Romania’s centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, won the presidential election, surprising many after a tough race against a far-right rival. Dan had more than 5.83 million votes with nearly 99% of the total votes counted, giving him an insurmountable lead over hard-right rival George Simion. Exit polls right after the voting suggested he had 54-55%….
George Simion, a right-wing nationalist who has promised to “Make Romania Great Again,” won the first round of his country’s presidential election on Sunday, bucking the recent trend of voters punishing candidates seen as friendly to President Trump. With more than 98 percent of the votes cast inside Romania counted, Mr. Simion was far ahead…
A Los Angeles woman is suing Andrew Tate, the online influencer known for promoting misogynistic views, accusing him of physically and sexually abusing her while they were in a relationship. The civil complaint, filed on Thursday in Superior Court in Los Angeles County by Brianna Stern, a model, claimed that Mr. Tate choked, beat and…
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan returned to Romania early Saturday morning, where they are accused of serious crimes, including human trafficking and rape. The brothers, 38 and 36 years old, were arrested in Romania late in 2022 and were indicted formally in 2023 on allegations of their roles in a criminal organisation that exploited…
Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, the online influencers who decamped last month to the United States while facing human-trafficking charges in two European countries, were set to return on Friday to Romania ahead of a criminal proceeding, one of them said Friday. The British American siblings were expected to arrive at night in…
Calin Georgescu, an ultranationalist candidate who won the first round of Romania’s abruptly aborted presidential election last year, has been barred from competing in a do-over vote scheduled for May, sparking a small but violent protest by his supporters in Bucharest, the Romanian capital. The Central Electoral Bureau issued a statement late Sunday saying that…
Florida’s attorney general on Tuesday opened a criminal investigation into Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, the British American online influencers who face human-trafficking charges in Romania and Britain, after they arrived in the state last week. Attorney General James Uthmeier of Florida said in a statement on Tuesday that he had directed his…
Thousands of people gathered in Romania’s capital Bucharest and protested against a top court’s decision to cancel last December’s presidential election after far-right politician Calin Georgescu emerged as the surprise frontrunner in the first round. The demonstrators converged in front of the government building, expressing solidarity with Georgescu, waving Romania’s tricolour flag and chanting anti-government…
Andrew Tate rose to fame on a message of forceful masculinity that positioned men as rightful dominators over women. From his base in Romania, he promised to help guide men through “the Matrix,” his conspiratorial term for a world that he says unfairly demonizes men, and called the criminal accusations against him evidence of persecution….
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, the British American online influencers, arrived in Florida on Thursday morning after a Romanian court ruled they could leave the country, a development that raised questions about whether the Trump administration played a role in their sudden departure. The brothers, who had been barred from leaving Romania for…