The Netherlands kicked off four days of voted in the European Union when almost 400 million voters can elect 720 members of the European Parliament at a time of turmoil across the continent.
The board of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday passed a resolution censuring Iran for its ongoing refusal to cooperate with the agency’s nuclear watchdog inspectors, the Associated Press reports. The resolution was introduced by France, Germany and Britain.
At least four people, including two Ukrainians, were killed, and some 20 people suffered light injuries when a passenger train collided with a freight train overnight in the Czech Republic, officials said Thursday.
In the second-biggest exercise in democracy behind India’s recent elections, almost 400 million voters will elect 720 members of the European Parliament (EP) from beyond the Arctic circle to the edges of Africa and Asia at a time when Europe faces its most significant armed conflict since World War Two.
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has blamed the opposition for last month’s attempt on his life and said he was punished for anti-war views.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could deploy nuclear bombs and provide long-range weapons to others against Western targets after Ukraine used for the first time U.S. arms to hit sides inside Russia.
A German far-right politician has been injured in a knife attack in the same German city where a police officer was fatally stabbed last week by a suspected Islamist extremist.
A suspected Islamist extremist was shot and captured by Lebanese soldiers after a Wednesday shootout outside the U.S. Embassy near Beirut that injured an embassy security guard, witnesses and officials confirmed.
A prominent Jewish leader has praised a decision by the Dutch fishing town of Urk to welcome Jews who are fearful of rising antisemitism in the country.
As clashes continue between the US and its allies and Iran-backed Houthi Islamic rebels in Yemen, the jihadist terrorists launched anti-ship ballistic missiles at an American vessel in the Red Sea at the weekend, the Washington Times reports.
Authorities in Germany say they believe an Islamist extremist carried out a knife attack in the southwestern city of Mannheim that killed a young police officer and left five others injured.
An emergency open meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday saw the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan clash with China and Russia over North Korea’s continued launches of satellite and ballistic missile technology in violation of UN sanctions, the Associated Press reports.
In a bizarre new gesture of hostility, North Korea (DPRK) has sent some 900 balloons filled with garbage into the territory of its enemy South Korea since May 28, DW reports.
Undeterred by global criticism, the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to conclude a global pandemic treaty by 2025.
In a historic move, Mexico elected its first female and Jewish president, with preliminary results showing Claudia Sheinbaum receiving the most votes.
The United States, Japan, and South Korea have agreed to hold a trilateral joint exercise named Freedom Edge this summer. Following a meeting of the defense ministers from the three allied nations, these exercises will span multiple domains, including land, sea, air, cyber, and space.
China has unveiled the world’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) hospital, with robot doctors who can treat thousands of patients daily.
At least some 100,000 Hungarians, many armed with “No War” signs and Hungarian flags, participated in a “Peace March” to support Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who seeks an end to the war in neighboring Ukraine.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance was projected to win a majority in the six-week-long national election after the last of the country’s hundreds of millions of voters went to the polls.
South Africa was heading towards a national coalition government for the first time since the late Nelson Mandela led the nation to government in the historic 1994 election that ended apartheid, election results suggest.