Politics
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that his planned 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington would serve as a "military complex" housing drones and sniper ammunition.
AfD won in Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern and the Left won Berlin on Sunday, delivering historic CDU defeats and deepening pressure on Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
United Russia won Russia's parliamentary election, preliminary results showed, amid authorities' claims of a massive Ukrainian drone attack on voting and opposition reports of widespread irregularities.
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. said the naval blockade was pressuring Iran’s economy but offered no timeline to end the war, while Tehran demanded lifting the blockade and unfrozen assets.
The Left won Berlin’s 2026 Abgeordnetenhaus election with more than 25 percent, securing particularly strong support from young, well-educated voters.
Saudi Arabia confirmed Houthi forces struck Riyadh with a ballistic missile, escalating the Yemen war and prompting regional condemnations and US warnings of possible wider retaliation.
President Donald Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House after criticizing their coverage, and the outlets invoked First Amendment concerns.
Ukraine's president Zelensky announced he would meet U.S. President Trump in New York next week on UN General Assembly sidelines to discuss de-escalation in the war with Russia.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed on Sunday in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon to deepen cooperation on energy and security, amid tensions with the United States.
Iranian officials threatened sustained retaliatory strikes against the United States and its partners, and Houthi forces claimed attacks on Riyadh condemned by Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait.
Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Moscow that struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries and, Russian authorities said, killed two people and sparked fires.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced at a party youth meeting that she would propose a law banning veils in schools and capping the number of foreign students per class.
European commentators urged Germany to legally restrict and politically oppose the far-right AfD, while historian Timothy Garton Ash warned it could emulate illiberal Hungarian and American tactics.
Elif Eralp led Die Linke to victory in Berlin and promised to pursue transfer of about 220,000 flats from major landlords into public ownership.
World leaders convened in New York for the United Nations General Assembly as the organisation confronted wars, climate and AI crises, funding shortfalls and an impending secretary-general selection.
Greek minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis urged heavy investments to lower energy costs permanently in Europe, while commentators warned grid expansion and gas security would require vast, costly spending.
Two people were killed and several injured in the West Bank ahead of Yom Kippur after Israeli forces shot a Palestinian and a Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli.
The United States, Denmark and Greenland reached a security agreement over Greenland, which Danish and Greenlandic officials said preserved sovereignty but prompted local skepticism and confusion.
President Trump planned to meet New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York on Monday ahead of his UN General Assembly remarks; the White House declined to provide details.
Benjamin Netanyahu shifted his campaign to the right in Israel to preserve his political survival and worked to block rival Gadi Eisenkot, who led opinion polls, from forming a coalition.
The U.S. military said it killed four suspected "narco‑terrorists" in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, but provided no proof the boat carried drugs.
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella said they would not accept Russian attempts to influence French politics through threats, after President Emmanuel Macron warned of a growing Russian threat.
Die CDU erlitt bei zwei Landtagswahlen ein weiteres Debakel, wobei AfD und Linke vorn lagen, und der Kanzler kündigte an, weiterkämpfen zu wollen.
AfD candidate Kristin Brinker said many Italians backed the party in Berlin's mayoral campaign as voters sought more security, order and a stronger economy.
European opinion writers warned that invoking apocalyptic sci‑fi like Terminator distracted from converging systemic risks — AI, climate breakdown and far‑right politics — threatening human self‑destruction.
