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US immigration officers on Monday have detained a former Brazilian intelligence chief who fled to the United States after being convicted for his role in a coup plot. Alexandre Ramagem was convicted to 16 years in prison for his role in failed scheme to overturn Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's 2022 election victory over Jair

A federal judge has tossed out US President Donald Trump's $10 billion (€8.5 billion) defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its owners, which include Rupert Murdoch. In his ruling, Judge Darrin P. Gayles said Trump hadn't come close to meeting the "actual malice" threshold that ‌public figures must clear in defamation cases. This

"Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight," said Ursula von der Leyen on election night. The country was reclaiming its European path, she wrote on X, adding that the European Union would become stronger as a result. European Council President Antonio Costa praised the record turnout as a sign of Hungarians’ "democratic spirit" and said

US President Donald Trump on Monday deleted his own social media post where he portrayed himself as a Jesus-like figure. The AI-generated image, which was posted on his Truth Social platform late on Sunday night, showed Trump dressed in a flowing white and red robe, putting his hands on a sick man in a way typically associated

Pilots with Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo and subsidiary Eurowings began a 48-hour strike on Monday morning. The airline is also facing a cabin crew work stoppage right after the pilots end their strike. Lufthansa is struggling to negotiate terms both with the pilots' trade union Vereinigung Cockpit and the UFO cabin crew union that called on

How will Trump's blockade of Iranian oil work? After US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan collapsed at the weekend, US President Donald Trump said the US Navy would block ships entering or leaving any Iranian port or coastal facility via the Strait of Hormuz. Until the war began in late February, a fifth of the world's seaborne

The end of the Orban era began with a simple Facebook post on a blue background at 9:11 p.m. CET on Sunday evening. The message, posted by Hungary's opposition leader Peter Magyar, was concise and to the point: "Prime Minister Viktor Orban just congratulated me on the phone on our victory." Although only about half

At Sunday's memorial service, actor and author Hape Kerkeling spoke about his grandfather, Hermann Kerkeling, a survivor of the Holocaust. "He was not a man of many words, but a man of action. A carpenter from Recklinghausen who knew how to get things done," Kerkeling recalled. On the roll‑call square of the former Buchenwald concentration camp