Month: October 2026

Oozing panache and bagging awards already, La Bola Negra is an eye-popping war and prejudice epic starring Penélope Cruz in a blond wig and Glenn Close speaking Spanish. We meet the ex-lovers who dreamed it up When Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo – the directing duo known in their native ...

Two polls project that veteran PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot are tied, with neither winning a majority. ...

Polls have closed in the Israeli election, but there is no clear winner. ...

The EU is lobbying G7 nations to step up their support for Ukraine to help offset an expected drop in funding next year. Non-EU allies have pledged only $4.5 billion for 2027, the Financial Times reported, down from more than $20 billion this year, applying further pressure to strained government ...

The White House offered a visa to Flávio Bolsonaro, Semafor first reported Tuesday, as the Donald Trump ally reportedly fled to the US to evade corruption charges following his defeat in Brazil’s presidential election. Bolsonaro’s loss comes as the Trump administration’s “Donroe Doctrine” to reassert hegemony over Latin America is ...

China’s “national team” of huge state funds has injected billions of dollars into stocks to arrest a weekslong slide, as the country’s flagging markets officially entered bear territory. Coming days before the Communist Party’s Fifth Plenum, the intervention may have helped “prop up the market,” a Chinese financial commentator said, ...

US consumer sentiment rose in October for the first time in four months, helped by easing retail gas prices, but a gloomy economic outlook continues to cloud Republicans’ midterm prospects. Despite the increase, “confidence remained on the long-term downward trend,” The Conference Board said. US gas prices are 40% higher ...

Israelis voted Tuesday in an election pervaded by a sense of historical consequence, but the record turnout did not produce a clear winner, according to exit polls. The projected results delivered a rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose coalition finished behind that of challenger Gadi Eisenkot, who has offered ...

Voters have a chance to break America’s two-tiered system of justice and hold powerful people accountable Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit wrote about the GOP’s alignment with the ...

Support on the cost of living, and in particular energy bills, as well as announcments on devolution will be central to John Healey’s first Budget. ...