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Brandenburg's State Premier and SPD top candidate in the regional elections in Brandenburg, Dietmar Woidke (C) looks on next to AfD top candidate Hans-Christoph Berndt (R) and CDU top candidate Jan Redmann (L) during an interview at the studio of German public broadcaster ARD during the electoral evening at the State Parliament (Landtag) in Potsdam, in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, o

Today’s election in Brandenburg, with the Social Democrats and the far-right “Alternative for Germany” vying to see who will prevail, is considered particularly crucial.

The recent success of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in regional elections in Thuringia and their significant gain of over 30% in Saxony is causing considerable concern and backlash at the national level. Meanwhile, the governing coalition parties (SPD, Greens, and FDP) appear to have suffered significant losses.

Former SYRIZA spokesperson Popi Tsapanidou was sworn in as state deputy of the main opposition party at the beginning of Friday's session of the Plenary of the Parliament.

On the request of the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, the National Assembly of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity on Tuesday passed a law declaring rulings of Bosnia's Constitutional Court non-applicable in the entity.

Bosnia and Herzegovina completed the formation of a state-level government on Wednesday, several months after the October 2022 general elections, with the approval of the new Council of Ministers led by Borjana Kristo, vice-president of the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, the main Bosnian Croat party. 

The European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the OSCE Mission and the United Nations have told the state authorities that they must make the process more transparent, while domestic organisations have warned of possible politicisation of the process.

Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters gathered in Australia's two largest cities on July 24, with several arrested in Sydney after violent clashes with police.

A group charged mounted officers while throwing pot plants and bottles, as opponents of Sydney's month-long stay-at-home orders took to the streets.

Zoran Tegeltija, the recently appointed chairman of the Council of Ministers - Bosnia's state-level government - on Tuesday finally completed the composition of his cabinet, 14 months after the last legislative elections in the country.

The first-ever Pride March passed off peacefully in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after starting Sunday at noon. After the participants gathered in front of the Eternal Flame, a well-known memorial dedicated to victims of World War II, a few hundred people marched through Tito Street, Sarajevo's main street, and ended in front of the state-level parliament.