Rival Hungarian Parties Stage Competing Rallies Before Vote
Hungary's ruling and opposition parties each held major rallies on Sunday as they race to shore up support ahead of hotly contested elections on April 12.
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Kenyan FM flies to Moscow to halt illicit military recruitment
Kenya's Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi departed for Moscow on Sunday to press Russian authorities to end the recruitment of Kenyan citizens into the Russian military for the war in Ukraine.
French municipal vote tests far-right ahead of 2027
Voters in France are going to the polls on Sunday in muncipal elections that are being considered as a final major gauge of political sentiment in the country ahead of a presidential vote next year.
India-born priest to become Germany's first non-European bishop
He himself calls it a 'strong signal:' A man with non‑European roots serving as a Catholic bishop in Germany.
Germany’s BKA at 75: From Contested Origins to AI-era Risks
Transparency and self-criticism were long taboo at Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). It wasn't until 2007 that the agency, Germany's central federal policy force, began to subject its own history to scrutiny.
Maria Kolesnikova Accepts Charlemagne Prize in Aachen
Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova was personally handed the Charlemagne Prize on Saturday after having been awarded it in absentia in May 2022. The ceremony was held in the western city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia state. The Charlemagne Prize recognizes people who have worked to advance European unity.
Jürgen Habermas, influential philosopher, dies at 96
Jürgen Habermas, world-renowned German philosopher and sociologist, has died in the town of Starnberg near Munich, where he has lived since 1971, the Suhrkamp publishing house said.
Germany's Greens: Center Strategy or Leftward Turn?
The narrow victory in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg on March 8 was a liberation for the battered ecologist Green Party.
Explosion at Amsterdam Jewish School
A Jewish school in Amsterdam was hit by an explosion early on Saturday in what the city's mayor called "a deliberate attack against the Jewish community." The explosion on Saturday is the latest in a spate of suspected attacks against Jewish institutions in recent weeks.
Russia Accused of Trying to Sway Hungary’s Election
The small black plaque on the facade of house No. 99 on Budapest’s grand Andrassy Boulevard marks an episode that happened in November 1956, when Soviet troops invaded Hungary and brutally crushed the country's short-lived uprising against the Communist Party.
High-tech warfare in Ukraine’s 'death zone'
The corn in the fields stands several feet tall — it hasn’t been harvested in a long time. Villages are destroyed and deserted. Burnt-out car wrecks line the roadsides. There is no sign of fighting — the area in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border looks downright eerie.
Kosovo Serbs Fear Impact of New Foreigners Law
Almost two decades on from Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia, much remains disputed. Scores of countries still do not recognize Kosovo — including Serbia itself, five EU member states and giant economies such as India, Brazil and Indonesia. Meanwhile, Russia and China offer crucial backing to Serbia's non-recognition.