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Hard-hit by US aid funding cuts, the UN migration agency’s move to lay off thousands has sparked an internal “rebellion” by dozens of staff, who are demanding its donors take action, AFP has learned. Like many humanitarian agencies, the International Organization for Migration has been reeling since President Donald
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Russia pounded Ukraine’s Black Sea city of Odesa late on Thursday with one of its biggest drone attacks, injuring three teenagers and sparking fires as the Czech president visited, Ukrainian officials said. The attack comes as the United States is pushing for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia,
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Turkish authorities detained 37 people for sharing “provocative” content on social media, the interior minister said Thursday, pressing ahead with a crackdown on dissenting voices that escalated with the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, a potential challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested after a
Economy
Gold prices fell on Friday, but were poised for a third straight weekly gain, bolstered by safe-haven demand amidst geopolitical and economic uncertainties as well as anticipation of US Federal Reserve rate cut later this year. Spot gold was down 0.3 percent at $3,034.02 an ounce as
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European Union leaders are now in agreement that the EU must be fully capable of defending itself against a Russian attack by 2030, despite earlier resistance to the deadline from some countries, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday. Europe is dramatically stepping up spending on defense because
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Tunisia has said it is withdrawing from the human rights court of the African Union, as rights groups denounce another rollback on freedoms in the increasingly authoritarian North African nation. Tunisia announced in a declaration circulated by activists since Thursday “the withdrawal of its recognition of the competence of the
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The Sudanese army seized full control of the presidential palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday, it said in a statement, in what would be a major gain in a two-year-old conflict with a rival armed group that has threatened to partition the country. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said
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A French court trying two ex-bodyguards for former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen over a 1997 massacre postponed its verdict due Friday after prosecutors asked for time to investigate new evidence. The two main suspects, Hing Bun Heang, now 68, and Huy Piseth, 69, have been on trial in absentia,
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Thirteen people including a former government minister were remanded in custody for 30 days in North Macedonia on Friday over a nightclub blaze, believed to have been caused by pyrotechnics, that killed 59 people including six minors. The incident, in which another 197 people were injured, has shattered Kocani, a
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkiye would not be cowed by “street terror” after days of widespread protests over the detention of Istanbul’s powerful opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu. “Turkiye will not surrender to street terror,” Erdogan said, as the main opposition CHP called for nationwide protests later
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President Donald Trump suggested Friday that people who vandalize Tesla property – the car brand owned by his billionaire ally Elon Musk – could be deported to prisons in El Salvador. “I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon
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At least seven international flights from Indonesia’s resort island Bali have been canceled, an airport official said Friday, after a volcano in the archipelago nation’s east erupted, shooting dark ash eight kilometers into the sky and forcing thousands to evacuate. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,703-meter (5,587-foot)
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The once-pristine white oil tanks of Sudan’s largest refinery have been blackened by nearly two years of devastating war, leaving the country heavily dependent on fuel imports it can ill afford. The Chinese-built Al-Jaili refinery, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) north of Khartoum, was captured by the paramilitary Rapid
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday it was important Britain and its allies were able to react immediately should there be a peace deal struck between Russia and Ukraine. His comments, made during a visit to a nuclear submarine facility, come on the day military chiefs from dozens
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President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the US Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity before
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Israel’s military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early on Thursday as hostilities with the Houthis intensified, amid US President Donald Trump’s threats to punish Iran over its perceived support for the Yemeni militant group. Sirens sounded across several areas in Israel after the projectile was