South Carolina's replacement machinery is now in motion: a temporary appointee, a special Republican primary, a November election. The process will decide more than one seat — it doubles as a test of where the Republican line on Ukraine goes next.
Lindsey Graham died a day after his last visit to Kyiv, leaving his "sanctions from hell" Russia bill without its author at the moment it might pass. The tributes framing his support for Ukraine, trans-Atlantic ties and Israel double as a map of what Washington's allies just lost.
A new arrest in the Ann Widdecombe murder inquiry follows the release of an earlier suspect, reopening scrutiny of UK police handling of the case and the political row it triggered.
The short version: Stefan Evers is now the man who has to clean up after Kai Wegner's resignation, a new Insa poll shows the Union narrowing the gap to the AfD but Merz's own ratings barely moving, and a Welt analysis argues the AfD has stopped being a niche phenomenon. Together, they show why Berlin's local leadership fight is really a preview of the CDU's national problem.
US Senator Lindsey Graham, a driving force behind the bipartisan Russia sanctions bill and one of Congress's most influential voices on Ukraine, has died at 71. His death leaves the legislation's most visible champion gone just as it heads toward a vote.
Typhoon Bavi made full landfall in China's Zhejiang province late Saturday after brushing Taiwan and southern Japan, with more than 1.7 million people evacuated. In Taipei, commentary has sharpened on Beijing's parallel use of legal and political pressure against pro-Taiwan speech during the disruption.
A sitting US congressman says he was held for more than an hour by armed Israeli settlers during a West Bank trip — and now it's a live question of what, if anything, Congress does about it.
From Andalusia's deadliest wildfire in years to Typhoon Bavi hammering Taiwan alongside a new Chinese law against pro-independence speech, plus a CDU leadership scramble in Berlin, a stalled murder probe in Britain, and a DOJ subpoena of NYT reporters — the day in geopolitics in 90 seconds.
Days after NATO's Ankara summit produced a wave of arms orders, Washington added the biggest item yet: licenses letting Ukraine build its own Patriot interceptors. The catch is that the same week produced the opposite signal too — a troop drawdown and a six-month Pentagon review. The order book only holds if Trump's mood does.
President Maia Sandu has nominated pro-European businessman Vasile Tofan to become Moldova's next prime minister, tasking him with reviving a stalled economy and pushing the country's EU accession bid forward after Alexandru Munteanu quit amid scandal.
The Justice Department has subpoenaed four New York Times journalists to testify before a Manhattan grand jury over their reporting on Air Force One security gaps, in a move the paper's lawyer calls an affront to press freedom — and one allies are watching as a signal of how far Washington will go to police unfavorable coverage.
The man arrested over Ann Widdecombe's killing has been released without charge, leaving Devon and Cornwall Police back at square one. Meanwhile a former Sky News presenter's comments about the late minister have pulled British coverage of her death into an unrelated row over sexism in the media.