Turkey local elections: Setback for Erdogan as his party loses capital
The party of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lost control of the capital, Ankara, in local elections in a setback to his 16 years in power.
The opposition is also ahead in the contest for mayor of the largest city, Istanbul, the election commission says.
Nationally, the president's AKP-led alliance has won more than 51% of the vote in the municipal elections.
The vote, see as a verdict on Mr Erdogan's rule, has been taking place during an economic downturn.
The lira has been losing value recently and the economy went into recession in the last three months of 2018.
Kim Jong-nam poisoning trial: last suspect to be released after plea deal
Doan Thi Huong pleaded guilty to ‘causing hurt’ over the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother
A Vietnamese woman accused of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother has accepted a lesser charge of “causing hurt by a dangerous weapon” and will be released next month.
Doan Thi Huong welcomed the “fair sentence” after the judge handed down the verdict in a Malaysian court, where she has been on trial for the 2017 murder of Kim Jong-nam with the nerve agent VX.
Doan was sentenced to three years and four months in jail but her legal team said that with usual sentence reductions, she would be released next month.
Emigration more worrying than immigration for many Europeans, says ECFR study
Migration has dominated European politics since the 2015 migrant crisis. But ahead of May's EU parliamentary elections, an ECFR study has shown that many Europeans are more concerned with emigration than immigration.
Six countries in southern in eastern Europe are more concerned with emigration than they are with immigration, according to a new European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR) survey published by The Guardian newspaper on Monday.
Survey respondents in Romania, Hungary, Greece, Poland, Italy and Spain said they were more concerned with migration out of their respective countries rather than migration in. All six countries have seen their populations either flatten out or sharply decrease — Romania's population has decreased by 10 percent over the past decade.
In Italy's city of love, global far-right groups join forces under a 'pro-family' umbrella
In a 17th century palazzo in the Italian city of love, an international alliance of far-right politicians, conservative activists and religious leaders have united in hate.
Over the past few years, the World Congress of Families, whose mission is to "defend the natural family," was held in former Soviet states. This weekend, the conference's 13th edition found a home in Verona, endorsed by the regional authority and Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, the leader of the anti-immigrant and xenophobic League party.
Reiwa: Japan reveals name of new era ahead of Emperor's abdication
BY TOMOHIRO OSAKI
STAFF WRITER
In a much-awaited moment that heralded the approach of a new chapter in Japan’s history, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced Monday that the new Imperial era will be named Reiwa, in one of the final steps toward initiating the nation’s first Imperial succession in three decades.
Holding up a placard that displayed the kanji characters for the new era, Suga said the name was formulated based on a poem from “Manyoshu,” the oldest existing compilation of Japanese poetry.
The first character represents “good fortune,” while the second can be translated as “peace” or “harmony.”
What the 2020 presidential candidates’ logos tell us, explained by design experts
Blocky Beto, just plain Amy: The 2020 campaigns are using bright, bold design and poppy colors. Here’s why.
What is it about a political candidate’s logo that makes people want to get out and vote? Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s dynamic branding — incorporating speech bubbles and stars, her name pitched at an angle — particularly speak to voters in Queens and the Bronx last November? Was it President Donald Trump’s heavy sans serif logo, rendered in navy and red, that Americans found so compelling in 2016?
Voters might not necessarily realize it, but graphic design plays an important role in political campaigns, alerting us to how a candidate wishes to be perceived by the public. The growing field of entrants to the 2020 presidential race has already introduced a wide array of visual styles, from Kamala Harris’s striking purple, yellow, and red color scheme and Elizabeth Warren’s upbeat but simple sans serifs to Jay Inslee’s environmentalist iconography.
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