Day: May 16, 2024

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers are trying to get Michael Cohen to react as they cross-examine him. South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to stop Israel from attacking Rafah. Police have charged a man with shooting the Slovakian Prime Minister. Alarm bells over US government debt are getting louder. Plus, a lot of people tuned in to watch Caitlin Clark make her WNBA debut this week.

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The many political lives of Slovakia’s Robert Fico, Czechia plots its own course, a devastating week for Ukraine, and an AfD check. Also: Georgia’s Foreign Agents Law, Catalonian election hangover, Turkish crime crackdown and a fashionable reimagining of the Balkans route.