Skip next section WATCH: Tripura's young girls rescued from child marriage March 19, 2026 WATCH: Tripura's young girls rescued from child marriage In India, approximately four thousand five hundred underage girls are forcibly married every day.
US President Donald Trump has asked China to postpone his planned visit to Beijing because of the Iran war. "I think it's important that I be here," Trump said in Washington on Monday. The move comes as the US-Israeli war with Iran expands and the United States faces growing military and economic pressure.
Japan's PM to visit Trump as president continues pleas for help with Strait of Hormuz Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) listens as U.S. President Donald Trump (L) speaks to troops aboard USS George Washington on October 28, 2025 in Yokosuka, Japan.
In German politics, the rule is supposed to be simple: no cooperation with the far right. The "Brandmauer" — the firewall against the far-right populist AfD party — is treated as a democratic red line, at least at a national level.
It was an idea US President Donald Trump first floated in October last year: a triumphal arch in Washington, DC to mark the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence on July 4.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol Building on March 4 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America When Sarah Lindbo's 14-year-old daughter Greta is thriving, she is playful, engaged and not in pain.
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 25: Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) (L), accompanied by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) (R), speaks during a nomination hearing for Dr. Casey Means, for the medical director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service and U.S.
An attendee holds a U.S. and Israeli flag at an October 7th memorial rally near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7, 2024. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images From New Jersey to North Carolina to Tuesday's primaries in Illinois, Israel has risen as an issue in Democratic primaries.
Daniel Biss, the mayor of Evanston, Ill., sits for a portrait at his campaign office on February 28, 2026, ahead of the Illinois primary.
Kosovo, Europe’s youngest country and the second-smallest nation in the Western Balkans with a population of 1.7 million, has fallen short of political and institutional stability for more than a year.
Skip next section Thank you for reading March 15, 2026 Thank you for reading The results from the Hesse local elections have already started to trickle in, but it will likely not be clear for a while how the various parties have fared.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro (left), Brazil's federal Supreme Court minister Alexandre de Moraes and Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, have all been sanctioned by the Trump administration.