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Trump envoys pitching ‘new ideas- to settle Ukraine conflict media

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to meet Kiev’s representatives on Friday and might travel to Moscow later this month US President Donald Trump’s top negotiators are preparing to pitch new ideas and proposals aimed at breaking the deadlock in the Ukraine conflict, with talks involving representatives of Kiev and its European backers scheduled to begin in Miami on Friday, according to Reuters and Axio...

Berlin counts billions spent at home as Ukraine aid study

Only €41.7 billion of the €100 billion reported by the German government actually went to Kiev, according to the Kiel Institute Germany has counted billions of euros spent at home as aid to Ukraine, overstating the amount that actually reached Kiev, published on Thursday by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Berlin has reported providing or earmarking €100 billion ($112 billion) in support since th...

UK arrests two men for breaking into US intelligence hub

The security breach comes days after seven suspects in a separate alleged “terror plot” against an American airbase were released on bail British counterterrorism police have arrested two Latvian nationals accused of breaking into a military installation housing major US and NATO intelligence operations, just days after British authorities alleged an Iranian-linked terror plot at another American airbase. The ...

Syria-s new rulers restrict women-s access to universities

New admission rules have sparked claims of gender discrimination by the country’s Islamist government Syria’s new Islamist government has barred women from enrolling in several university and technical programs, drawing public criticism. The rules for the 2026-2027 academic year affect several institutions, including two universities established in July under Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Al-Sharaa, a f...

ICE shooting triggers clashes in New York (VIDEOS)

Mayor Zohran Mamdani backed the protestors after federal migration agents wounded a Dominican man Anti-ICE demonstrators have clashed with police in New York City after federal agents shot and wounded a migrant from the Dominican Republic during his arrest. Scuffles erupted in the Bronx late on Thursday outside a hospital where a man had been taken earlier in the day after suffering a gunshot wound to the neck. Sev...

Musk names Indian billionaire responsible for Starlink troubles

The trillionaire called out Mukesh Ambani a day after blaming Indian “oligarchs” for stalling Starlink’s rollout in the country Elon Musk has escalated his criticism regarding Starlink’s delayed India launch by naming Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, hours after New Delhi rejected claims that its satellite approval process was discriminatory.Is Ambani the real boss of India? Musk asked on X on Thursday...

Russian military blogger detained in NATO country media

Montenegrin authorities reportedly suspect the Telegram channel Rybar of “hybrid activity” Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the Russian military Telegram channel Rybar, has been detained in Montenegro, local media reported on Friday. Police and the country’s National Security Agency reportedly carried out the operation in the coastal town of Risan that morning. Zvinchuk’s wife and three associates were ...

Ex-Zelensky aide bailed out by petty criminals and debtors media

Irina Mudraya was released after more than a dozen people with no apparent ties to her helped raise the required sum A former aide to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has been released on bail in a money laundering case after $450,000 was raised by an array of middlemen with no apparent ties to her, a media investigation has revealed. Irina Mudraya is accused of laundering money to secure the release of a former ...

US judge orders return of migrant deported to Africa

Ahmed Soliman has been held incommunicado in Equatorial Guinea since speaking out about detention conditions, his lawyer says A US federal judge has ordered the administration of President Donald Trump to facilitate the return of an Egyptian man deported to Equatorial Guinea, finding that the transfer violated his constitutional rights. Arizona District Judge John Hinderaker said in a ruling seen on Thursday that t...

Ukrainian strikes kill four civilians across Russia

Seventeen others, including a 10-year-old boy, were injured in attacks on Belgorod and Kaluga regions and near Moscow Four civilians have been killed and 17 injured, including a 10-year-old boy, in Ukrainian attacks on several Russian regions, according to local officials. The fatalities were reported in Belgorod Region and near Moscow, while nine people were wounded in a drone attack on Kaluga Region.The Belgorod...

WATCH French student protests descend into chaos

Officers deployed tear gas and batons against youth protesting education cuts and demanding better schools French riot police has deployed tear gas and water cannon, as well as charging with batons to disperse crowds of young protesters in central Paris. On Thursday, student demonstrations and labor union protests continued for a fifth week because of anger over underfunded schools, teacher shortages, and planned g...

Russia-s Rosatom announces date of Bangladesh nuclear plant start

The first block of the Rooppur NPP will be connected to the grid at the end of November, Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev said in Dhaka The first unit of Bangladesh’s first nuclear power plant will be connected to the power grid at the end of November, the CEO of Russia’s Rosatom, Aleksey Likhachev, said in Dhaka on Friday. Likhachev made the announcement at a meeting with Bangladeshi Minister of Science a...

African activists demand global tribunal over corporate abuses

Civil society groups are pushing for a binding UN treaty to hold multinational companies accountable for environmental and human rights violations African civil society organizations have called for an international tribunal to prosecute corporate human rights and environmental abuses, citing decades of oil pollution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta as a major example. The proposal was presented during an online Pan-...

Zelensky ‘doesn-t give a damn- about Ukrainians Russian envoy

Ukraine is facing energy and transport collapse, but its leader continues to siphon money into his corruption system, says Dmitry Polyansky, Moscow’s envoy to the OSCE Vladimir Zelensky’s continued attempts to target Moscow despite harsh retaliation against Ukraine’s military-related infrastructure prove that he doesn’t care about the well-being of his country’s people, Russia’s amba...

‘Deeply offensive-: India hits out at Vance comments

New Delhi rejected the US vice president’s description of foreign workers as “indentured servants” amid a wider green-card crackdown India has accused US Vice President J.D. Vance of making deeply offensive comments, after he described foreign workers as indentured servants while announcing Washington’s suspension of a key green-card sponsorship process for major technology companies, including several ...

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