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Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour on Monday said she was leaving her role at CNN after 43 years at the network. "After thinking carefully for several months and experiencing a few sleepless nights, as you can imagine, I've decided to separate from CNN," Amanpour, 68, said in a statement. "This daily show on CNN and PBS will come to an end at the end of this year. But CNN and I have worked out a smooth transition where we continue doing Amanpour once a week through to June," she said in a video message posted on social media. Amanpour, who became famous for her on-the-ground reporting from major war zones, did not give a reason for her departure. That said, her move to resign comes weeks after CNN's parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), was formally taken over by Paramoun...

Johann Wadephul (right) and Paulo Rangel also welcomed Lufthansa's planned investment in TAP PortugalImage: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa/picture allianceDuring their meeting in Berlin, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and his Portuguese counterpart, Paulo Rangel, reaffirmed their countries' steadfast support for Ukraine. They also stated that Russia had shown no willingness to negotiate by intensifying its attacks. "We ‌agree ​that accommodating the aggressor Putin in the current situation would be absolutely the ​wrong signal," Wadephul said. "In this difficult geopolitical ​situation, we share a common vision: ​the ‌defence of multilateralism, the promotion of peace and our unwavering solidarity ‌with Ukraine," Rangel said. Wadephul also said that recent comments by US President D...

The breakdown in the exploratory talks can be traced back to concerns about the often highly critical stance on Israel adopted by some members of the Left Party, coupled with criticism of the appearance of a figure linked to organized crime at an election night party.  The Left scored well with parts of Berlin's population, not least the young and communities with more people of migrant backgrounds, with an unusually stern line on Israeli wars in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East by the often muted standards of German politics.  But comments from its more outspoken members and controversies like an organized crime boss attending an election-night after-party led to questions — particularly in some newspapers and from the conservative Christian Democrats — about whether center-left pa...