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The man suspected of deliberately causing one of the deadliest fires in California history pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court on Thursday. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is charged with deliberately starting a blaze in the hills above the wealthy Los Angeles enclave of Pacific Pallisades early on New Year’
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Britain on Friday called for a raft of measures against Russia to strengthen Ukraine’s hand ahead of any future peace talks, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky heads to London for discussions with key allies. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said he would press a meeting of the
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French magistrates this summer issued a new arrest warrant against ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad over deadly chemical attacks in 2013, a judicial source said on Thursday. This means France has now put out three separate arrest warrants against the former dictator exiled in Russia, who ruled Syria from 2000
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The White House is looking for more donors to help fund President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom. The president’s team has released a list of companies and wealthy individuals who have pledged to contribute to the project’s cost, but it has not said how much each is
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday launched a plea in English as tensions mount between Washington and Caracas: “No crazy war, please!“ Maduro’s comment came after US President Donald Trump said he had authorized covert action against the South American nation, and amid an escalating US military campaign against
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Russian President Vladimir Putin remained defiant on Thursday after US President Donald Trump hit Russia’s two biggest oil companies with sanctions to pressure the Kremlin leader to end the war in Ukraine, a move that pushed global oil prices up 5 percent. The US sanctions prompted Chinese state oil
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EU leaders on Thursday tasked the European Commission to move ahead with options for funding Ukraine for two more years, leaving the door open for a mammoth loan using frozen Russian assets. In broadly-worded conclusions adopted after marathon talks in Brussels, EU leaders stopped short of greenlighting plans for the
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False claims that Japan’s new prime minister has created a ministry for “mass deportations” have been widely spread online, as immigration misinformation swirls after a “Japanese first” party did well in elections earlier this year. The misleading statements circulating on X and Facebook — largely in English — say Sanae Takaichi,
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Syrian authorities this week arrested a former military official accused of executing detainees at Saydnaya prison during the regime of Bashar Assad, the Sana news agency reported. Akram Selum Abdullah, who was a major general during the Assad era, was captured by personnel from the counterterrorism branch in the Damascus
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A Metropolitan Police officer at Charing Cross police station in London has been sacked for gross misconduct after being secretly recorded in a BBC Panorama undercover investigation making racist comments and endorsing inappropriate force. Philip Neilson was dismissed with immediate effect on Thursday after a Met hearing upheld three allegations
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Two Ukrainian journalists were killed by a Russian drone in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Thursday in an attack that was condemned by President Volodymyr Zelensky and described by Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman as a war crime. Donetsk region governor Vadym Filashkin identified the journalists as Olena Hubanova
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The sound of rain still triggers panic in Jose Manuel Gonzalez, a year after he spent six hours clinging to a traffic light as floods in the Valencia region of Spain swept away everything in their path, killing more than 220 people including his brother. Gonzalez, 58, said he often
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday hailed the “strong and much-needed” message sent by US sanctions on Russia’s energy sector, after President Donald Trump moved to ratchet up pressure on Moscow in step with the EU. “We waited for this. God bless it will work and this is very
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Forty migrants from Africa were found dead on Wednesday following a shipwreck off Tunisia while 30 were rescued, a judicial spokesman told AFP. “Initial investigations indicate that there were 70 people on board the vessel,” said Walid Chtabri, spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Mahdia. “Forty bodies, including
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Twelve international United Nations employees who had been held by Yemen’s Houthis inside their compound flew out of the rebel-held capital on Wednesday, the UN said. The Iran-backed Houthis raided the UN compound in the capital Sanaa last weekend, holding 20 staff, including 15 foreigners. Five Yemeni nationals were
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Russia on Thursday returned 1,000 bodies to Ukraine, which Moscow said were the remains of Kyiv’s soldiers killed in battle, a Ukrainian government agency said. The exchange of prisoners of war and killed soldiers is one of the few remaining areas of cooperation between Kyiv and Moscow, which