Thousands protested against Germany’s far-right AfD and blocked roads to its annual conference in the eastern city of Erfurt on ​Saturday, where the party re-elected the two leaders who have overseen its rise as a national force.

French President Emmanuel Macron ​will visit ‌Syria to discuss ways to ​strengthen bilateral ​relations and issues of ⁠mutual interest, ​Syria’s presidential ​media directorate said on Sunday.

The Chinese and Russian navies ‌will hold joint exercises in the waters and airspace off the Chinese city ​of Qingdao next week, ​China’s defence ministry and Russian state ⁠media said on Sunday.

Taiwan’s military has resumed “anti-communist” patriotic classes for its graduates after a quarter-century gap, the defence ministry said on Sunday, citing a rising threat from ​China as a senior official reported another rise in Chinese naval ‌activity.

Qatar said on Sunday that maritime ​activities would resume with immediate ‌effect, according to a Transport Ministry statement posted on X.

Hundreds of masked members of the white nationalist group Patriot ‌Front marched through parts of Washington, D.C., on Saturday ahead of Independence Day festivities planned for the evening that have been criticized as divisive.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Britain had been “failed by its leadership for a long time,” adding that he hoped the country’s next prime minister could deliver the structural ​change voters were seeking after years of political turmoil.

A vigilante posing as a child on social media allegedly caught a pediatrician, now charged with child sex offences, and reported him, a court has been told.

The number ​of confirmed ‌Ebola cases in ​the Democratic ​Republic of Congo ⁠has ​increased to ​1,502.

The ​death toll ‌in Venezuela’s ​twin ​earthquakes last week ⁠has ​risen to ​2,645.

A third teenager has been charged over the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy found outside a city hospital.

A Moscow car dealership is struggling ‌to keep up with demand for new electric vehicles from China as drivers look to sidestep a fuel crisis that has led to long queues and soaring prices across much of Russia.