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Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel, the leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, speaking with reporters on Tuesday outside the German parliament in Berlin. CreditMichael Sohn/Associated Press It has become a new ritual of Western politics: hold an election, watch … Read More

Getty Images MEXICO CITY — As many as 360 buildings and homes are in danger of collapse or with major damage in Mexico City nearly a week after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake collapsed 38 structures. The risk of delayed collapse is real: … Read More

The strong performance of the populist Alternative for Germany party in Sunday’s election has worried Afghan and other Muslim migrants. They fear that AfD’s anti-immigration agenda may make life harder for them. The entry of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) in … Read More

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Amman, Jordan, Jan. 23, 2013.  (Muhammad Hammad/Reuters) On Aug. 15, the Islamist National Alliance for Reform won a surprising number of seats in Jordan’s local elections, including the presidency of three municipalities. … Read More

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of his country’s own Hwasong-12 missile in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 16, 2017. The Trump Administration continues to pound away at … Read More

Christian Democratic Union CDU party leader and German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts on first exit polls in the German general election (Bundestagswahl) in Berlin, Germany, September 24, 2017. Photo By Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have secured enough votes to retain the country’s … Read More

BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) – Jewish groups in Europe and the United States expressed alarm on Sunday at the far-right Alternative for Germany’s success in Germany’s parliamentary election and urged other parties not to form an alliance with the AfD. Early projections … Read More

–Netanyahu sets policy: We won’t meet diplomats who meet with Breaking the Silence –Jewish groups: Fire German official who called pro-Israelis ‘traitors’ An objective observer can fathom why German elections matter for Israel.  German and Israeli national flags . (photo … Read More

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President Trump sent another belligerent tweet directed at North Korea Saturday night, saying that if the country’s foreign minister was speaking for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in his threatening speech at the United Nations, “they won’t be around … Read More

The search continues Sunday for victims buried under the rubble of an office building along Avenida Alvaro Obregon in Mexico City’s Roma district. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) Maria de Jesus, 35, has two legs in casts, deep scrapes … Read More

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Sunday that the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh is “the most urgent refugee emergency in the world” right now. Filippo Grandi told reporters in the Bangladeshi town of Cox’s … Read More

The U.S. may be in for a bad flu season, if Australia is anything to go by. Experts usually look to the southern hemisphere’s influenza season to predict what might start happening here in the fall, and what they are … Read More