A Stuttgart court sentenced a Syrian man to life in prison on 2025-06-03 for war crimes and crimes against humanity tied to a Hezbollah-backed militia’s conduct in Syria’s civil war.
Police say a proposed LGBTQ+ march in Budapest could violate Hungary’s new restrictions on public Pride events, deepening a clash over the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ law.
Event date 2025-06-03: Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party was elected South Korea’s 14th president after a snap vote held in the aftermath of martial law turmoil.
A government commission says Sweden should stop international adoptions and apologize to adoptees after finding confirmed cases of trafficking across multiple decades.
Date: 2025-06-02. The Istanbul meeting produced another prisoner swap commitment and a Russian memorandum on ceasefire terms, but no breakthrough on Kyiv's demand for an unconditional halt to the fighting.
A Bangladesh court has moved former prime minister Sheikh Hasina toward trial on mass murder charges as the interim government seeks her return from India.
Police in Hamburg say three patients died and 34 others were injured after a fire broke out overnight at Marienkrankenhaus hospital, with one patient detained.
The conservative candidate secured 50.89% of the vote, setting up a difficult period of cohabitation with Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist government.
Authorities in France report multiple deaths and hundreds of detentions following violent unrest that broke out after Paris Saint-Germain secured its first Champions League title.
Josep-Lluís Serrano Pentinat officially took office on 2025-05-31 as Bishop of Urgell, automatically becoming Andorra’s new episcopal co-prince after the Vatican accepted Joan Enric Vives i Sicília’s resignation.
Greece is overhauling its migration enforcement, ending a legalization program and promising longer jail terms for people who stay after asylum rejection.
More than four decades after the abuse, Maya Achi women saw another conviction in a case that treated sexual violence during the civil war as a crime against humanity.
A jury in Ireland has found Richard Satchwell guilty of murdering his wife Tina in 2017 after a trial that uncovered years of deception and a hidden burial under the stairs.
The justices allowed the administration to keep moving against a humanitarian program covering more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, while litigation continues.
With Lee Jae-myung leading the polls, the first day of early voting drew record turnout as South Koreans moved to settle a race shaped by last year’s political crisis.
Slovakia's central bank governor Peter Kazimir was convicted of bribery and fined 200,000 euros in a case that reaches into the country's anti-corruption politics.
Portugal’s anti-immigration Chega party has moved into the role of parliamentary opposition, breaking a long pattern in which the center-right or center-left took that slot.