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The EU and Britain look set to seal a defense pact at a landmark summit this month as worries about US President Donald Trump and the war in Ukraine spur them beyond the wrangles of Brexit. Multiple EU diplomats and officials told AFP the signs are positive that a security
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India attacked Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday and Pakistan said it had shot down five Indian fighter jets in the worst fighting in more than two decades between the nuclear-armed enemies. India said it struck nine Pakistani “terrorist infrastructure” sites, some of them linked to an attack by Islamist
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A senior Hamas official said Tuesday the group was no longer interested in truce talks with Israel and urged the international community to halt Israel's "hunger war" against Gaza. "There is no sense in engaging in talks or considering new ceasefire proposals as long as
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Sudan’s paramilitary unleashed drones on the Red Sea city of Port Sudan early Tuesday, hitting key targets there, including the airport, the port and a hotel, military officials said. The barrage was the second such attack this week on a city that had been a hub for people fleeing
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke to his Pakistani counterpart on Sunday and offered Russia’s help in resolving tensions between Pakistan and India over Kashmir, the Foreign Ministry said. “Particular attention was paid to the significant rise in tension between New Delhi and Islamabad,” the ministry said in a
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Israeli ministers on Monday agreed to ramp up the war against Hamas in Gaza, an official said, with plans to capture more territory in the beleaguered Palestinian enclave and call up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers. The plan, which the official said would be gradual, could mark a significant
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed a three-day truce ordered by Russian leader Vladimir Putin as theatrics, but said Kyiv was ready for a full ceasefire. Moscow said the truce, set to coincide with its World War II commemorations on May 9, was aimed at testing Kyiv’s “readiness” for
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Australia’s Labor government will prioritize dealing with the “dark shadow” of the US-China trade war following its resounding re-election victory, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Sunday, after a campaign that highlighted concerns over US trade policy and the global economy. Labour Party leader Anthony Albanese, Australia’s first prime
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments broadcast on Sunday said that the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine had not arisen, and that he hoped it would not arise. In a fragment of an upcoming interview with Russian state television published on Telegram, Putin said that Russia has
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When the US and Iran met for nuclear talks a decade ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed against an emerging deal from the world’s most public stages, including in a fiery speech to Congress seen as a direct challenge to the Obama administration as it was wrapping up
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Bandar Abbas, a bustling port city on Iran’s southern coast, is now a city of ashes, mourning, and unanswered questions. Days after a catastrophic explosion tore through the Shahid Rajaee port, the fires still burn, the air remains choked with black smoke, and families search desperately for loved ones
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A new report by the Henry Jackson Society warns that the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) poses a growing threat to UK national security and calls for the British government to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organisation formally. The report, The Long Arm of Tehran: Why
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Top diplomat, foreign aid chief, national archivist and now national security adviser. Marco Rubio’s expanding resume underscores President Donald Trump’s increasing trust in the former Florida senator, officials said. Trump said on Thursday that his national security adviser Mike Waltz would move on to become UN ambassador, weeks
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China said Friday it is evaluating a US offer for negotiations on tariffs but wanted Washington to show “sincerity” and be ready to scrap levies that have roiled global markets and supply chains. Punishing US tariffs that have reached 145 percent on many Chinese products came into force in April
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Hard-right upstarts Reform UK snatched a parliamentary seat from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour party on Friday in local elections that dealt a blow to Britain’s two establishment parties. Reform, led by anti-immigrant firebrand Nigel Farage, won the by-election in Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England by just
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he has a “mountain to climb” in elections Saturday, despite leading the opinion polls, in a contest swayed by living costs and Trump tariffs. Surveys give Albanese’s left-leaning Labour Party a narrow lead over the conservative opposition on a two-party preferred basis. If