Douglas Stuart wins the Booker Prize: ‘Shuggie Bain’, rejected 30 times, takes fiction’s biggest award
LONDON — The Booker Prize has gone to a debut novel that thirty publishers turned down. Douglas Stuart, a 44-year-old Scottish-American fashion…
Moscow Mechanism on Belarus: a 90-page catalogue of torture, and a demand for new elections
Vienna — An independent expert report commissioned under the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism has concluded that Belarus committed massive and systematic human rights…
OSCE observers on the US vote: ‘baseless allegations’ of fraud are harming public trust
Washington — The head of the international observation mission to the United States election has delivered an unusual rebuke to a sitting…
Louise Glück wins the Nobel Prize in Literature: the Swedish Academy honours an American poet of ‘austere beauty’
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 has been awarded to Louise Glück, the American poet, for what the Swedish Academy…
Karabakh in flames: Trump, Putin and Macron issue joint plea as fighting enters fifth day
Geneva — The presidents of the United States, Russia and France issued a rare joint statement on Thursday calling for an immediate…
Bayern Munich win the strangest Champions League: a closed-door final in Lisbon crowns a perfect run
LISBON — The most unusual season in the history of the European Cup has ended with a familiar name on the trophy.…
Football returns without fans: the Bundesliga becomes the first major league back
BERLIN — At 3:30 on Saturday afternoon, in an empty stadium in Dortmund that normally holds more than 80,000 people, professional football…
A pandemic of censorship fears: OSCE media watchdog sounds alarm over Hungary’s emergency law
Vienna — The OSCE’s media freedom watchdog has warned that emergency powers adopted in Hungary to fight the coronavirus could be turned…
Tokyo 2020 becomes the first Olympics postponed in peacetime: the Games move to 2021
TOKYO — The Olympic Games have been cancelled in wartime, boycotted in the Cold War and shaken by scandal, but never before…
Eurovision cancels for the first time in 65 years: the 2020 contest falls to the virus
GENEVA — It survived the Cold War, oil crises and Balkan wars, but it will not survive the coronavirus. The Eurovision Song…