MELBOURNE, Australia — Ahead of Australia’s general election on Saturday, one party had campaigned on the idea that politics and the economy were rigged in favor of the elites. It attacked its opponent relentlessly for siding with the “top end of town.” It insisted that things needed to be shaken up to stop serving multinational […]

To the Editor: Re “How to Help Protect Abortion Rights” (editorial, May 16): As a filmmaker who shot in Georgia for much of 2018, I am dismayed by the new laws in this state that limit a woman’s right to choose. However, I am further dismayed at the shortsightedness exhibited by some in the Hollywood […]

MADRID (Reuters) – Struggling Spanish retailer DIA reached an eleventh-hour agreement to secure financing on Monday, new owner LetterOne said in a statement, staving off the imminent risk of having to start insolvency proceedings. DIA’s failure to compete with domestic and foreign rivals that have invested more heavily in their stores has hit the company’s […]

LONDON — The word most closely associated with Brexit at this point must surely be “disaster.” But I’d bet on “fantasy” coming a close second. Fantasy played a central role in the Leave campaign, of course, and as the years since the 2016 referendum have dragged on, the country has become ever more tolerant of […]

It makes sense that I’m a writer, which allows me to draft, hesitate, then rewrite many times before I say anything that I can live with for good. In 1976, my mother, father and two sisters and I immigrated to the United States. I was 7. We moved from Seoul to New York, and Dad […]

Michael Kelly (Irish Independent, May 17) decries the manner in which first communion has more or less lost its religious dimension and become primarily a milestone in a child’s development. However, the Catholic Church must take considerable responsibility for this, due to its dominance of primary education. The 2016 census shows in Dublin, less than […]

More than 100 artists and 20 businesses from across North America gathered in Halifax this weekend for the Maritime Tattoo Festival. The annual event attracts around 2,000 visitors each year, and with pop-up tattoo booths around every corner, it’s no place for those who are afraid of needles. But the inking extravaganza is about more […]

For Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, the coming week is all about managing expectations. Neither party believes there will be any major shift in its fortunes once the votes are counted in the local elections next weekend. Before the campaign kicked off, Fine Gael strategists were making bold predictions of overtaking Fianna Fail to become […]

To the Editor: “Russia Wants U.S. to Dread 5G Cellphones” (front page, May 13) claims that years of careful science have concluded that wireless technology poses no health risks. The International Agency for Research Into Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, concluded in 2011 that radio frequency electromagnetic fields — the type transmitted by […]

At the height of negotiations for the Belfast Agreement, the late Mo Mowlam, apparently sleepwalking, shuffled barefoot into a room where Seamus Mallon was meeting Bertie Ahern, sat down beside the former and fell asleep on his shoulder. Mallon let her rest and carried on talking. A few minutes later, as he describes in his […]