Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. local time on Sunday in Bulgaria’s presidential election, a contest shaped by drone strikes on Black Sea shipping and by a cost-of-living squeeze in the European Union’s poorest member state. Iliana Iotova, who has…
At a Saturday rally in Perry, Georgia, President Donald Trump said Audi would place a $4 billion factory in the state — €3.77 billion — and that it would turn out 200,000 SUVs per year. The German automaker, a Volkswagen…
Serbia votes Sunday in a parliamentary election that tests whether Aleksandar Vucic’s long dominance can survive the Students’ List, a youth-backed force born from nearly two years of street protest. Polls point to a tight race between Vucic’s right-wing populist…
Attorneys for people abused by Catholic clergy said Saturday that claimants have accepted an $800 million (€714 million) accord with the New York archdiocese, concluding years of litigation. New York’s archdiocese proposed the package in May, and formal signatures are…
Satellite links used by Ukraine’s armed forces were running at normal speed again on Saturday, closing out more than a week of throttling that Kyiv says crippled drone interception and forced commanders to shelve operations. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Starlink,…
Staff from Japan’s foreign ministry spent this week in Moscow trying to reach Yuki Imai, a correspondent detained in Russia’s Far East on suspicion of espionage. The FSB, Russia’s security service, picked up Imai, 34, on October 14 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,…
Kim Jong Un crossed into China on Saturday through the New Yalu River Bridge, reaching Dandong, the border city facing North Korea. The four-lane span brought the North Korean leader into Chinese territory, and state media there reported that he…
Japanese Foreign Ministry officials in Moscow spent this week trying to reach Yuki Imai, a Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent held in Russia’s Far East on a spying allegation. The FSB detained him on October 14 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island. Broadcast…
The parliament seated in eastern Libya voted unanimously on Tuesday to endorse a maritime pact with Turkey, overturning its own earlier refusal and opening the way for an economic sea corridor linking the two countries. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry welcomed the…
Guinea-Bissau will not hold the legislative and presidential ballots fixed for 6 December 2026. Aly Silva, who speaks for Ilidio Vieira Te, the transitional prime minister, told DW the contest has been deferred with no fresh date. The cabinet will…
Chancellor Friedrich Merz closed the Christian Social Union’s two-day conference in Munich on Saturday by drawing two hard lines for Germany’s conservative camp — one against the far-right Alternative for Germany, the other against Moscow — while promising voters cheaper…
France deployed officers nationwide on Saturday, October 24, 2026, as demonstrations, a National Rally gathering in Orléans and heavy security in Paris converged. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said 135 people had been detained and weapons taken. Museums and landmarks shut…
One day after the Delhi High Court refused to intervene in a police notice, AISA national president Neha Bora announced on Saturday that they would refuse to sign the Rs 10,000 peace bond it demands. Bora, who uses they/them pronouns,…
Taiwan counted the cost on Saturday after Typhoon Champi, briefly a super typhoon this week, sideswiped the island’s northeast, killing one man, injuring hundreds and blacking out more than 340,000 homes. The Central Weather Administration called off its land warning…
France is bracing for another round of nationwide demonstrations on Saturday, with Interior Minister Laurent Nunez saying on Friday that online messages urging violence and looting had been detected and that 70,000 police officers would be deployed to keep order.…
