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A man watches a televised statement purportedly by Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei on March 12, 2026. (AFP)
March 14, 2026, 12:38 pm
How Iranians are communicating with the world despite internet blackout
As regime-imposed data shutdown hits two weeks, Iranians risk punishment to connect via expensive Starlink satellite terminals, opposition radio broadcasts, landlines, and more
By Tom BARFIELD
French far-tight leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a campaign rally, on February 5, 2022 in Reims, eastern France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
March 31, 2022, 9:54 pm
France’s far-right Le Pen gaining on incumbent presidential frontrunner Macron
Her positions haven’t changed on immigration and national identity, expert says, but she’s using ‘a different vocabulary’ around cherished French values like secularism, feminism
By Tom BARFIELD
Thuringia's AfD faction leader Bjoern Hoecke attends a rally in Erfurt, Germany, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
February 5, 2020, 5:52 pm
Far-right backing for regional politician shocks Germany
Head of Central Council of Jews in Germans is ‘horrified’ after a candidate enters office with help from anti-Semitic AFD party
By Tom BARFIELD
Far-right extremists gather to commemorate the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, in Berlin's western district of Spandau, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. (Maurizio Gambarini/dpa via AP)
October 10, 2019, 12:59 am
Germany saw resurgence of far-right killings, violence before synagogue attack
White supremacists and neo-Nazis have been targeting immigrants and pro-immigration politicians, stockpiling weapons; officials say threat as great as Islamic extremism
By Tom BARFIELD
Ralph Dannheisser, born in 1938 and whose family fled the Nazi regime to the US in 1940, poses for a photo in Frankfurt am Main on May 8, 2018. (AFP/Yann Schreiber)
May 18, 2018, 2:25 pm
Germany loses Holocaust reminder as survivors dwindle
As far-right parties make gains, educators and historians say the country needs to urgently find new ways of remembering the past
By Tom BARFIELD
This file photo taken on June 30, 2017, shows two young women wrapped into a rainbow flag at a rally of gays and lesbians in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)
September 30, 2017, 11:10 pm
German gay couples tie knot after decades of struggle
Same-sex couples now allowed to marry following June vote, when parliament also cleared thousands convicted for such relationships under Nazis
By Tom BARFIELD
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a statement to journalists on May 3, 2017. (John MacDougall/AFP)
May 7, 2017, 9:22 am
Merkel challengers fight to hang on in north Germany
A February surge in polls for the center-left Social Democratic Party has since faded
By Tom BARFIELD
This file photo taken on June 06, 2016 shows an airplane of the German airline Lufthansa landing at Barcelona's airport in El Prat de Llobregat. (AFP PHOTO / JOSEP LAGO)
August 3, 2016, 1:15 am
Lufthansa warns ‘horrific’ terror is driving down ticket sales
German airline reports ‘advance bookings, especially on long-haul flights to Europe, have fallen significantly’
By Tom BARFIELD
Police officers walk along train tracks in Wuerzburg southern Germany on July 19, 2016, a day after a man attacked train passengers with an ax. (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL ROLAND)
July 20, 2016, 11:44 am
Doubt cast on nationality of teen migrant ax attacker
German authorities suspect radicalized 17-year-old Pakistani claimed to be Afghan refugee to increase his chances of getting asylum
By Tom BARFIELD and Deborah Cole
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