“What a tremendous comeback!” Özdemir told his cheering supporters after polls closed. The Greens’ victory was due largely to the centrist Özdemir’s popularity with voters, surveys indicated.
The vote in Baden-Württemberg is the first of five state elections and numerous local…
Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the former Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as its supreme leader — a move that suggests a push for stability as the Islamic Republic navigates the most significant threat to its survival in its nearly 50 years.
Iranian state media on Sunday announced…
More than 60% voters said they wanted to keep the current licence fee levels, initial projections show.
The UK’s Wife Carrying Race in Surrey is “certainly chaotic”, says its director.
“We need to be very diligent about not only our security here at home, but obviously targets around the world where there are U.S. assets including embassies and so on,” he told Fox News.
Since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on Feb. 28, Washington has closed its embassies…
Israel’s ambassador to the United States on Sunday declined to rule out the possibility of deploying Israeli troops to Iran as the country’s joint military operation with the U.S. continues to bombard Tehran.
“We’re ruling out the possibility of this regime remaining in the position…
The vote means Switzerland will join the likes of Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, which have already written the right to cold, hard cash in their constitutions. Austrian politicians are also debating whether to follow suit, as people’s payment habits become increasingly digital —…
When U.S., Mexican and Canadian soccer officials fanned out across the globe nearly a decade ago to sell the 2026 World Cup, they traveled in threes — one representative from each country — to underscore a simple message: North America’s three largest countries were in lockstep.
“It…
Michael Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, declined Sunday to fully endorse President Donald Trump’s statement that Iran was responsible for a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that left at least 165 people dead.
“I’ll leave that to the investigators to determine,”…
A senior figure in Iran’s Kurdish opposition has tied any potential ground incursion into Iran to a major U.S. military decision: the establishment of a no-fly zone over Kurdish areas in western Iran. This was necessary “so that the Islamic Republic cannot attack from the air and use its…