Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) scored its biggest electoral success to date Sunday, winning about 44 percent of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt and inflicting a crushing defeat on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives.

A crowd gathered outside Hungary’s parliament over the weekend for a right-wing anti-government rally, underscoring efforts by conservatives to regroup after longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lost power to Péter Magyar amid public outrage over reported widespread corruption and mounting economic challenges.

At least 10 people have been killed and 64 injured, including children and two priests, after stored fireworks exploded during a Catholic festival in central Mexico, officials said.

U.S. peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday as the Trump administration intensified efforts to restart negotiations aimed at ending the nearly five-year war between Russia and Ukraine.

Indonesia halted operations at six airports Sunday, including the main international airport near Jakarta, the capital, disrupting hundreds of flights after the Anak Krakatau volcano spewed ash high into the atmosphere.

Two of U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s top envoys arrived in rainy Moscow on Saturday carrying what he described as a proposal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, following another round of deadly Russian missile and drone strikes.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has called the war with Iran “small potatoes,” despite reports that thousands have been killed across the Middle East, including 18 American military personnel.

President Donald Trump warned Friday that the United States may soon strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, a deeply fortified underground site near the Natanz uranium enrichment complex, as tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program continue to sharpen.

The United States, Britain, France, and Germany are pressing the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council, accusing Tehran of violating its nuclear obligations and refusing to fully account for its enriched uranium stockpile.

A new U.S.-Saudi civilian nuclear agreement could eventually give Riyadh a pathway to enrich uranium up to 20%, raising fresh concerns in Washington over nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, according to a Wall Street Journal exclusive.

Syria has begun destroying chemical weapons materials left behind by the Assad regime, marking the first known destruction process of its kind in the country in roughly a decade, officials told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.

Tens of thousands of Spaniards poured into streets and public squares across the country Wednesday, protesting the government’s handling of the migrant crisis in Ceuta and demanding stronger protection of Spain’s borders.

Slovakia’s government of Prime Minister Robert Fico has approved joining an international commission assessing compensation claims stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite Moscow reportedly warning that such a move would be considered a “hostile act.”

More than a dozen members of Serbia’s influential student movement and opposition figures were targeted with sophisticated spyware ahead of parliamentary elections, according to investigators, fueling concerns about government surveillance in what researchers call the country’s largest documented wave of such spying.

Estonia’s parliament has elected constitutional lawyer and human rights ombudsman Ülle Madise as the Baltic nation’s next president as the country sharply increases defense spending amid concerns about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.