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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party achieved its strongest-ever electoral result in a Saxony-Anhalt state election on September 7, 2026, securing a landslide victory but falling short of an absolute majority, DW News reports. According to DW News, the result still leaves open the...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the most votes in Saxony-Anhalt state elections, though it fell short of the 50% threshold needed for an absolute majority, TRT World reports. According to TRT World, mainstream parties across Germany's left and center-right have maintained a broad consensus...

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won the state election in Saxony-Anhalt but fell short of a majority, according to TRT World. With other parties refusing to form a coalition with the AfD, the election winner could still be shut out of government.

Thousands of mourners paid respects as the body of Ratko Mladic — the Bosnian Serb commander who died while serving a life sentence for war crimes and genocide — lay in state in Serbia. According to the Associated Press, Serbia proceeded with the event despite...

According to The Guardian's analysis, artificial intelligence datacentres have become unpopular in communities worldwide due to noise, environmental impact, and resource consumption. The report characterizes these facilities as draining local environmental resources while generating profits primarily for US technology companies. The source notes that hyperscale...

A severe drought driven by El Niño conditions is affecting rural Sri Lanka, according to TRT World. Tens of thousands of families now rely on rapidly depleting wells and emergency aid for drinking water and agricultural needs, TRT World reports.

An Israeli airstrike on September 6 destroyed a residential building in Arab Salim, southern Lebanon, killing two women and injuring six others, including two girls, according to eyewitness footage shared by TRT World.

The World Nomad Games concluded in Kyrgyzstan, drawing over 3,000 athletes from more than 100 countries to compete in traditional Central Asian sports over six days. The centerpiece event, Kok-Boru, is a centuries-old equestrian game in which mounted riders compete to carry a goat carcass...

The UN voted to adopt the Equal Earth projection as its official world map, replacing the 16th-century Mercator projection, according to CNN. The Mercator projection, designed for maritime navigation, inflates the size of northern landmasses while shrinking equatorial regions — a distortion that, CNN reports,...

A US airstrike struck a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, Iran on Tuesday, killing civilians, according to TRT World. US Vice President JD Vance responded to the strike on Thursday with the statement 'Sometimes things happen,' TRT World reports. The strike is part of renewed US-Iran...

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon killed at least five people and injured more than 20 others on Friday, September 5, 2026, according to TRT World.

The Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation, Celeste Saulo, has warned that El Niño conditions are 'almost certain' to intensify into a very strong event in the coming months and persist until February 2027, in an interview with Sky News.

Breaking Points hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Iran's recent escalatory actions in the Middle East alongside the Trump administration's reported proposal to rename the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint through which roughly 20% of the world's oil passes. According to Breaking Points,...

A sketch comedy segment that uses the phrase "the world wasn't ready" as its premise, exploring humorous scenarios or commentary on preparedness and expectations.

Houthi forces launched a major offensive along Yemen's Red Sea coast, killing at least 13 government soldiers in escalating clashes, according to TRT World.

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians—Omar, 19, and Khalil, 16—during an attack by settlers on the village of Al Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank, according to TRT World reporting from the scene. Residents describe a pattern of repeated settler attacks and military raids that have...

Inger Andersen, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, stated in an interview with France 24 that decades of what she terms "carbon procrastination" have made exceeding the 1.5°C climate warming threshold inevitable. The focus has shifted from whether the world...

Iran struck two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on September 3, 2026, according to Drop Site News. Drop Site News reports the attack represents an escalation in Middle East maritime tensions and raises concerns about oil supply disruption through one of the world's...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's conservative administration has become Italy's longest-serving uninterrupted government since World War II, surpassing the record previously set by the late Silvio Berlusconi and completing a full term — something generations of Italian leaders failed to do.

The UN World Food Programme has halved food assistance in the occupied West Bank due to severe funding shortages, according to Al Jazeera reporting. The agency simultaneously warned of further cuts in Gaza, where it supports 1.5 million people, unless it receives urgent new funding.