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President Donald Trump signed a sweeping defense policy bill into law Thursday that signaled strong bipartisan support for Europe and defied the US leader’s increasingly hostile posture toward NATO and America’s closest allies. The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one the few remaining rituals of cross-party cooperation in Congress even as divisions sharpen elsewhere in Washington, sets out the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday said an EU plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s defense was essential to increase pressure on President Vladimir Putin, reports AFP. “It is about aid for Ukraine, but it is also about sending a clear signal to Russia that we will use the assets that are available here to help end ...

By Dr Abdul Hai and Fatama Rahman Ruma:   “Time has flown by in the blink of an eye — I can hardly believe it’s been 25 years in Germany. There was no other option but to learn the German language, no matter how challenging it was. It’s like learning a language you’ve never even heard before — It is ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that December 16 as India’s ‘Vijay Diwas’ (victory day), which sparked criticism, with observers and historians pointing out that the date marks Bangladesh’s Victory Day, commemorating the country’s independence in 1971. He claimed it through a Facebook post from his verified page on Tuesday. December 16 is observed in Bangladesh as the day Pakistani ...

Seventeen people were killed and 20 were injured after a bus carrying school children fell off a cliff in a rural area in northern Colombia, the local governor said on Sunday night. In a post on X earlier in the day, the governor of Antioquia, Andres Julian, said the bus was traveling from the Caribbean town of Tolu to Medellin ...

At least 10 people were dead after a shooting Sunday at Sydney’s Bondi beach, police told AFP, without saying if that toll includes a shooter. National broadcaster ABC reported that one of the shooters was among the dead and that 12 additional people were wounded. Police shot dead one attacker at the scene and arrested a second, who remains in ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned that the Black Sea should not turn into an “area of confrontation” between Russia and Ukraine, after several strikes in recent weeks, reports AFP. “The Black Sea should not be seen as an area of confrontation. This would not benefit Russia or Ukraine. Everyone needs safe navigation in the Black Sea,” he ...

Narges Mohammadi in her apartment in Tehran, Iran, on January 23.(Nooshin Jafari/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images) Iranian authorities arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi on Friday, according to a statement from her foundation citing information from her brother, reports CNN. The Paris-based foundation said Mohammadi was “violently detained” by security and police forces during a memorial ceremony for Khosrow Alikordi, ...

A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, an on-site aid worker said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections beginning this month. The junta has increased air strikes year-on-year since the start of Myanmar’s civil war, conflict monitors say, after snatching power in a 2021 putsch ending a decade-long democratic ...

Donald Trump has sought to reboot his ailing US presidency at a rally-style event with a blitz of false claims about the economy and xenophobic attacks on immigrants and “shithole countries”. In the wake of Republican election defeats and criticism that he is out of touch with America’s affordability crisis, Trump’s speech at the Mount Pocono casino in north-eastern Pennsylvania ...