Portugal faced a political earthquake Monday after the leader of its center-right Democratic Alliance, Luis Montenegro, claimed victory and the far right surged in early parliamentary elections that could end nearly a decade of Socialist rule.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander has defied calls from more than 200 mosques to stay away from the opening of a Holocaust museum in Amsterdam alongside Israel’s president on Sunday, despite mounting anti-Israel protests and related security concerns.
As thousands of Muslims gathered at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City for prayers on the first night of Ramadan, a video shared on social media depicts Israeli Border Police officers using batons against worshippers at the entrance of the Haram al-Sharif sacred area, also referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount.
On Sunday, the U.S. military announced that it carried out an operation in Haiti to evacuate select staff from the country due to rising violence while also deploying extra forces to enhance the security around the U.S. Embassy in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
A U.S. District Court handed Texas a win in the first round of a case that consolidated two lawsuits filed against the Biden administration for halting border wall construction.
President Joe Biden took aim at the nation’s debt and deficit in his State of the Union address on Thursday, but several of his financial claims were false, according to some budget experts, including his claim that he cut the deficit by $1 trillion last term.
There was uncertainty Sunday about American forces believed to be in Yemen after the country’s Houthi rebels targeted U.S. vessels in the Red Sea, prompting an international response.
Dutch riot police clashed with protesters opposing Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s presence at the opening ceremony of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, which the Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander inaugurated.
Hungary’s hardline Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has met with former American President Donald J. Trump in the U.S. state of Florida, sparking outrage in the White House where the visiting European leader was described as a dictator.
Former President Donald Trump has called U.S. President Joe Biden’s fourth and perhaps last State of the Union address “angry”, “polarizing,” and an “embarrassment” to the United States.
Five people were killed Friday after being hit by aid dropped by the United States in Gaza as at least one parachute failed to deploy correctly and one or more parcels fell on them, according to Israeli sources and Gaza officials.
Parents were praying and hoping their children were alive Friday after gunmen kidnapped more than 200 school pupils in northwestern Nigeria in the biggest mass abduction from a school in a decade.
U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday that the war in Gaza is “gut-wrenching” and urged more humanitarian aid, including through an aid port the American military is setting up.
President Joe Biden delivered a wide-ranging State of the Union address Thursday evening, touching on the economy, Ukraine, the border and more while attacking Republicans during his remarks, possibly his last time to give the address as president.
An undercover human trafficking operation in Florida found that 21 illegal foreign nationals were using papers given to them by the Department of Homeland Security to fly to major cities in the United States for free to engage in sex trafficking, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
The European Central Bank (ECB) kept interest rates at the highest level in its two-and-a-half-decade history despite policymakers claiming progress in their battle against high inflation and other economic headwinds.
Hungary’s controversial Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was to meet former U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who he views as a close ally in his battle against Western criticism over his perceived authoritarian style.
Facing a backlash within his Democratic Party over his support for Israel’s war against Hamas, U.S. President Joe Biden was to announce that the U.S. military would construct a port in Gaza to get humanitarian aid into the territory by sea.
Sweden became the 32nd member of NATO on Thursday in a historic move that will see the military alliance increase its presence in the Nordic territory near Russia as a new Cold War re-emerges.
As China struggles to manage an economic downturn that includes slow growth and high youth unemployment, the ruling Chinese Communist Party announced Tuesday that it is increasing its defense budget by 7.2 percent, the Associated Press reports.