The attack took place two days before snap parliamentary elections in Germany in which migration has become a top issue, pushed to the forefront by five deadly attacks involving immigrants over the past nine months.The suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that seriously injured a Spanish tourist is a Syrian refugee who […]
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The German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, on Friday, said Europe needed to ramp up pressure on Washington to stand by Nato allies and not impose an unfair peace on Ukraine.Her comments came after US President Donald Trump spoke to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin last week to discuss ending the war and before Trump declared he […]
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The first round of negotiations in Riyadh on Tuesday prompted European allies to rally around Volodymyr Zelenskyy, nervous about Trump’s perceived pivot to Moscow and fears that talks would take place without Ukraine’s direct involvement and favour Russia.US President Donald Trump has announced a new phase of Ukraine war ceasefire negotiations between American and Russian […]
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The six included three Israeli men seized from the Nova music festival and another taken while visiting family in southern Israel when Hamas-led militants stormed across the border in the 7 October, 2023, attack that triggered Israel’s 16-month bombing campaign in Gaza.Hamas released six more hostages in exchange for 600 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday in […]
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Two police personnel and four militants were killed in an attack on a police check post in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday.The attack came two days after the separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed the killing of seven passengers, who hailed from Pakistan’s Punjab province, on a highway in the restive province.In the latest […]
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Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain seek to hash out plan to avoid Palestinian displacement.The leaders of seven Arab countries have held talks in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to hash out a plan for the future of Gaza.The gathering on Friday in Riyadh was meant to respond to a plan raised […]
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Islamabad — Afghanistan’s radical Taliban leaders on Thursday rejected the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their country, declaring as ‘unlawful’ the decision in 2003 by their predecessors to join the Hague-based court’s founding treaty.The decision follows the ICC chief prosecutor’s announcement last month, seeking arrest warrants for the reclusive Taliban supreme leader, […]
Continue ReadingThe Hamas militant group handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include a mother and her two young children taken during the October 7 terror attack.Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has invited the leaders of Gulf Arab countries, Egypt, and Jordan for a meeting in Riyadh on Friday, Saudi state […]
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Switzerland’s biggest political party claims that a recent referendum indicates voters don’t want radical climate targets.Just hours after he took office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.The process will take a year to complete but the decision to leave has emboldened other political leaders to put […]
Continue ReadingA group of nearly 100 migrants, including Pakistanis, deported from the US to Panama last week has been moved from a hotel in the capital to the Darien jungle region in the south of the country, Panama’s government said on Wednesday.In a statement, Panama’s security ministry said of the 299 migrants deported from the US […]
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