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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's successor will be ex-Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. The two politicians received the most votes in the vote in the conservative parliamentary group on Wednesday, as the head of the...

The federal executive of the AfD is applying for a two-year ban from office for the member of the Bundestag Dirk Spaniel. According to WELT information, the party leadership decided in a board meeting on Monday to join the...

After his failed resignation bid, Mario Draghi is ready to stay on as Italian prime minister. In a speech in the Senate on Wednesday, the non-party economist called on the government parties, which have recently been at odds, to...

The new head of the federal anti-discrimination agency, Ferda Ataman, has rejected criticism of her person. "I put my finger in the wound, and of course not everyone thinks it's great," said Ataman of the weekly newspaper "Zeit" and...

Sri Lanka's parliament has elected Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new head of state. Parliamentary Secretary-General Dhammika Dissanayake said in Colombo on Wednesday that he received the votes of 134 out of a total of 225 MPs. Two...

In the trial of well-known US right-wing populist Steve Bannon for obstructing Congress, prosecutors have accused the defendant of considering himself above the law. "The defendant has determined that he is above the law," prosecutor Amanda Vaughn said Tuesday...

Anyone who complains about a shift to the right by the AfD in 2022 is late. It has been more than seven years since the first federal chairman, Bernd Lucke, left the party on the grounds that he did...

In the debate about extending the lifespan of nuclear power plants, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has received severe criticism from Berlin. The deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, Matthias Miersch, told the Bayern media group: "Mr....

Politicians from the Greens and the FDP have sharply criticized Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer for his demand that the Ukraine war be "frozen". "This proposal damages the reputation of the Federal Republic of Germany," said Green Party member...

In June, WELT reported on a speech by Palestinian activist Tareq Baconi at the House of World Cultures (HKW). Before a left-liberal audience, Baconi conjured up anti-Semitic motifs and expressed himself clearly anti-Zionist. The audience acknowledged this with excited...