If they are not designated as a coalition, then they are not one; SPD’s registration as a single party therefore stands, the court ruled. A decision on the Pirates and Stačilo! is still pending. Tomio Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement can run as a single party, even though…

US president has argued New Delhi is indirectly helping fund the Ukraine war, as experts say the move is an “own goal” against an ally. Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on most US imports from India, making good on a threat to punish one of the world’s largest economies over…

The late Dutch author and Holocaust survivor Marga Minco once wrote about an empty house in Amsterdam where she and other artists hid at the end of the second world war. Last month, that same house was occupied by a new generation of squatters. In Amsterdam’s overcrowded and overpriced housing…

Moscow willing to support six-month extension of deadline before punishments are reimposed. Russia could back an extended six-month deadline for its ally Iran before European powers reimpose sweeping United Nations sanctions over Tehran’s refusal to allow UN inspectors back into nuclear sites after the Israeli-US assault in June. France, Britain…

Controversy over housing allowance, which is almost 10 times minimum wage, comes amid President Prabowo Subianto’s austerity drive. Riot police have fired water cannon and rounds of teargas at thousands of stone-throwing protesters in capital as anger over the lavish allowances of parliament members has fuelled public anger. Thousands of…