Frank-Walter Steinmeier is making his first journey to China in eight years, a five-day visit that places him in Beijing while Germany tries to protect an economic relationship it still needs and simultaneously limit the dangers that come with it.…
Jordanian security forces detained three men on Monday morning over the assault on mourners at a Greek Orthodox church last Friday, an operation that ended with the suspects wounded and no reported harm to the officers involved. Nine people died…
As midterm elections in the United States draw near, psychologists continue to probe a deceptively basic issue: whether a person’s tendency to recoil predicts a socially conservative outlook, or whether political values determine the things that provoke revulsion. A review…
Published and updated on October 26, 2026, this report covers a day when Indian politics was convulsed by an unscripted sentence from Mallikarjun Kharge, president of the Indian National Congress. At a Bihar party gathering, Kharge invoked Prime Minister Narendra…
Brazil’s electoral authorities said on October 26, 2026 that Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the country’s president, had captured a fourth term, recovering from a first-round loss to defeat right-wing rival Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff. The nearly 81-year-old leftist…
Brazil began tallying its presidential election on October 25, 2026, with the result expected to be tight but potentially known within hours thanks to electronic voting. The Supreme Court extended polling to 7 p.m. local, or 2200 GMT, adding two…
Brazilian election workers started tallying ballots on Sunday, October 25, 2026, after polls closed in a presidential contest that the country’s electronic voting system could resolve in a few hours. Even with that speed, the final margin was widely expected…
Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s long-serving strongman, conceded on Sunday that his Serbian Progressive Party had lost a parliamentary election to a student-led bloc — a result that ends more than ten years of SNS dominance and elevates a movement forged during…
Brazil’s presidential vote on Sunday, October 25, 2026, will run two hours longer than planned after the Supreme Court ordered polls to stay open until 7 p.m. in Brazil, or 2200 GMT. The court acted as each campaign raised objections…
Polls opened across Serbia on Sunday for a parliamentary vote that is too close to call and may halt the SNS’s grip on government after more than ten years. Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party faces the Students’ List, a new…
Kenya and Nigeria are tracing their first Ebola patients to one Ugandan airport on one day. Africa CDC says both were at Entebbe airport in Uganda on October 3. Uganda reports no active infections, and Switzerland challenges Kampala’s version of…
Serbians cast ballots on Sunday in an early national election that surveys say is too close to call, with the governing SNS of Aleksandar Vucic facing the possibility of losing its hold after more than ten years. The challenger drawing…
Embers glowing inside the gutted Kehlsteinhaus, the Alpine guesthouse above Berchtesgaden better known as the Eagle’s Nest, burst back into flames overnight into Sunday, two days after a blaze left one of the most notorious surviving structures of the Nazi…
Brazil’s presidential contest reaches its final vote on Sunday, when incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tries to secure another term and Flavio Bolsonaro, a sitting senator, seeks to move from the chamber into the presidency. Flavio is the child…
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,…
