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A former senior British officer has told a public inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan appeared to commit war crimes by executing suspects and despite widespread knowledge in the chain of command nothing was done. Britain’s defense ministry (MoD) ordered the inquiry after a BBC TV documentary reported
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday, seeking to shore up European support as US President Donald Trump expressed optimism of a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. US and Ukrainian negotiators held hours of what both sides called “productive” talks in
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Ukraine with US envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon, the Kremlin said. The pair will meet after American and Ukrainian officials held negotiations on a US plan that Washington wants to be a basis to end fighting between Moscow and
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will skip next week’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers despite allies’ concerns about a US plan for Ukraine, sources familiar with the issue said. It is highly unusual for the top diplomat of the United States, the linchpin of the transatlantic alliance, to
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Iraq said on Thursday it would investigate an attack on a gas complex in the autonomous Kurdistan region, which disrupted gas supplies and caused power cuts. Sabah Al-Numan, the military spokesman for the Iraqi prime minister, said in a statement that the caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani had ordered
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US President Donald Trump said Thursday he planned to suspend migration from what he called “third world countries,” a day after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington. “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover,
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Taiwan has already held preliminary talks with the United States about what weapons it wants to buy as part of a $40 billion supplementary defense budget, Defense Minister Wellington Koo said on Thursday. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te announced the previous day the new spending plan, which runs from 2026-2033, to
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US President Donald Trump advised Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi not to provoke China over Taiwan’s sovereignty, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, after a diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Beijing. The row between Asia’s two biggest economies began after Takaichi said that Tokyo could intervene militarily in
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Israel handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Wednesday, a day after Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli hostage. This is the latest exchange as part of a US-brokered ceasefire reached last month, whose first phase is winding down even as violence continues in Palestinian territories. Hamas said
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Hours after police in Indian-controlled Kashmir released shopkeeper Bilal Ahmed Wani but kept his son in custody in this month’s deadly New Delhi blast investigation, Wani set himself on fire, members of his family said. The 55-year-old dry fruit seller was treated at three hospitals but died a day
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Taiwan will introduce a $40-billion supplementary defense budget to underscore its determination to defend itself in the face of a rising threat from China, President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday. China, which views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped up military and political pressure over the past five
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The Trump administration plans a review of all refugees admitted to the US during the Biden administration, according to a memo obtained Monday by The Associated Press, in the latest blow against a program that has for decades welcomed people fleeing war and persecution into the country. The review is
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The nation’s top military officer is visiting American troops Monday in Puerto Rico and on a Navy warship in the region, where the US has amassed an unusually large fleet of warships and has been attacking alleged drug-smuggling boats. Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
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The United States pressed Ukraine to accept its proposals to end the war with Russia during talks in Geneva on Sunday, a senior official told AFP, despite Kyiv protests that the plan conceded too much to Moscow. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington did not directly threaten
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The Israeli military on Sunday killed Hezbollah’s top military official, Haytham Ali Tabtabai, in a strike on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital that came despite a year-long ceasefire. His killing was announced by Israel’s military. Hezbollah has not commented on his fate, although Lebanese security sources confirmed
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Washington and Kyiv said Sunday that any eventual deal to halt the war with Russia must fully uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty, after “constructive” talks between US, Ukrainian and European officials in Geneva. After a day of meetings that kicked off based on a US proposal that was criticized as being