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In a warning to Russia, President Donald Trump said Friday he’s ordering the repositioning of two US nuclear submarines “based on the highly provocative statements” of the country’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev, who has raised the prospect of war online. Trump posted on his social media site that,
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US President Donald Trump said on Friday he had heard that India would no longer be buying oil from Russia.
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A shooting at a Montana bar Friday left four people dead, and law enforcement officers were searching for a suspect described by his niece as a former US soldier who struggled to get help for mental health problems. Officers searched a mountainous area west of the small town of Anaconda
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Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday agreed on an outline for the regional economic integration framework, according to the US State Department, as the two countries take steps toward delivering on a peace deal signed in Washington last month. The tenets agreed on Friday summarize the framework,
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Two militant attacks in northeastern Burkina Faso early this week killed “several dozens” of soldiers and civilians, two security sources and a local source told AFP on Friday. In a “major” attack carried out on Monday, a military unit in the village of Dargo was targeted by “armed terrorist groups,
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Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said Saturday. Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting
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Angolan President Joao Lourenco praised security forces Friday for quelling unrest that claimed 30 lives over two days but rights groups accused them of killing “defenseless people.” Dozens of shops and warehouses in Luanda were looted and vehicles attacked on Monday and Tuesday when a strike against a fuel price
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At least two vessels loaded with Russian oil bound for refiners in India have diverted to other destinations following new US sanctions, trade sources said, and LSEG trade flows showed. The US Treasury Department this week imposed sanctions on more than 115 Iran-linked individuals, entities, and ships, some of which
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Russia’s top diplomat on Thursday met with his Syrian counterpart during the first formal to Moscow by an official of the new government in Damascus since former Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted in a rebel offensive last year despite years of Russian support. Opening the talks, Foreign Minister
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Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto pardoned two political rivals, a former trade minister and a senior politician from an opposition party a few weeks after both were sentenced to jail, officials said. Prabowo granted amnesty to Hasto Kristiyanto, the secretary general of parliament’s largest party, the Indonesian Democratic Party
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Hard-right commentators, politicians and activists in Europe have uncovered a secret to expanding their influence: engaging with Elon Musk. Take the German politician from a party whose own domestic intelligence agency has designated as extremist. Her daily audience on X surged from 230,000 to 2.2 million on days
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US President Donald Trump has made clear that he wants a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine by August 8, the United States told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. “Both Russia and Ukraine must negotiate a ceasefire and durable peace. It is time to make a
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Australia’s spy chief has singled out Russia as an “aggressive espionage threat,” saying several Moscow-linked intelligence officers have been caught and expelled in recent years. Intelligence boss Mike Burgess used a speech on Thursday night to warn of the mounting threat posed by foreign actors such as Russia and
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Some nations reacted with relief Friday after US President Donald Trump announced tariffs that in some cases were lower than threatened, and delayed by a week to August 7. But others — including Switzerland and chip powerhouse Taiwan — still hope to negotiate lower rates, and uncertainty remains over transshipments and levies
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The joint US and Australian military exercise Talisman Sabre extended across 500 kilometers of remote northern coast in Papua New Guinea this week, Australian officials said, the first time the war games have been taken to another country. Talisman Sabre exercises in Australia last month involved 40,000 troops from
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Khader Qassis traveled 32 hours from the West Bank, passing military checkpoints across three countries, to join hundreds of thousands of other young Catholics in Rome for a week-long pilgrimage. While Rome thronged with singing pilgrims, the 20-year-old from Bethlehem said he felt some guilt that he was in the