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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told EU leaders Thursday they had the “moral” and legal right to use frozen Russian assets to fund Kyiv — as pressure grew on key player Belgium to drop its opposition at a summit showdown. The 27-nation bloc is scrambling to bolster its ally Ukraine, as US
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The political parties holding a meeting in Paris on Thursday all agreed to have a conference in February aimed at supporting the Lebanese armed forces, said a French foreign ministry spokesperson. The spokesperson added that Thursday’s talks in Paris were focused on how to show progress regarding the disarming
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King Charles met “heroic ” British-Arab train guard Samir Zitouni at a reception at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. Zitouni was hailed a hero for protecting passengers during a knife attack on a train in England last month. The king was pictured shaking hands with Zitouni, who was seriously injured when he
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Cambodia said Thailand’s military on Thursday bombed the casino town of Poipet, a major crossing between the two nations, as foreign powers pressured them to halt reignited border clashes. Thai forces “dropped two bombs in the area of Poipet Municipality, Banteay Meanchey Province” at around 11:00 am (0400
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M23 police and plain-clothed intelligence agents were still deployed Thursday in Uvira, local and security sources said, after the armed group announced it had begun withdrawing from the eastern DR Congo city. After seizing the major cities of Goma and Bukavu early this year, fighters from the Rwanda-backed M23 group
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Sudan paramilitaries launched a large-scale drone attack in the east on Thursday, a military source told AFP, with strikes hitting a key power station, causing major outages and killing three. Since April 2023, Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a conflict that
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Syria’s President Ahmad Al-Sharaa has extended his deepest condolences to US President Donald Trump following the tragic loss of American soldiers killed in the countryside of Homs on Saturday. In a message addressed to Trump, Al-Sharaa said: “On behalf of the Syrian Arab Republic, I extend my sincere sympathy
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Sudan has once again topped a watchlist of global humanitarian crises released by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization, as warring sides press on with a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people. It is the third time in a row Sudan has headed the list, which
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European leaders including Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy meet in The Hague on Tuesday to launch an International Claims Commission to compensate Kyiv for hundreds of billions of dollars in damage from Russian attacks and alleged war crimes. The one-day conference, co-hosted by the Netherlands and the 46-nation Council of
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A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday. The suspects were a father and son, aged 50 and 24, authorities have said. The
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President Donald Trump sued the BBC on Monday for defamation over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the US Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media coverage he deems untrue or unfair. Trump accused Britain’s publicly owned broadcaster
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The Louvre closed its doors to thousands of disappointed visitors on Monday as staff launched a rolling strike to protest working conditions at the Paris landmark, two months after a shocking robbery. Staff assembled outside the museum’s world-famous glass pyramid, blocking the main entrance and holding signs, as security
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that talks in Berlin with US President Donald Trump’s envoys on ending the war with Russia were “not easy” but brought “real progress” on the question of security guarantees. Zelensky met for a second day with Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and
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More than a year after fleeing Syria, ousted former president Bashar Assad is living a secluded life of luxury in Moscow, with reports suggesting he has returned to studying ophthalmology while remaining cut off from political life. Assad, who trained in London as an eye doctor before assuming power in
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US President Donald Trump on Monday said the International Stabilization Force for Gaza is already running and that more countries would be added. “I think that, in a form, it’s already running,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “More and more countries are coming into it. They’re already
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Turkiye shot down an uncontrolled drone approaching its airspace over the Black Sea, the defense ministry said. The incident follows Turkiye’s warning last week of Black Sea escalation after Russian attacks on Ukrainian ports that damaged three Turkish-owned cargo vessels. In a statement, the ministry said Turkish and NATO