Carol J Williams

Belarus’s highest-ranking diplomat was known to resist Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to bully Belarus into arming, training and deploying forces into Russia’s disastrous war.

“Some changes now seem inevitable. The sense of the regime’s invincibility, and women’s marginalization from politics, has been shattered."

The NATO treaty obligation to come to the defense of any of NATO’s 30 nations under attack could have been the long-feared spark for World War III

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.