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This Sunday’s vote in Baden-Württemberg — a state of some 11 million people and the cradle of Germany’s increasingly troubled auto industry — is the first in a series of five state votes seen as key tests of the national mood, particularly as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) vies for first place in many national polls. For most of Germany’s postwar history, national elections have been dominated by either the the center-right Christian Democrats or the center-left Social Democrats, with the FDP choosing at varying times to form coalition governments with both of these parties. It served as a junior…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a direct apology to his country’s neighbors on Saturday as Israeli fighter jets unleashed a massive overnight bombardment on the Iranian capital. In a prerecorded address broadcast on state television, Pezeshkian said that he would seek to to deescalate tensions with Iran’s neighbors following a week of cross-border missile and drone exchanges. The Iranian president said that the country’s interim leaderhip council, appointed after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last Saturday, had approved a new directive on responding to military threats, according to a copy of the remarks published by state-controlled broadcaster…
In a significant development that is expected to bring relief to the Gulf states and to rattled energy markets, Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian announced on Saturday that the interim leadership council decided and instructed Iran’s armed forces that “from now on they should not attack neighboring countries or fire missiles at them, unless we are attacked from those countries.” In addition, Pezeshkian apologised to Iran’s neighbours explaining that “what happened was that our commanders and our leader lost their lives following the barbaric aggression and our armed forces, the champions that are sacrificing their lives to defend our territorial integrity,…
The Dutch leader also questioned what the ultimate objective of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign is. “The main question remains: when will the attacks be considered successful?” Jetten said, adding that, before being able to pass judgment on whether or not his government is supportive of the methods chosen by the U.S. and Israel in Iran, they will need to “understand what the intentions and goals are with these attacks.” After days of mixed signals from the White House on the justifications and aims of the war on Iran, Trump on Friday said his administration’s ultimate goal is “unconditional surrender” by…
Updated: 07/03/2026 – 10:21 GMT+1 Three people were killed and 12 others injured after a tornado was believed to have struck the Union Lake area in the US state, authorities said. Powerful storms swept across the state on Friday, damaging buildings and knocking down trees as tornado warnings were issued across southern Michigan. … More
6:49 GMT+1 Iran Guards say ‘waiting’ for US forces to escort ships through Hormuz Strait Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they were waiting for US forces to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway where traffic remains strangled as the regional war rages.”We are waiting for their presence,” said Guards spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini, after the US energy secretary announced the Navy was preparing to escort ships through the strait “as soon as it’s reasonable to do it.””We recommend that before making any decision, the Americans remember the fire of the American supertanker Bridgeton in 1987…
To say that António Lobo Antunes left an indelible mark on Portuguese literature in the 20th century and the first decades of this century would be a major understatement. No Portuguese author, other than 1998 Noble Literature Prize laureate José Saramago, who died in 2010, has been so widely translated and studied, both in Portugal and abroad, influencing several generations of readers and peers. The war in Angola, where he worked as a military doctor from 1970 to 1973, would mark his entire oeuvre. From first novels _-“Memory of an Elephant” and “_The Land at the End of the World”…
Following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the succession at the head of the Islamic Republic remains unresolved. No new Supreme Leader has yet been formally named. Behind the scenes, however, Mojtaba Khamenei — the 56-year-old son of the assassinated Supreme Leader — has emerged as the frontrunner to succeed his father, though no formal announcement has been made. Khamenei has never run for office or been subjected to a public vote, but for decades has been a highly influential figure in the inner circle of the Supreme Leader, cultivating deep ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Critics…
Published on 07/03/2026 – 6:22 GMT+1•Updated 6:28 Explosions sent up clouds of dark smoke in the Iranian capital early on Saturday and Tehran retaliated by firing missiles at Israel as the United States warned of a forthcoming bombing campaign that officials said would be the most intense yet in the weeklong conflict. Video showed explosions flashing and smoke rising over western Tehran as Israel said it had begun a broad wave of strikes. Also early on Saturday, loud booms sounded in Jerusalem and incoming missiles from Iran had people heading to bomb shelters across Israel. In a sign of the…
In the activist’s view, a Tisza victory would reflect a broad anti-Orbán coalition rather than affection for Magyar — similar to Labour’s 2024 victory in Britain, which was less about public enthusiasm for Keir Starmer than a desire to end Conservative rule. And so maybe voters wouldn’t care what baggage Magyar brought with him. Will Vladimir Putin save Orbán? It isn’t just a sex tape people are bracing for. With nominations now closed, András Rácz, an analyst at the German Council on Foreign Relations, is watching for Russian influence operations to ramp up. So far, that front has been relatively…