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The government of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Sunday unveiled plans to fight organized crime and improve security in the violence-ridden state of Michoacan after the brazen public assassination of a local mayor sent shockwaves through the country. More than 10,500 members of Mexico’s army, air force and
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Standing in the center of rainy Kaliningrad, the isolated Russian exclave surrounded by NATO countries, Russian factory worker Alexander felt confident. Economically hit by being cut-off from its EU neighbors and physically isolated from the rest of Russia, officials and locals are putting on a brave face amid claims they
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President Donald Trump said on Friday that no US government official would attend the Group of 20 summit in South Africa later this month, because of what he said were “human rights abuses” taking place in the country. South Africa’s foreign ministry described the decision as “regrettable” and repeated
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Iraqis are preparing to vote in a parliamentary election that comes at a crucial moment in the country and the region. The vote will begin Sunday with polling for members of the security forces and displaced people living in camps, and the general election is set for Tuesday. The outcome
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The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to lift sanctions on Ahmad Al-Sharaa, effectively removing the Syrian president from the Daesh and Al-Qaeda Sanctions List in a move widely seen as signaling international recognition of the post-Assad political order in Syria. Resolution 2729 was tabled by the US and adopted
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Peru’s Congress voted to declare Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum persona non grata on Thursday, after her country granted asylum to a former Peruvian prime minister on trial for allegedly aiding a 2022 coup attempt. The two Latin American countries have had strained diplomatic relations for years, but tensions rose
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Kazakhstan said Thursday it expects to join the Abraham Accords between Israel and mainly Muslim nations, in a largely symbolic move aimed at boosting US President Donald Trump’s push for Middle East peace. The central Asian republic has had diplomatic ties with Israel for decades, unlike the four Arab
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North Korea condemned on Thursday the latest US sanctions imposed on people and organizations accused of cybercrimes, saying they showed Washington’s “wicked nature to be hostile” against the regime. The criticism came after the US Treasury announced this week sanctions on eight individuals and two entities “for their role
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US President Donald Trump will host all five Central Asian leaders in Washington on Thursday for the first time, a few months after they held separate summits with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. The West has upped its interest with the resource-rich region, where Moscow’s
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Argentine ex-president Cristina Kirchner, who is serving a six-year fraud sentence under house arrest, goes on trial Thursday in a separate case for allegedly taking millions of dollars in bribes. The center-left Kirchner, a dominant and polarizing figure in Argentine politics for over two decades, served two terms from 2007-2015.
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US President Donald Trump plans to meet with Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday at a press briefing. Since seizing power from Bashar Assad last December, Al-Sharaa has made a series of foreign trips as his transitional government seeks
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The US government shutdown became the longest ever Wednesday, topping the 35-day record set during Donald Trump’s first term, as his administration warned of holiday air travel chaos and threatened Americans’ benefits in a bid to force a resolution. Federal agencies have been grinding to a halt since Congress
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Sudan’s defense minister said on Tuesday that the army would press on with fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after the country’s security and defense council met to discuss a US proposal for a ceasefire. “We thank the Trump administration for its efforts and proposals to achieve peace,
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Californians go to the polls Tuesday in a ballot likely to further tilt the liberal state toward the Democrats, as the party seeks to neutralize gerrymandering ordered by President Donald Trump. Governor Gavin Newsom and his allies want voters to approve a temporary re-drawing of electoral districts that would give
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Iraq has pledged to bring all weapons under the control of the state, but that will not work so long as there is a US-led coalition in the country that some Iraqi factions view as an occupying force, the prime minister said on Monday. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said
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New Yorkers will pick a new mayor on Tuesday after an unpredictable race that has drawn attention from far beyond the largest city in the United States, with President Donald Trump branding frontrunner Zohran Mamdani “a communist.” Breakout Democratic Party candidate Mamdani, a naturalized Muslim American who represents Queens in