Month: September 2024
Germany’s far-right AfD secures first state election win: exit polls
Germany’s far-right AfD Sunday achieved a historic win in the regional elections in Thuringia, according to exit polls, marking a significant setback for Chancellor Olaf Scholz ahead of the 2025 national elections. The AfD garnered between 30.5% and 33.5% of the vote in Thuringia, while the conservative CDU came in second with approximately 24.5%. In the neighboring state of Saxony, which also held regional elections on Sunday, the CDU led slightly, with the AfD trailing closely behind, as indicated by the polls. The AfD is unlikely to come to power…
FO terms Indian FM’s remarks on Kashmir ‘dangerously delusional
The Foreign Office (FO) on Sunday categorically rejected Indian Minister for External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s remarks on Jammu and Kashmir, terming them “misleading” and “dangerously delusional”. On Friday, Jaishankar said that the era of “uninterrupted dialogue” with Pakistan is over while saying that New Delhi will respond to developments “whether positive or negative”. “So far as Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, Article 370 is done. The issue [now] is what kind of relationship we can contemplate with Pakistan,” the Indian media quoted him as saying at a private event. In…