A far-right party has won a German state election outright for the first time. Alternative for Germany took 43.8 percent in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, September sixth — more than double the 21.5 percent it won there in 2021, and its best state result ever.

It holds 39 of 83 seats, three short of a majority, and every other German party refuses to govern with it. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats fell to 17.2 percent from 37.1 percent, losing a state they had run for 24 years. He called it their worst defeat in decades and said he will not resign.

Iran's security council chief, Mohsen Rezaei, said Monday, September seventh, that Tehran will declare a restricted exclusion zone near the Strait of Hormuz within days. State media, showing an upgraded ballistic missile with a range of 1,200 kilometres — 745 miles — said Iran will act against any threat, even before it is carried out.

The announcement came two days after U.S. forces disabled three Iranian oil tankers. The White House says the waterway is open, cleared of mines and under American control. Rezaei gave no date, no coordinates and no stated penalty. Tehran also doubled pump prices for its heaviest 15 percent of fuel buyers, to about seven cents a litre.

Canada's retaliatory tariffs took effect just after midnight Tuesday, September eighth: 15, 25 or 50 percent on roughly 20 billion dollars of American goods, each rate matched to what Washington charges on the same product. U.S. duties already cover 27.6 billion dollars of Canadian goods.

Hours earlier Trump posted that Bombardier must build in America or lose the U.S. market. The Quebec planemaker already runs a Wichita, Kansas plant employing 3,500 people, with a live Air Force contract; Senator Jerry Moran said he contacted the administration to protect those jobs. The White House has named no legal tool, and no talks are scheduled.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Vladimir Putin in Moscow on September fifth and Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv the next day. Witkoff reported substantive progress, including movement on scheduling further trilateral talks — but no date, venue or terms. Russia's public demand is unchanged: Ukraine drops its NATO bid and cedes four regions, including land its troops do not hold.

Zelensky told Axios he believes Putin needs Trump ahead of the November third midterms; Bloomberg reported the Kremlin intends to press on with the war. A French official says Putin may wait until after Russia's parliamentary elections on September eighteenth to twentieth. Strikes continued outside the two capitals, killing four in Kamianske.

In Nuuk on Monday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged 200 million euros — about 232 million dollars — to Greenland for 2026 and 2027, and said EU support should reach roughly 500 million euros from 2028. That larger figure is a seven-year envelope, against 225 million euros for 2021 to 2027.

She never named Trump, saying Greenland's future is for Greenlanders and Danes to decide. Eleven NATO countries, not including the United States, are running the Arctic Shield exercise on the island until September eighteenth. Nothing reported in the package blocks a future American minerals or basing deal.

Russia ordered Germany's consulate general in St Petersburg closed by September eighteenth and two Goethe-Institut cultural centres shut by September thirteenth, answering Berlin's closure of Russia's Bonn consulate and the Russia House centre on September second. Both moves trace to an explosive-laden drone that struck a parked cargo plane at Leipzig-Halle Airport on August fourth; Germany blames Russian state entities, Moscow denies any role. Each country will be left with an embassy and no consulates.

Two Israeli strikes on the south Lebanese village of Kfar Rumman on Monday killed twelve people, Lebanese authorities said, including two children, four women and a paramedic. Seven more died in southern Lebanon the day before. Israel says it was answering two Hezbollah drone attacks on its troops.

Britain will bar imports of goods and some services from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced it Tuesday, saying Britain would not accept the destruction of the two-state solution; Prime Minister Andy Burnham told Trump by phone the day before.

The national debt passed 40 trillion dollars, up from 37.6 trillion at the end of fiscal 2025 — about 110,069 dollars per person, and 122.4 percent of GDP.

The National Transportation Safety Board said the Amazon 767 that overran a Miami runway stopped 1,300 feet past the pavement, striking a van of cleaning workers and an SUV. Five people on the ground died and five were hurt; both pilots were cut out of the cockpit alive. Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said it is too early to draw conclusions.