Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, the group said on Tuesday (6 August).

A jailed Kurdish leader and a Turkish writer on the other side of the bars have used their penpal exchanges to write one of Turkey's highest-selling books.

Bangladesh's Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus has been tapped to lead an interim government after mass protests forced longtime prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee, the presidency announced early Wednesday (7 August).

A Chinese academic was convicted on Tuesday (7 August) of illegally acting as a foreign agent in the United States by collecting information about New York-based activists supporting democracy in China and sharing his findings with Beijing.

Despite being on holiday, German chancellor Olaf Scholz weighted in on a looming new crisis over the government’s budget, arguing that a legal assessment shows that additional loans can be used for infrastructure investment while circumventing the country’s strict ‘debt brake’.

The parliament of Spain's Catalonia region is set to elect a new leader this week, although the event may be upstaged by the return of its former leader from self-imposed exile, despite a pending warrant for his arrest.

With Giorgia Meloni, Italy has probably the most openly anti-abortion prime minister in western Europe, but terminating pregnancies in the majority-Catholic country that hosts the Vatican has never been easy.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her newly selected vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, campaigned for the first time together on Tuesday (6 June) in Philadelphia.

According to Swedish specialists, prioritising care for osteoporosis patients reduces fractures and saves lives and money. More investment is needed to deal with under-diagnosis and under-treatment in Sweden, they say. 

European Union governments approved on Tuesday (6 August) the first regular payment to Ukraine of €4.2 billion ($4.58 billion) of the €50 billion the EU has set aside as financial support for Kyiv.

A deadly virus affecting sheep and goat continues to ravage Greek and Romanian farms, prompting both governments to impose restrictions on animal transport to curb the disease’s spread.

The European Medicines Agency's human medicines committee has triggered outrage among patients by recommending the revocation of a market authorisation for a medicine used in the treatment of a rare liver disease.