PoliticsSix high-profile House Freedom Caucus members are leaving Congress for higher office, setting up a significant transformation for the confrontational conservative group and raising questions about its future relationship with Republican leadership and President Trump.
PoliticsGermany is allowing Taliban diplomats into the country as part of a new strategy to facilitate the deportation of Afghan criminals - a deeply controversial but calculated policy shift reported by Deutsche Welle.
PoliticsArmenia votes on June 7 in parliamentary elections that double as a public opinion test on whether the country continues its drift away from Russia and toward the European Union.
PoliticsChilean president Jose Antonio Kast, just three months into office and already dealing with falling approval ratings, unveiled a 'vandal registry' and longer migrant detentions in his first-ever congressional address.
PoliticsPresident Trump has nominated former Oklahoma state trooper and U.S. Marine Lance Schroyer to lead ICE, praising him on Truth Social as a 'PATRIOT with real operational experience' in immigration enforcement.
PoliticsAn ultra-Orthodox party in Netanyahu's coalition is threatening to dissolve parliament over the contentious issue of mandatory military service for Haredi Jewish men, potentially triggering yet another Israeli election.
PoliticsThe Supreme Court voted 6-3 to allow Alabama Republicans to move forward with a congressional map that removes the state's second majority-Black district, handing the GOP a potential pickup ahead of the midterms.
PoliticsKazakhstan has reversed its earlier push toward direct elections for district-level governors, raising serious questions about the credibility of President Tokayev's much-touted democratic reform agenda.
PoliticsThousands of Albanians are protesting a $1.6 billion luxury resort backed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, which is being built on one of the Mediterranean's most ecologically sensitive wetlands - home to flamingos and Dalmatian pelicans.
PoliticsHundreds rallied in New Delhi under the banner of the viral Cockroach Janta Party, demanding that Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan answer for alleged exam irregularities and student suicides linked to India's high-pressure examination system.
PoliticsIsraeli Ambassador Michael Leiter appeared on CBS's Face the Nation on April 12, 2026, with host Margaret Brennan - a high-profile platform for Israel's top U.S. diplomat at a critical moment in the bilateral relationship.
PoliticsRussian caricaturist Robert Kuzovkov, known for satirizing Vladimir Putin under the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky, has been shot dead in Poland in what investigators are treating as a targeted killing.
PoliticsTrump told his negotiators not to rush a peace deal with Iran, walking back earlier optimism while a reported draft agreement would sidestep the nuclear question in favor of reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
PoliticsArmenia headed to the polls in a closely watched election pitting pro-EU Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan against a pro-Russia opposition, with peace talks with Azerbaijan also hanging in the balance.
PoliticsFor the first time, Colombia's Congress is debating a bill to ban female genital mutilation, with Indigenous women from the Embera communities in Risaralda leading the charge against a practice that causes infection, childbirth complications, and death.
PoliticsACT independent senator David Pocock is buying billboards to pressure Treasurer Jim Chalmers into adopting a 25% gas export tax, with charities backing the call ahead of Australia's federal budget.
PoliticsGermany is debating whether to abolish its special law protecting politicians from insults, after years of court cases that many observers have found absurd. Some lawmakers want it gone; others say it still serves a purpose.
PoliticsPortugal has quietly built a surprisingly serious arms industry over the past five years, but its path to true defense autonomy gets complicated fast when the US is still your main ally, according to DW.
PoliticsTrump declared 'start your engines' after a tentative Iran deal, but global shipping through the critical Strait of Hormuz remains cautious and uncertain, with key questions about the waterway still unresolved.
