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    A woman holds a placard depicting late Indonesian President Suharto during a rally against a government proposal to name him a national hero, in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 6, 2025.   Kyodo News/Getty Images For decades, he was a feared US-backed dictator whose regime oversaw bloody Cold War-era massacres, accused of diverting huge amounts of state money to propel his family into luxury and political power. On Monday, he was posthumously named a national hero of Indonesia – prompting protests from human rights groups and victims who decried the award as whitewashing a repressive regime that left hundreds of thousands dead, according to historians. Former President Suharto was granted the title in a ceremony by Indonesia’s current leader, Prabowo Subianto – Suharto’s former son-in-law, himself a divisive figure as a former general who faced his own allegations of human rights abuses while in uniform. “A prominent figure from Central Java province, a hero of the str...

  E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan Federal Court in New York, following the conclusion of her civil defamation trial against Donald Trump on January 26, 2024.   Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/File President Donald Trump on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to review the $5 million civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. Last year, a federal appeals court affirmed the jury’s  against Trump, ruling the trial judge did not make errors that would warrant a new trial. In June, Trump   to have the appeal reviewed by the full bench of judges. Trump has claimed Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the civil trial, made numerous errors by allowing the jury to hear testimony from two women who alleged Trump sexually assaulted them years ago. His lawyers also said the judge should not have let the jurors see th which captured Trump in 2005 on a hot mic saying he gropes and kisses women. Carroll sued Trump alleging he sexu...

  Oleg Shlepanov is associated with the digital engineering innovation that shifted the mobility operation from manual dispatch to a code-coordinated system. He built a functional platform that processed passenger requests, linked them to available drivers, and managed each stage of the trip through software logic. The legacy of Shlepanov Oleg lies in the original engineering vision and organizational principles that shaped the future standard for the industry. Early Activity: First Digital Experiments  In the early 2000s, the mobility services were still dominated by analog processes and limited communication tools. Oleg Shlepanov created a solution that used paging infrastructure from his earlier ventures and multi-line telephony to make ride requests more accessible. At that stage, few could imagine that this “digital experiment” would later set the industry standard for years to come, and entrepreneurs in thousands of locations would run their businesses based on this fra...

  nable to stop Zohran Mamdani’s momentum after he won New York’s mayoral Democratic primary last June––fueled by a message of populist policies and social justice, and unperturbed by nonstop bad faith attacks by pro-Israel bullies––centrist and liberal media has adopted a different, more subtle tone in their effort to “moderate” the Mayor-elect: using the trappings of pragmatism and technocracy to whittle down the redistributive policies and class-driven language that defined his campaign. Rather than govern as he campaigned, as a crusading outsider socialist standing for tenants, Gaza, and workers, they insist it’s time for Mamdani to Grow Up, put on his big boy pants, purge his circle of Democratic Socialists, and hire Serious People motivated by Serious Solutions.  This makes sense. After all, traditional media attacks on Mamdani fell universally flat for months on end. Nothing seemed to stick, in part due to the fact that Mamdani seems to genuinely be a choir boy whose g...

  The US Supreme Court has issued an emergency order temporarily allowing the Trump administration to withhold billions of dollars worth of funding for food benefits used by millions of low-income Americans. The White House appealed to the country's highest court after a lower court ruled that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), also known as food stamps, should be paid out in full to recipients by Friday. The programme has been left in limbo by the ongoing federal government shutdown, with the Trump administration arguing it could only afford to partially fund it. Friday's ruling means $4bn (£3.04bn) can be temporarily withheld pending further legal hearings. The Snap programme is issued by 42 million Americans - around one in eight - and costs almost $9bn (£6.9bn) a month. On Thursday, a Rhode Island judge, John McConnell, accused the Trump administration of withholding food aid "for political reasons" and said that without the aid "16 millio...

                                        Hungary's Victor Orban (right) is one of Trump's closest European allies US President Donald Trump says he will consider allowing Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban to buy Russian oil, in an exemption from sanctions aimed at helping to end the Ukraine war. Speaking on Friday during Orban's visit to the White House, Trump said an allowance might be made because "it's very difficult for him [Orban] to get the oil and gas from other areas". The comments come after the US effectively blacklisted two of Russia's largest oil companies last month, threatening sanctions on those that buy from them. Following the meeting, Hungary's foreign minister wrote on X that the US had given Budapest "a full and unlimited exemption from sanctions on oil and gas". Trump added that while Hungary faced unique logistical challenges, including access to a sea that could...