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Sep 7, 2026 - World

Chief of nuclear watchdog says secret Assad-era facility would have been able to produce fissile material A nearly complete nuclear reactor built secretly during the rule of the toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad would have been able to produce fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons, the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog has revealed.Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last month visited two sites, one in Deir ez-Zor and a second in an undisclosed location identified to them by Syrian authorities. Continue reading...

Sep 7, 2026 - World

President Trump's social media posts taunting America's neighbors are drawing backlash from their leaders.

Sep 7, 2026 - World

Saxony-Anhalt win part of wider trend driven by mainstream policy failures and gradual normalisation of far right ideasThe numbers speak for themselves: Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party that dabbles in Nazi imagery, distinguishes between “biological” and “passport” Germans, and is too extreme even for France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen, nearly doubled its score in Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt to 43.8% of the vote.Meanwhile, the centre-right CDU of the chancellor, Friedrich Merz, collapsed to 17.2%, less than half its total in the same race five years ago, and the centre-left SPD – Germany’s other main party of government for the past 60-odd years – scraped 9.3%. The least that can be said is that the centre did not hold. Continue reading...

Sep 7, 2026 - World

Russia on Monday ordered the closure of Germany's consulate in St. Petersburg in response to what it said were the "unfriendly actions of the German authorities" who shuttered Moscow's consulate in Bonn, along with the Russia House cultural center in Berlin.

Sep 7, 2026 - World

German chancellor says vote for far-right party ‘will have repercussions’ across the countryFar-right AfD wins key German state election but falls just short of majorityAfD’s Chrupalla continues in this vein, saying the German public wants to see a change in direction, and specifically saying the electorate is “fed up” as the government keeps “transferring billions of our tax money to Ukraine … instead of using it for our own population.”He says the party has “a clear mandate” to rule in Saxony-Anhalt and will hold discussions with others about what can be done. Continue reading...