Julia Krajewski has defended her lead at the Eventing German Championships in Luhmühlen after the cross-country phase. According to NDR, the 2021 Olympic champion leads with 26.9 points.
Green Party co-leader Felix Banaszak has sharply attacked Friedrich Merz (CDU) at a state party conference in Troisdorf, accusing him of lying to the public.
A Russian drone attack on Oblast on Saturday afternoon left four people injured, according to the head of the Oblast Military Administration, Mykola Kalashnyk.
After a 7-1 opening win against Curacao, the German national team has excellent chances to reach the round of 32 at the 2026 World Cup before the final group match. A win against Ivory Coast would seal the deal.
Polish Karol Nawrocki has revoked the Order of the White Eagle awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, escalating a dispute over the naming of a Ukrainian military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
The Left party has a new co-chair: Luigi Pantisano succeeds Jan van Aken. The 46-year-old received only 53.3 percent of delegate votes, while co-chair Ines Schwerdtner was confirmed in office with 85.7 percent.
Iran's military has again declared the Strait of Hormuz closed, citing Israeli strikes in Lebanon and US policy as reasons.
Iran has again closed the Strait of Hormus to shipping. The military command cited Israeli attacks in Lebanon as the reason.
The small town in Brandenburg wants to add the suffix 'Brecht Town' to its name. The municipal council has approved the application, and the interior ministry is now reviewing it.
Environmental policy expert Töller, a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment, has called for environmental laws to be drafted more clearly and practically.
A three-year-old boy was pushed into a crocodile enclosure at a zoo near Huntingdon, England, and seriously injured by one of the animals. Police arrested a 30-year-old man.
Ukraine plans to scale up production and deployment of experimental technologies to counter Russian attack drones and FPV drones, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi announced, as reported by the Kyiv Post.
Ukrainian forces attacked gas infrastructure on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula overnight on June 20, 2026. The General Staff of Ukraine confirmed a hit on the road bridge over the Henichesk Strait.
The draft US-Iran ceasefire agreement represents a sweeping US capitulation, granting Iran enormous economic and political gains. According to a Kyiv Post opinion piece, the deal, set to be signed on June 19, holds lessons for Ukraine about whom it can rely on.
Labour peer Charlie Falconer has publicly denied Keir Starmer any authority, saying the prime minister has 'at most weeks to go' in office, the Guardian reports.
Amazon has stopped a film project about OpenAI Sam Altman that was to be directed by Luca Guadagnino. The reason is the company's business ties with OpenAI, as reported by Heise.
If body temperature rises above 40 degrees Celsius, it becomes life-threatening. According to ZDF, the body's cooling system then fails.
A train driver was killed and 89 people were injured when two passenger trains collided near Bedford, England, on Friday evening.
US Donald Trump has presented a new government jet at Joint Base Andrews. The aircraft is a Boeing 747 from Qatar, whose paint scheme replaces the familiar look of Air Force One.
The UK is developing low-cost long-range weapons for Ukraine, Bloomberg reports, citing the British Ministry of Defence. The new munitions are expected to be cheaper than existing systems.
The Störtebeker Festspiele on Rügen start their 32nd season today with a completely new play. According to NDR, 'Likedeeler' shows for the first time a deep rift between Störtebeker and Michels.
Brazilian forward Matheus Cunha celebrated his breakthrough in the national team with a brace in the 3-0 World Cup group stage win against Haiti.
Ukrainian defense forces attacked the road bridge across the Henichesk Strait near Henichesk in the occupied part of Kherson Oblast on the night of June 20, 2026, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
The US-Iran deal reveals a transactional approach that presents allies with a fait accompli. For Ukraine, whose negotiating position is far weaker than Israel's, this is a warning, the Kyiv Post analyzes.
The Green Party in Schleswig-Holstein has officially nominated Aminata Touré as its lead candidate for the 2027 state election. The social affairs minister received broad support at the party congress in Neumünster.
In Oblast, three civilian drone operators have independently destroyed a Russian Shahed combat drone using a Ukrainian experimental interceptor drone for the first time, the Izmail district administration reported.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, has issued new threats against Ukraine following recent attacks, declaring that 'there are no more rules' in dealing with Kyiv.
A toxic chemical leak at the Chempark Dormagen in North Rhine-Westphalia has left 25 employees injured. The cause of the incident remains unclear, according to the Chempark.
Two children aged two and four were killed and seven others injured in a head-on collision between an old Zhiguli and a bus in Brovary, east of Kyiv, on Friday evening.
Luigi Pantisano, the designated co-chair of the Left Party, has accused the CDU of pursuing fascist policies and sees no difference between the CDU and the AfD. Bild newspaper reports, citing an interview.
A lightning strike during a handball festival in Rastatt injured nine people, six of whom were taken to hospital, police confirmed.
Two freight trains collided while shunting in Munich early Saturday, causing two wagons to fall from a bridge. One person was killed, and recovery operations are ongoing.
A person died in a freight train accident in Munich on Friday night, police announced. Two wagons of a freight train fell about five meters from a railway bridge.
Two freight train cars fell from a bridge in Munich, killing one person. The accident occurred overnight in the Milbertshofen district, police said.
The Left party's plans to expropriate apartments and impose a rent cap in Berlin are not solutions to the pressing housing shortage.
At the federal party congress of the Left Party in Potsdam, a continuation of the controversies over Middle East policy and the board election is expected on the second day. According to Spiegel, the opening evening had already deeply divided the party.
Russian troops carried out 887 attacks on 47 settlements in Ukraine's Oblast in a single day, wounding 19 people, according to the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov.
Former Polish journalist Anna Magdalena Wielopolska calls on Poles and Ukrainians to reconcile. In an op-ed for the Kyiv Post, she advocates for an honest reckoning with their shared history and warns against letting Russia's war against Ukraine drive them apart.
Federal Construction Minister Verena Hubertz (SPD) announced that one-third of current housing benefit households would lose their eligibility, affecting those just above the income threshold.
Hesse's Minister Roman Poseck (CDU) is calling for a correction of the cannabis law. The black market continues to thrive, and the law has failed, reports the FAZ.