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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 6, 2026.
Ulrich Siegmund's party more than doubled its 2021 result and left Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats at 18.5% after 24 years running the state. Every other party still refuses to govern with it.
Ulrich Siegmund, 35, could become the first far-right state premier in Germany's postwar history. Every party but one has refused to govern with him, which makes an outright majority his only route.
A Paris appeals court convicted the far-right leader of embezzlement and ordered her to wear an electronic monitor, but Le Pen says she'll appeal to France's highest court and 'campaign without an electronic bracelet.'
A Thuringian court overturned a ban on the far-right party's congress just hours before it opened, as tens of thousands flooded the city trying to shut it down.
Demonstrators clashed with anti-racism protesters in Brighton, Liverpool, Sheffield and Glasgow after a Belfast knife attack ignited violence that burned families out of their homes.
For the first time since World War II, a member of a neo-Nazi party has advanced to a mayoral runoff in Germany, raising concerns about the far-right's growing influence in eastern regions.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used language echoing European far-right parties while commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the Normandy landings, reflecting Trump administration immigration rhetoric.
The election will determine whether the country continues with its first leftist government or shifts toward a traditional conservative or far-right outsider candidate.
Police deploy thousands of officers to keep far-right and pro-Palestinian demonstrators apart as tens of thousands march through the capital.
Organizers of the Together Alliance rally claimed half a million people took to the streets from Park Lane to Whitehall, fueled by anger at Reform UK's surge in the polls and what marchers called the mainstreaming of racism and Islamophobia.