Trump issued a threat to Minnesota Democrats on Tuesday in a social media post where he claimed, without evidence, that they were causing unrest throughout the state....
Since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has stood in opposition. In 2026, it hopes to win state-level governing power and perhaps more....
The deployment was announced the same day the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland met with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington....
The unresolved Cyprus problem leaves Turkish Cypriots in a state of limbo within the European Union, without full EU rights, recognition or political certainty and economically and diplomatically isol...
Protesters are putting their lives on the line in Iran as the state mounts a coordinated and brutal response to the unrest. As death toll grows, hopes of outside help seem faint....
Danish and Greenlandic officials said they still have a “fundamental disagreement” with President Donald Trump over Greenland after meeting in Washington with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday a "state of emergency" will be declared in the energy sector, after relentless Russian strikes on heat and electricity supplies during freezing wi...
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Several state prosecutors have reportedly resigned over the lack of a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. The US Justice Department denies the...
The Bavarian state is to give over €1 million to a man who spent 13 years in jail on murder charges that were overturned. Prosecutors had previously called for him to pay for board and lodgings in jai...
The number of foreign students enrolling in US universities has declined Eduard Figueres/Getty Images Graduate international student enrollment in US colleges fell by 5.9% in fall 2025. The drop comes...
US President Donald Trump threatens to deploy military forces to quell protests in Minnesota, as tensions run high over the role of ICE officers in the city....
A Paris appeal court will decide whether the far-right figurehead can run for president in 2027, as attention increasingly turns to her 30-year-old protégé and MEP Jordan Bardella....
Germany's GDP grew 0.2% in 2025, ending a run of two consecutive years of recession, new figures show. The justice minister wants to combat the misuse of AI to create sexualized images. DW has more...
Democratic history is a timeline of states acting to curb over-mighty figures, from kings to business tycoons...
China’s top counter-espionage agency has warned that overseas entities are attempting to steal the country’s geographic data through covert mapping operations that threaten national security. Foreign ...
Klingbeil listed a string of reasons for his belief that ties between the United States and Europe, traditionally close allies, were radically changing....
Last week, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum ordering the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organisations as they "no longer serve American interests," the White House sai...
Moldova's president Maia Sandu recently stated in a podcast that she would vote in favor of her country joining Romania in the event of a referendum. Her comments have caused outrage....
The US attack on Venezuela is part of a long history of military interventions and political influence by the United States in Latin America. Here are five such examples since World War II....