Elections
Opposition party leader Lee Jae Myung leads in polls as South Korea votes for new president
Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Korea, poses for a photo after receiving a symbolic ticket for the ”Lee Jae-myung Train” from lawmaker Jang Kyung-tae during a campaign rally at Yongsan Station Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, on May 19, 2025. (Photo by Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto […]
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Trump-backed nationalist clinches Poland’s presidency
WARSAW, POLAND – JUNE 01: Karol Nawrocki, presidential candidate of the Law and Justice Party (PiS), gestures as he arrives with his family to cast his ballot at a polling station during the Polish presidential runoff election on June 01, 2025 in Warsaw, Poland. Today’s election is a closely contested race between Nawrocki and Rafal […]
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Polish conservative Nawrocki leads presidential vote
Karol Nawrocki casts his ballot in Warsaw, Poland on 1 June, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki established a lead in Sunday’s presidential election in Poland, late exit polls showed, with the ballot seen as a test of the nation’s support for a pro-European course versus Donald Trump-style nationalism. A late exit poll by Ipsos […]
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Poland on a knife’s edge as exit poll shows a near tie in runoff
An exit poll in Poland’s presidential runoff on Sunday showed the two candidates in a statistical tie with the race still too close to call in the deeply divided nation. The results could set the course for the nation’s political future and its relations with the European Union. An Ipsos exit poll released when the […]
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Trump advisers defend tariffs amid legal fight, insisting they’re ‘not going away’
US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on May 30, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers maintained confidence on Sunday that the “tariffs are not going away,” as a key tenet of Trump’s policy agenda hangs in legal limbo. “Rest assured, […]
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Trump and Xi are likely to talk soon about trade, though no date has been set, Hassett says
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett gives a TV interview outside of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett suggested on Sunday that President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping could have a conversation about trade as soon as this week. Hassett […]
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EU ‘prepared to impose countermeasures’ after Trump doubles steel tariffs to 50%
President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the US Steel-Irvin Works on May 30, 2025 in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Jeff Swensen | Getty Images The European Union on Saturday criticized President Donald Trump’s move to double tariffs on steel imports, warning that it “undermines” efforts to reach a “negotiated solution” in the […]
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Trump, Elon Musk to hold joint event as DOGE loses its leader, top staffers
President Donald Trump on Friday will host a press event to celebrate Elon Musk as the Tesla CEO concludes his official government service after four turbulent months leading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Musk’s scheduled departure comes at a precarious moment, both for DOGE and for his relationship with the president. Multiple top staffers […]
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Trump could ask Supreme Court to halt tariff block as soon as Friday
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event announcing new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, April 2, 2025. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Trump administration said it may ask the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as Friday to immediately pause a federal court ruling blocking many of President […]
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Trump says he’s not ‘chickening out’ on trade: ‘It’s called negotiation’
President Donald Trump on Wednesday pushed back against an emerging critique of his on-again, off-again tariff threats, which has been derisively summed up as the “TACO trade.” The term coined by a Financial Times columnist — which stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out” — describes a pattern in which Trump announces heavy new tariffs, sending […]
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