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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that all trade talks with Canada were terminated following what he called a fraudulent advertisement in which former President Ronald Reagan spoke negatively about tariffs. “Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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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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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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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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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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Drones targeted the army-held Sudanese capital and its airport on Thursday, witnesses told AFP, marking the third consecutive day of such strikes. “At 4:00 am (0200 GMT) I heard the sound of two drones passing above us,” one witness said, adding that the drones were headed toward military facilities.
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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
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Algeria said Monday it was working to repatriate seven teenagers whose Mediterranean crossing to Spain went viral on TikTok and sparked controversy over irregular migration from the North African country. During an official visit to Algiers by Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, his Algerian counterpart Said Sayoud said “efforts are
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Forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government said on Tuesday they had repelled an attack by Al-Qaeda in the country’s south that left nine people dead on both sides. “Our forces managed to foil a large-scale terrorist attack launched this morning by members of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization
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Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday its forces had struck an important chemical plant in southern Russia’s Bryansk region. A statement by the General Staff said the plant was hit in a combined attack by missiles and air strikes, successfully penetrating Russian air defenses. It described the plant as
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Egypt’s intelligence head Hassan Rashad met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday for talks aimed at reinforcing a fragile US-backed ceasefire in Gaza. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his professional team met with the head of Egyptian intelligence at the Prime Minister’s Office in
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Rebuilding Syria after over a decade of civil war is expected to cost about $216 billion, the World Bank said in an assessment published Tuesday. The cost is almost ten times Syria’s 2024 gross domestic product. Syria’s civil war began in 2011 when mass protests against the government
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The Syrian interior ministry said Monday it seized about 12 million captagon stimulant pills in a raid on a drug smuggling network operating near Damascus. The seizure marks one of the largest drug busts since the transitional authority assumed power in late 2024. Following “precise monitoring and tracking of a
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Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday were preparing to reopen the runway where a cargo aircraft crashed a day ago, but said it would remain out of regular use until wreckage from the accident was fully cleared. The Boeing 747 flown by Turkiye-based ACT Airlines flight from Dubai skidded off to
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A drone attack struck the vicinity of Khartoum International Airport early Tuesday, one day before Sudanese authorities were due to reopen the facility for domestic flights for the first time in over two years. Eyewitnesses told AFP that they heard the sounds of drones over central and southern Khartoum and