The election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil in the run-off on October 30 was a foregone conclusion. Equally certain, after Lula failed to defeat incumbent Jair Bolsanaro in the first round on October 2, was that it would be a cliffhanger although Lula was the odds-on favourite.

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When the US succeeded in using Ukraine as the bait and battleground to provoke Russia and draw it into a war, the sole superpower and its allies, particularly the UK, sounded supremely confident about the success of Ukraine’s cause.

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There is a lot of the good, the bad and the ugly that is common to the 1920s and 2020s. The “Roaring 1920s”, as the Americans used to call it, was a decade of change brought on by cars, radios and telephones.

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The presidential election in Brazil is turning out to be a cliffhanger with the odds-on-favourite, the leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, faring far worse than expected against the right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the first round of voting held on October 2.

WION Spotlight | Will Bolsonaro do a Trump in Brazil post-election? 

Fascist forces worldwide, including in India, are bound to welcome Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party being voted to power in the elections held on September 25.

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The relationship between India and Turkiye, marked by irritants such as Ankara’s position on the Kashmir issue, is getting friendlier after the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Samarkand during the recent SCO summit.

WION Spotlight | Modi-Erdogan meet lifts up India-Turkiye ties

The electoral outcome in Sweden suggests that it may be better aligned with today’s “New India” on the “right” path. Gone is the Sweden for long regarded as a moral superpower, a model of the “Third Way” and neutral between East-West blocs but firmly on the side of democracy, tolerance and inclusiveness.

WION Spotlight | Rising Might of Sweden’s Right

India has extended assistance of $3.8 billion to help Sri Lanka recover from the economic collapse which saw unprecedented turmoil. Not long after, the India has put Sri Lanka in the dock at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for lack of “measurable progress” in resolving the Tamil minority issue.

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When it comes to well-known public figures it is the little-known tidbits about them that are interesting. How and why Rishi Sunak lost to Liz Truss in the race to become UK’s Prime Minister is no big mystery.

WION Spotlight | Truss, Sunak & Vajpayee: Devil is in the detail 

Corrupt heads of government whose terms are marked by sleaze and scandal often hog more media attention than those known for probity in public life. Scott Morrison, who was Australia’s prime minister from 2018 to 2022, is now in the news for secretly appointing himself to several ministerial posts between March 2020 and May 2021.

WION Spotlight | Great Scott! Morrison, Aus ex-PM, had secret shadow Cabinet

The Ukraine war and consequent sanctions against Russia by the US-led West have plunged the latter into an economic crisis marked by acute energy shortage, raising fears of a dark and cold winter.

Wion Spotlight | Iran ignites idea of opposing Western expansionism

Those who assert that western hegemony is no longer sustainable can take heart from the fact that movers and shakers on the world stage are also saying this. French President Emmanuel Macron has now proclaimed that “Western hegemony is nearing its end”.

Wion Spotlight | Is Western hegemony nearing its end?

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