Right-wing Flemish nationalist Bart De Wever and his Cabinet were sworn in on Monday 240 days after the Belgian elections.

By Koba Ryckewaert and Jeanna Smialek Reporting from Brussels Belgium reached an agreement to form a coalition government on Friday, the nation’s monarchy announced, ending seven months of ...

New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in one of his first acts in the job since being appointed by President Donald Trump, has revoked the personal security detail and security clearance for retired ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in which nearly half a million Hungarian Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis ...

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Languages: English. You can get in touch with Hugh by emailing [email protected] President Trump's State Department has enacted a "one flag policy," banning U.S. embassies and overseas ...

The U.S. State Department has adopted a new policy under the Trump administration that effectively blocks U.S. embassies and outposts from flying Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, a report said ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Right-wing extremists are celebrating Elon Musk’s straight-arm gesture during a speech Monday, although ...

The gesture bore the hallmarks of 20th-century fascist salutes used by the Nazi Party and evoked direct comparisons to the Roman salute, which was adopted by the brutal Italian dictator Benito ...

FOR THE first time in living memory, I was the only passenger in a TSA security line at a major airport — Tucson, noon on a Friday, a time you’d expect Arizonans to be heading for Nome or ...

It was their final, most essential command.” The brazenness and severity of Trump’s fascist politics, and those of his merry band of oligarchs, will continue in the coming days. It is a circus of ...