“There’s no doubt President Emmanuel Macron wants to take on a mantle of global leadership and reverse faltering Western support for Ukraine, but French politics will make that a hard role for him to pull off,” Politico reports. “All French opposition forces have already rounded on him. Marine Le

“Finland has elected Alexander Stubb as the president of the newest member of the NATO defense bloc after voters had to choose between two seasoned diplomats to keep neighboring Russia at bay,” Bloomberg reports. “The 55-year-old former prime minister represents continuity in foreign and security

“Former Pakistani prime ministers and bitter rivals Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan both declared victory in elections marred by delayed results and militant attacks, throwing the country into further political turmoil,” Reuters reports. “Sharif’s party won the most seats by a single party in

Reuters: “The party has used generative AI to create footage of Khan, its founder, reading speeches he conveyed to lawyers from his prison cell, urging supporters to turn out on election day. It has organized online rallies on social media that have been watched by several hundred thousand people

British prime minister Rishi Sunak is planning a general election for the first two weeks of October, The Independent reports. “Sources say Downing Street is eyeing an election earlier in the month with the PM unlikely to wait until November, as has been mooted in some quarters, because it would