In Turkey, Critics of Erdogan See Democracy Eroding After Istanbul Mayor’s Detention
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In Turkey, Critics of Erdogan See Democracy Eroding After Istanbul Mayor’s Detention

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered this year facing a knot of political problems with little precedent in his two decades at the summit of power in Turkey. Voters were angry about persistently high inflation. His political party’s popularity had sunk. And his opponents…

For Trump and Netanyahu, Similar Strategies With Similar Goals
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For Trump and Netanyahu, Similar Strategies With Similar Goals

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines If it wasn’t obvious that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel believes he has an ally in his battle against the country’s attorney general, its judges and even the head of its domestic security service, he made it clear on Wednesday evening. “In…

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say
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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his…

Opinion | Pope Francis Projects a Lonely Moral Voice in a New World of Politics and Trump
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Opinion | Pope Francis Projects a Lonely Moral Voice in a New World of Politics and Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Pope Francis has been in a Rome hospital for a month, battling double pneumonia and its complications. His condition would be serious for anyone but could be more threatening for an 88-year-old man who had part of a lung removed as a youth…

A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era
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A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe. Decoupling, as it was called, would break the Western alliance that kept Soviet tanks from rolling across the Prussian plains. Now, in weeks, President Trump has…

Next Likely Chancellor Promises a Tougher Germany
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Next Likely Chancellor Promises a Tougher Germany

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Friedrich Merz, the man favored to be Germany’s next chancellor after elections on Sunday, is a conservative businessman who has never been a government minister and was forced out of party leadership years ago for challenging Angela Merkel. As a Christian Democrat and…

Opinion | Trump’s Ideas Are Terrible. That’s Not an Accident.
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Opinion | Trump’s Ideas Are Terrible. That’s Not an Accident.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The first month of the second Trump presidency has put the lie to the widespread wisdom that Donald Trump has no ideology and no ideas, only an insatiable thirst for power and money. Trump has shown that he has ideas. So many ideas….

Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
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Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Since taking office, President Trump has threatened European countries’ security and economies, angled to take control of Greenland, and promised to “definitely” slap the nations with tariffs. Even parties that would seem to be his natural allies are nervous. Some have quietly tiptoed…

Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice
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Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I really, really wanted to like Mark Zuckerberg’s gushing appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast last Friday. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, made some important points about the inadequacies of fact-checking as well as the troubling ways that governments can…