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The nationalist left government’s pro-Russia candidate, Peter Pellegrini, has won Slovakia’s presidential election with about 53 percent of the vote, in an outcome due to worry the West.

Voters in Slovakia were returning to the polls Saturday for the second round of their small country’s presidential election, in which they choose whether to move towards the European Union or Russia.

The United States pledged Thursday that Ukraine will eventually join the U.S.-led NATO military alliance despite Moscow’s opposition and massive overnight Russian attacks.

The Salafi jiahdist Islamic State terror group last week called on its supporters to carry out “lone wolf” attacks on Christians and Jews in Europe, Israel, and the United States, i24News reports.

With thousands dying on the battlefields, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed legislation lowering the draft age from 27 to 25 to shore up the army’s dwindling forces over two years into the war with Russia.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faced his most significant political challenge in recent memory Tuesday as official results confirmed that his party suffered its worst defeat in more than two decades in this weekend’s local elections.

Furious protestors were seen burning American and Israeli flags in Iran on Tuesday, just hours after Tehran vowed revenge for a reported Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria that killed at least a dozen people.

A child has died and two others have been seriously wounded in a shooting at a school in Finland carried out by a minor, police said.

Czech and Polish intelligence services say they have uncovered a Russian network to influence the outcome of the European elections in June, including paying politicians for pro-Kremlin views.

Hungary’s longtime nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán, who has been criticized over his perceived authoritarian style, faces arguably one of the most significant upheavals in his 14-year rule: thousands of Hungarians have demanded his resignation after a prominent critic released a recording allegedly implicating a loyal ally and top minister in a high-profile corruption case.

Ukraine says it has come under massive Russian air strikes on Easter Sunday despite Pope Francis’s appeals for peace and a prisoner swap between Kyiv and Moscow. Russia confirmed Sunday that it conducted a massive strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and natural gas industry, though Kyiv also managed to attack sites in Russia.

The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator is set to smash protons together on April 8, the day millions of people across America hope to catch a glimpse of one of the biggest solar eclipses in decades.

While thousands of kilometers (miles) apart, South Africa and Germany shared in grief on Good Friday as both investigated bus crashes that killed and injured scores of people, including churchgoers.

An hours-long hostage situation in the Dutch eastern town of Ede ended without bloodshed on Saturday after an attacker was detained and taken into police custody, officials said.

Poland and Sweden have warned Europe to prepare for war with Russia and said that nobody should feel safe if Moscow defeats Ukraine.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) launched a central bank digital currency system despite worries the move would lead to more control over people’s finances.

The Netherlands, long known as one of the most liberal and tolerant nations in Europe, is reeling from the worst antisemitic attacks since World War Two.