By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
PARIS — French presidential candidates Gabriel Attal, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon will all take the stage Thursday for interviews at POLITICO’s first-ever Playbook Paris event.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to address the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday as conditions in Gaza remained dire for more than two million Palestinians living in the Strip, nearly three years after the war began.
The fire at a Starlink ground station near Warsaw on Wednesday night was an act of sabotage and part of hybrid warfare against Poland, Digital Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said Thursday morning.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal health advisers on Wednesday endorsed a blood test designed to spot signs of various cancers in apparently healthy people while warning that it's far from clear how well the technology works.
A widening gap has emerged between Israeli and American Jews over whether Israeli government policy contributes to the rise in global antisemitism, according to the September 2026 Jewish People Voice Index published by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) on Thursday.
Former prime minister and B’Yachad party chairman Naftali Bennett presented northern local authority leaders on Wednesday with his party's proposed "Confrontation Line Law," which would expand the area eligible for state assistance and increase tax and municipal tax benefits for residents and businesses.
Russia has extended an official invitation to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit the country, a deputy foreign minister said Thursday, according to the TASS state news agency.
Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces repelled overnight attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis on a key supply route to the southern port city of Aden, where the internationally recognized administration is based, government sources said on Thursday.
Otzma Yehudit, founded in 2012, is one of many parties vying for citizens’ votes in the elections for the 26th Knesset, which will be held on October 27.
Leaders of India's 'cockroach' youth movement said on Thursday they would launch protests across the country if the head of the national election authority does not resign within 48 hours.
Lebanon and Syria sought to deepen ties and press on with a new chapter in their relations when Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara met in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
The government of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to ramp up the country’s defense capabilities in its southwestern region following the election of a conservative governor in Okinawa Prefecture for the first time in 12 years.
Morocco’s centre-right Authenticity and Modernity Party, or PAM, has emerged as the largest party in parliamentary elections, according to provisional results announced Thursday.
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Yonhap) -- Russia has invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to visit the country, a Russian deputy foreign minister said, according to the TASS news agency Thursday.
The September 23 vote on the Impeachment Court’s voting threshold is not an indication of the eventual verdict. This was stated by Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian. He stressed that the outcome would depend on the evidence and testimonies presented in the trial. Video by Senate of the Philippines
Australia says on Sept. 23, 2026 that an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorized access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website. The breach is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external syste…
Israel's Central Elections Committee voted on Wednesday to ban the country's two main Arab-majority political lists from next month's parliamentary election, in a move that could leave Palestinian citizens of Israel without their principal representation in the Knesset.
Australian authorities have raised the alarm after OpenAI-powered models hacked into a government health data system in June, slipping past its digital defences and accessing files without authorisation.
Yemen's Saudi-backed forces said on Thursday that they had repelled overnight attacks by the Houthis on a key supply route to the southern port city of Aden, where the government is based.
WASHINGTON – The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump must immediately reinstate White House access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, a U.S. federal judge ordered Thursday, after their reporters were banned from the premises.
Likud has weakened in recent weeks as Ofer Winter draws support from undecided right-wing voters, while the opposition bloc is also eroding, pollster Dr. Menachem Lazar told 103FM on Thursday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's circle is concerned that Ofer Winter could join forces with Avigdor Liberman after the election, and for now the Likud's approach toward him remains unchanged, according to officials familiar with the party's campaign strategy.
The head of the NSW police union has rebuked One Nation leader Mike Newman for using frontline officers for “point-scoring”, after he highlighted a recruitment photo of a young Indigenous officer wearing an Aboriginal flag pin to criticise “DEI political positions”.
China pushed back sharply a day after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi urged the United Nations Charter’s anachronistic “enemy state” clauses be scrapped, insisting the provisions remain relevant despite having once joined an international consensus to remove them.
Sydney’s Archbishop Anthony Fisher has called on the NSW Government to withdraw its $100,000 grant from the Divine Playhouse, accusing the arts outfit of mocking Catholicism with its new resurrection pop-tour after it was evicted from its former home in a deconsecrated church.
Victoria will finally have an anti-corruption watchdog with the authority and powers it needs to do its job after the parliament on its last sitting day before the state election agreed to the most substantial changes to IBAC since its inception.
Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) has won the most seats in parliamentary elections, putting it at the centre of negotiations to form the next government as the country faces pressure to address youth unemployment and prepare for the 2030 World Cup.
Embattled casino juggernaut The Star Entertainment Group has been granted another six months until the Queensland government decides whether to enforce a proposed 90-day licence ban on its Gold Coast venue.