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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is “very, very close” to taking power, its deputy parliamentary leader has told the BBC, after a historic victory in elections for the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Sunday’s preliminary results show it fell three seats short of an outright majority, with 43.8% of the vote. It is now seeking […]

China is pumping tens of billions of dollars into eight state-owned banks and insurance companies to help shore up the country’s financial system and boost its slowing economy. The cash injection, which is being led by China’s finance ministry, will total 360 billion yuan ($53.6bn; £39.7bn), state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday. The outlet […]

Indonesia is in the throes of a wildfire catastrophe. Amid a so-called “Super El Niño” that has supercharged local drought conditions, thousands of active fire hotspots are spreading and multiplying across the country, fuelling a transnational haze crisis that is the region’s worst in more than a decade. But what makes Borneo’s fires particularly worrying […]

Such experiences have fuelled calls from student activists and opposition politicians to scrap the NTA altogether. Educationists argue that scrapping the agency would not solve the underlying problem. The NTA needs deep structural reform to address recurring failures, but abolishing it is not the answer, said M Jagadesh Kumar, former chairman of India’s universities regulator. […]

Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is celebrating as exit polls show they are set to win more than 44% of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD’s projected result is higher than earlier opinion polls suggested and the party has hailed the news as a “historic outcome”. However, party leaders will […]

Germany’s AfD is heading for a big victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of its mainstream rivals, exit polls say. It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern. The far-right party is projected […]

Many of the students staying there were thought to be in their rooms at the time of the collapse as there were no lessons on Sunday. A legislative assembly member said at the scene that some of the trapped students had been making calls from under the rubble. Eyewitnesses told local media that another building […]

More than 10 days after a wall of ice, rock and mud tore through a Himalayan valley in Nepal, rescuers continue to find survivors. Chandika Shrestha, a 64-year-old woman, was discovered alive on the fourth floor of her partially buried house in the Nuwakot district by Nepal’s Armed Police Force on 5 September, according to […]

Long Island mother-of-two Linda Mancuso has been “praying on a daily basis” that her disabled son’s Haitian caregiver will be able to come back to work. It was “horrifying,” she says, when Jean, who had a temporary work permit, was laid off from work at the end of July from his position at a nonprofit […]

Public playing of songs by Russian citizens is already illegal across Ukraine, with exceptions for some artists who have publicly condemned the war, but Russian-language songs composed or performed by Ukrainians are still allowed. Under the proposals they would also be banned in public places. Anna Nerush said it would not affect someone celebrating their […]