International

Seventy-Two Hours to Save a Chancellorship: Merz Faces His Party After Germany Votes Again

Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania go to the polls on Sunday. The Christian Democratic leadership meets the same evening, and few in the party expect the conversation to be about state politics.

World Politics 

Friedrich Merz will not be in New York next week. The German…

Boko Haram Denies Secret Truce With Abuja, Complicating Nigeria's Counter-Insurgency Strategy

Abuja/Maiduguri, Nigeria 

A senior Boko Haram figure has publicly disavowed a secret ceasefire that Nigerian security officials reportedly negotiated with the group in June, releasing a video this month that rejects any truce and warns attacks will continue — an unusually direct rebuttal that has thrown a…

Libya's Rival Factions Sign Landmark Election Deal, But UN Warns Trust Remains 'Fragile'

Tripoli/New York 

More than a decade after Libyans last cast a ballot in a national election, the country's long-divided political factions have signed a deal that commits them to holding presidential and parliamentary elections within two years under a single, unified executive authority — a breakthrough…

On His 84th Birthday — Now a National Holiday — Mnangagwa Hints He'll Rule Zimbabwe Until 2035

Harare, Zimbabwe 

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa marked his 84th birthday this week the way few democratically elected leaders do: with a brand-new national public holiday declared in his honor, and with a public suggestion that he intends to remain in office for nearly another decade. Speaking at…

A Speech From a Screen: Washington Bars Abbas From the United Nations for a Second Year

The State Department has extended visa sanctions on Palestinian Authority and PLO officials days before the General Assembly's high-level week, forcing the Assembly to decide once more whether a president kept out of New York may address it by video.

Daily World Politics 

For the second…

Kenya's Opposition Draws Thousands to Nairobi as Political Violence Spreads Nationwide Ahead of 2027 Vote

Nairobi  

Kenya's fractured opposition delivered its clearest show of street strength in months on Sunday, when thousands of supporters turned out in Nairobi for a rally led by Senator Edwin Sifuna, testing President William Ruto's grip on the capital nearly a full year before the country returns to the…