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The far-right Alternative für Deutschland took 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt on Sept. 6, winning 39 of the 83 seats in the state parliament and falling three short of an outright majority. The Christian […]

Since Sept. 3, Yemen has seen its most intense ground fighting between Ansar Allah and the U.S.-Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) since the 2022 ceasefire. Ansar Allah has won major victories against forces of the […]

For 11 years, Saudi Arabia and its U.S., British and Israeli backers have tried to destroy Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement. They had command of the skies, U.S. and British warplanes and weapons, and the military […]

Sept. 11, 2026 The Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada, has embarked on a mission to do something unprecedented. Its leaders announced they will assert tribal sovereignty to defy a regional ban on providing […]

Sept. 10, 2026   In 2003, before the United States unleashed the war in Iraq, a webcam maintained a fixed shot of Baghdad for hours. The page’s tagline was more important than the technology: “They […]

(World Meteorological Organization, September 3, 2026). El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of […]

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Sept. 7 that Mexican territory “is not and will never be a colony or protectorate of any foreign country,” after U.S. President Donald Trump posted an image featuring a […]