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Meloni fixed Italy’s deficit. But real wages are still 6.1% below 2021.
Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet passed 1,413 consecutive days in office on 4 September 2026. That figure overtook the 1,412 days of Silvio Berlusconi’s second government. No single administration in the history of the Italian Republic has lasted longer.
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AfD Wins Saxony-Anhalt With 44 Percent. Three Seats Now Decide Who Governs
The far right took 39 of 83 seats in Magdeburg. It cannot govern alone. Nobody else can govern easily either. We walk through the seat arithmetic, the constitutional clock, and the economic bill.
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Gloria Steinem Dies at 92: The Journalist Who Turned Private Pain Into Public Power
Gloria Steinem spent six decades turning private injuries into questions. Her death closes a chapter in modern feminism. It does not settle the arguments she opened. Steinem died Wednesday at her New York City home, according to her foundation. She was 92.
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Two Chief Executives Vanished. Poland’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Vanished With Them
Zondacrypto claimed 1.3 million customers and 4,500 bitcoin. The public ledger showed 0.086. We trace how a Katowice startup became a Polish political crisis.
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Venezuela’s Economy Under Delcy Rodríguez: The Oil Boom That Washington Controls
Eight months on, the headline economy looks transformed. Crude output has passed 1.1 million barrels a day. American Airlines and United fly into Caracas again. Chevron, Shell, Repsol and Eni work under fresh US licenses.
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The Doomsday Myth: Nuclear Weapons Will Not End the World — and That Should Worry You More
Six months after the last US-Russia arms treaty lapsed, we tested five widely circulated claims about nuclear weapons against declassified test records, the Hiroshima survivor data, and the contested nuclear-winter literature.
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From $1 Billion to $55 Billion: Inside Ukraine’s Defense Industry Transformation
Four years of war turned a hollowed-out Soviet legacy sector into Europe’s most productive arms industry. The factories now outrun the money that pays for them.
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Russia’s Rumored Autumn Mobilization Meets a Labor Market With Nothing Left to Give
Moscow denies preparing a new call-up. The arithmetic of Russia’s workforce explains why the decision has quietly become fiscal. The cost lands on the defense industry either way.
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The Republican Party After Trump: Four Fault Lines That Decide What Comes Next
The Twenty-Second Amendment ends Donald Trump’s political career on 20 January 2029. We examine the succession fight, the coalition arithmetic, and the consequences for Europe.
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Apollo Wins easyJet for £5.7bn. The Spread Says Brussels Could Still Break It.
Apollo beat Castlelake on 6 August after a ten-week fight. Shareholders get 715p a share in cash. The market still refuses to pay anywhere near that — and the reason sits in Brussels, not London.
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The Flying BMP’s Mykhailo Drapatyi Takes Command. How will he shape the war?
Ukraine changed its top soldier last week. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi commander-in-chief on 22 July. He removed General Oleksandr Syrskyi, the architect of Kyiv’s 2022 defense.
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The Liquidity Wave: How the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs Will Reshape San Francisco Home Prices
Two trillion-dollar listings are converging on a single city. We trace how paper wealth turns concrete, why the bidding wars began early, and what the last tech cycle says happens next.