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No alternative: With voters turning out in droves, preliminary end results from Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt ballot show the AfD securing 43.8% of the vote, representing 39 seats of the 83-member state parliament. Although this is short of an outright majority, with the official results expected Monday night, it is already being interpreted as a major loss for Merz’ centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) party. This is a party that has led the region of Saxony-Anhalt for 24 years, but only scraped through 17.2% of the votes. Nothing short of a disaster: AfD co-chair Alice Weidel told CNN she expects…

Nepal held a day of mourning on Monday to remember the victims of the devastating 26 August floods, with government offices lowering flags and family members carrying out mourning rituals. Monday is the 13th day since the flooding that has killed more than 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet and left some 5,000 missing including foreigners, according to Nepal’s disaster management agency. In Hindu-majority Nepal, mourning periods last 13 days and close family members stay at home and relatives visit to pay respect. On the 13th day, rituals are held to pray for the departed souls. Several people whose family…

Published on 07/09/2026 – 8:14 GMT+2 Turkey has raised its year-end inflation forecast to 28.4%, Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said on Sunday when he unveiled the country’s medium-term economic programme for 2027-2029. “We expect inflation to start declining again in the fourth quarter of 2026 and to reach 28.4% by the end of the year,” Yilmaz said in a televised address. The new forecast is significantly higher than previous projections. In last year’s medium-term programme covering 2026-2028, the government had forecast year-end inflation at 16%. Under the new programme, inflation is projected to fall to 21% in 2027, 13.5% in…

September is in full swing, and we’re ringing in the autumn vibes with a line-up of events and new releases that will give you goosebumps. From the Bayeux Tapestry’s first appearance in the UK in nearly 1,000 years, to the provocative works of Maurizio Cattelan, and spellbinding magic of Practical Magic 2, this week’s offerings conjure all kinds of wonder and awe. There’s also the release of indie band Bloc Party’s new album, along with a new teen drama Netflix show that calls for evenings spent snuggled under blankets — hot drink in hand, remote in the other. Keep scrolling…

“Ulf Kristersson must come clean about the security crisis,” Andersson told POLITICO in an interview. “These are extremely serious allegations … Russia is the greatest threat to Sweden.” The claims, laid out in a Sept. 3 article by non-governmental group Expo, allege that a female Sweden Democrats official promoted pro-Kremlin narratives for a decade, cultivated ties with a Russian state-backed group in Sweden, and brought Russian family members onto the grounds of the Swedish parliament. The official, Polina Malaberg, who remains employed by the Sweden Democrats, previously held roles linked to parliamentary committees focusing on EU affairs. Reports that Hungary’s…

Published on 07/09/2026 – 8:08 GMT+2•Updated 8:10 Germany will ask the top United Nations court to toss out a case brought against it by Nicaragua on Monday, which accuses Berlin of “facilitating genocide” with its support of Israel. Lawyers for Germany will kick off four days of hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the court based in The Hague that rules on disputes between countries. The case dates back to 2024, following the start of Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Nicaragua urged ICJ judges to impose emergency measures to force Berlin to halt all aid to Israel, in particular…

According to the European Commission, the construction sector is responsible for over 35% of the EU’s total waste generation. The greenhouse gas emissions from material extraction and the manufacturing of construction products, as well as the construction and renovation of buildings, are estimated to produce 5-12% of total national GHG emissions. “The global construction sector has doubled its carbon footprint in the last three decades and is set to double it again by 2050,” Dr. Subhra Bhattacharjee told Euronews. But with more than two million homes needing to be built every year across the bloc to meet current demand —…

On 28 August, the MTG-I2 (Meteosat Third Generation Imager-2) satellite lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou aboard an Ariane 6 rocket, on the launcher’s ninth mission and its first flight to a geostationary transfer orbit. With this launch, ESA and Eumetsat complete the first operational trio in the Meteosat Third Generation constellation, stationed 36,000 kilometres above the equator to keep constant watch on Europe’s weather, the Mediterranean and North Africa. To understand what this satellite really changes, we spoke to someone who has spent decades interpreting satellite images in his day-to-day work: Panos Giannopoulos, a meteorologist at the Hellenic…

Here’s a confession – this is actually “take two” of this specific travel tale. Originally, I had started writing about how a relaxing week-long outdoorsy holiday in Spain had evolved into a mega summer road trip starting in Barcelona, spending a few days in scenic mountain villages and then taking an “eclipsed-sized detour” to San Sebastian. And back again. Then I realised, just like my itinerary planning and driving skills, that it was all getting a bit too chaotic and veering away from what I really wanted to talk about: and that is the Spanish Pyrenees. Had I continued venturing…

Ein politisches Beben erschüttert Sachsen-Anhalt und schickt Schockwellen bis ins Konrad-Adenauer-Haus. Während die AfD ihren größten Wahlerfolg feiert, steht die halbierte CDU vor einer Zerreißprobe: Ist Friedrich Merz der eigentliche Verlierer dieses Abends? Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert die Krisenstimmung bei den Christdemokraten und klärt, wie massiv der Druck auf Ministerpräsident Sven Schulze wächst. Bei der AfD pocht Spitzenkandidat Ulrich Siegmund nicht mehr so laut auf den alleinigen Regierungsauftrag, doch was passiert, wenn die Mehrheit am Ende fehlt? Pauline von Pezold berichtet von der AfD-Wahlparty. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview blickt der Berliner CDU-Spitzenkandidat und Finanzsenator Stefan Evers auf seinen eigenen Wahlkampf gegen den noch…