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World news: wars, diplomacy, elections and the forces reshaping the globe.

  1. World

    A U.N. Special Rapporteur Concluded There Are 'Reasonable Grounds to Believe' the 68 U.S. Strikes That Killed 223 People on Boats in the Caribbean and Pacific 'Constituted Crimes Against Humanity of Murder'

    Ben Saul's briefing note, released by the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday, calls the year-old campaign 'serial extrajudicial killings' and says drug cartels have not staged the armed attack that would trigger a right of self-defense. The White House has not responded.

    4 min read

  2. World

    The AfD Won Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Far-Left Die Linke Won Berlin, and Chancellor Merz's CDU Fell to About 5% in a State Where It Once Governed, the Party's Worst Result Anywhere Since 1945

    Projections put the AfD at roughly 37% to 38% in the northeastern state and Die Linke at about 25% in the capital, where a Turkish-German lawyer named Elif Eralp declared that 'love and justice have triumphed over hatred.' The AfD's co-leader called Merz's response 'more than feeble' and demanded his resignation.

    3 min read

  3. World

    Iran's New Security Chief Says Tehran Has Sent Trump Its Price for Ending the War Through Qatar: Stop Fighting on All Fronts, Unfreeze the Money and Lift the Naval Blockade

    Mohsen Rezaei, a month into the job as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, told Al Jazeera the conditions are with Qatari and Pakistani mediators and Iran is waiting on Washington. The list drops Tehran's earlier demand for reparations, which one U.S. analyst read as movement, though he said Washington would still hear it as 'surrender.'

    4 min read