After the AfD's election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, a member of the party – which is classified there as far-right extremist – has, for the first time in Germany, been elected as parliamentary speaker ...

On the third anniversary of the Hamas attack, Israel is commemorating the victims.

In the presidential elections in Brazil, the incumbent Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, are set to face one another in a run-off.

A court in Turkey has ordered news website T24 to be blocked on the grounds that - following the 'Ailem Güvende' (My Family is Safe) investigation - some of its content has been classified as 'LGBT pr...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election for 29 November after his minority government consisting of his social-democratic PSOE party and the left-wing Sumar alliance failed to ...

An investigation is under way in Finland into a series of suspected break-ins at the homes of several members of parliament.

Brazilians will vote on Sunday on whether they want Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to serve another term - his fourth - as president.

A protest movement is spreading across secondary schools in France.

The co-pilot of a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday apparently stabbed the pilot and attempted to take control of the aircraft with 174 passengers on board.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić announced his early resignation on Sunday, as he had already indicated back in June.

The Swedish Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson has announced that her party's exploratory talks with the Left Party have failed.

Israel will elect a new parliament on 27 October.

Pope Leo XIV is visiting France from 25 to 28 September.

In a referendum held on Sunday,

Today marks the end of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington, which was staged with great pomp by Donald Trump.

The Left Party under lead candidate Elif Eralp secured a clear victory in Berlin's state elections on Sunday, claiming around 26 percent of the vote.

The situation in the straits of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab and the decline in Russian exports due to the war in Ukraine are putting pressure on global crude oil and fuel markets.

US President Trump has banned several media outlets including the TV channel CNN and news website Politico, which is owned by the Springer-Verlag, from the White House.

Xi Jinping, China's president and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is due in Washington for a state visit today.

In state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the CDU has once again suffered major losses.

The United Russia party has secured a clear victory in the Russian parliamentary elections: according to the electoral commission it secured 58 percent of the vote.

Denmark and the US have reached a deal in the Greenland dispute, with an accord due to be signed on Friday.

In state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the CDU has once again suffered major losses.

Voting in Russia's parliamentary elections began on Friday morning.

The school year has kicked off in Portugal – though things are far from running smoothly.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced in the European Parliament in Strasbourg that she wants to bring the EU's relations with Canada 'to the highest level possible'.

In view of soaring fuel prices, the rising cost of living and the country's huge national debt, economic and social issues are dominating the campaign for the French presidential elections in spring 2...

A passenger train travelling from Kyiv to Warsaw was hit by a Russian drone in Ukraine on Sunday.

Leading tech entrepreneurs from the US have called for the development of AI to be slowed down.

The centre-right coalition led by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson – with the support of the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats (SD) – may have lost its majority in yesterday's general election.

Twenty-five years ago today, Islamist terrorists hijacked four US passenger aircraft and attacked key symbols of American power.

Marine Le Pen, the likely presidential candidate for the Rassemblement National, has announced that if she wins the presidential election in spring 2027 she will introduce a ban on wearing hijabs, or ...

The AfD's election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, where it secured just under 44 percent of the vote, has rocked the political landscape in Germany.

The results of the 2025 Pisa study, for which 760,000 15-year-olds from 91 countries were tested, were published on Tuesday.

Former General Ratko Mladić, who died in custody in The Hague on 27 August, has been honoured with a state funeral in Serbia.

It remains unclear what kind of government will emerge in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt after the AfD's election victory there.

Nine years after the bomb attack that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, tycoon Yorgen Fenech has been acquitted of orchestrating the crime.

In 2015, a majority of countries worldwide agreed to aim to limit global warming to a maximum of

The EU has announced a new package of sanctions against a further 1,600 individuals and companies with links to Russia's military-industrial complex.

The German Government is holding Russia responsible for the attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport.

The eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt will elect a new state parliament on Sunday.

The Icelanders have voted by a narrow majority against joining the EU.

Slovenia has vetoed a joint statement by the EU and its 27 Member States condemning Israel's decision to build new settlements in the West Bank.

A 16.68 billion-dollar fine and fundamental changes to youth protection: this is the settlement reached by Meta and the US states that brought the lawsuit. The plaintiffs had accused the company of de...

French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have signed a memorandum of understanding on the financing of three new theme parks in the Paris region.