansion

[ad_1] Revenues from Qatar’s LNG fields will provide budget surpluses until the 2030s, Fitch said.Fitch Ratings has upgraded Qatar to AA, its third-highest rating, on the back of revenues expected from its expanded gas fields, the agency has said. Revenues...

Ireland PM Leo Varadkar to step down

[ad_1] NewsFeedIn a surprise address, Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced he’s stepping down as the country’s leader and would immediately resign as leader of the Fine Gael party. He’ll stand down as Taoiseach, or prime minister, as soon as...

Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto wins presidency, elections body confirms

[ad_1] Former general declared the winner of last month’s presidential election.Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto has been elected president of the world’s third biggest democracy, the General Elections Commission says, decisively beating two rivals who have promised to file a legal complaint...

Ahead of congressional hearing, US worried over Pakistan ‘electoral abuse’

[ad_1] Islamabad, Pakistan – A senior United States Department of State official has described Washington’s concerns over “electoral abuse and violence” in the lead-up to Pakistan’s general election last month in written testimony submitted a day before a congressional hearing...

Lok Sabha polls: Suspended Bahujan Samaj Party MP Danish Ali joins Congress

[ad_1] MP Danish Ali, who was suspended by the Bahujan Samaj Party in December, joined the Congress on Wednesday ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.“The state of this country is not hidden from anybody,” Ali said at a press conference...

Lok Sabha polls: DMK manifesto promises to scrap Citizenship Amendment Act, block Uniform Civil Code

[ad_1] The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has promised to repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act and prevent the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections released on Wednesday, The Indian Express reported.The ruling party in...

‘Record falsification’: Kremlin critics decry vote won by Russia’s Putin

[ad_1] Mykola sarcastically wonders whether he “voted right”. The Ukrainian police officer left his home village near the southeastern city of Mariupol on February 25, 2022, the day after Russia’s full-scale invasion began. More than two years later, his elderly...

Praying for Armageddon: Evangelicals, the US and the Middle East

[ad_1] Episode 1 of a doomsday political thriller about evangelical Christian influence on US foreign policy in the Middle East.The first episode of Praying for Armageddon goes inside the evangelical Christian movement to explore its influence on US democracy and...
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