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Burundi last month nominated former Senegalese President Macky Sall to succeed United Nations Secretary‑General Antonio Guterres, whose second and final term ends on December 31, 2026. In ​his vision statement for the role, Sall said the UN needed to be reformed, streamlined and modernized. But Senegal said in a diplomatic note to the African Union

Skip next section Oil tankers avoiding Strait of Hormuz ahead of announced US blockade April 13, 2026 Oil tankers avoiding Strait of Hormuz ahead of announced US blockade Despite US assurances that a planned blockade of Iranian ports on Monday will not restrict transit through the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway is being avoided by most

Hungarian voters turned out in force on Sunday to deliver a landslide victory to pro-European candidate Peter Magyar, who has pledged to turn the country away from its far-right, authoritarian course under Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Magyar's center-right Tisza party is set to gain 138 seats in Hungary's 199-seat parliament, giving it five seats more

A yearlong international investigation into one of the world's most important cancer drugs shows how a medical breakthrough has also become a fault line in global health, exposing how pricing systems, patent protections and regulatory frameworks determine who can access life-saving treatment and who cannot. The Cancer Calculus, coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Over 100 people were killed in an airstrike on a Jilli village market in northeast Nigeria, Amnesty International said on Sunday, citing survivors of the bombing. "Witnesses said three military jets fired on the market yesterday. Emergency section of Geidam General Hospital had so far received 35 people with severe injuries," the international human rights

Both sides blamed the other for the breakdown of peace talks in Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday after a marathon session failed to deliver a deal to end the war sparked six weeks ago by US-Israeli attacks on Iran. US officials said the negotiations fell apart because Iran would not commit to abandoning its nuclear program.

Ukraine and Russia both marked Orthodox Easter on Sunday by accusing each other of thousands of breaches of an agreed Easter truce. In Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended a service at the city's St. Sophia Cathedral during which he praised his country for withstanding more than four years of Russian invasion, saying: "We place

Fatuma Muhumed is glowing as she arrives for an interview with DW just hours before her inauguration as a local councilor in the Dutch municipality of Apeldoorn — her first political office, on top of her job as a lawyer. Her election was far from certain: She was ranked 15th on the candidate list of the left-leaning GroenLinks-PvdA

Polling stations closed in Benin as people in the West African nation voted for a new president on Sunday, with Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni expected to coast to victory. Nearly eight million voters were eligible to cast ballots to choose a successor to Patrice Talon, Benin's outgoing president who is stepping down after reaching his limit of two

At the moment, governments in more than a dozen countries are trying to limit minors' access to social media. These include France, New Zealand, Norway, Malaysia, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom. Germany is also considering taking action. Australia became the first country in the world to introduce social media bans for users under the age