Carol J Williams

The final vote was closer than pollsters had predicted – Lula’s 50.9% to Bolsonaro’s 49.1% --  intensifying concern that the incumbent would cry foul.

Poorly-conceived political ploys aimed at amassing power in Washington’s dysfunctional and narrow-thinking legislative ranks run the risk of appeasing the aggressor in the Kremlin.

The suspected Ukrainian hand in Saturday’s bombing of the $4-billion Kerch Strait Bridge linking the Russian mainland to Crimea may not have damaged the strategic span as much as it did Putin’s pose as commander-in-chief directing a war that is “going as planned.”

Political commentators called this election Brazil’s most important in decades, with the future of democracy, social peace and upward mobility opportunities on the line.

Only 12 percent of Britons polled by YouGov expect Liz Truss to be a good or great government chief. More than half – 52 percent -- predict she will be poor or terrible.

Gorbachev’s idea of humane communism never became a reality. His attempts to reform a brutal Communist empire garnered admiration around the world but failed to inspire his own people.

“Bad City” takes the reader inside the Times newsroom at a time of plummeting ad revenue and cancelled subscriptions.

Half a year after Russia’s invasion, the devastating attacks on Ukrainian fighters have ground down into a deadly war of attrition.

The campaign to succeed Johnson is mercifully short and political polling frequent enough to track changes in the fluctuating mood of the electorate.

“This attack casts serious doubt on the credibility of Russia’s commitment to yesterday’s deal and undermines the work of the U.N., Turkey and Ukraine to get critical food to world markets,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement late Saturday.