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Any Israeli attempt to annex land in Gaza would be “unacceptable,” the UK’s Middle East minister said Tuesday as Israel’s army prepared to broaden its assault in the Palestinian territory. “We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s operations. Any attempt to annex land in Gaza would be unacceptable,” minister Hamish Falconer said.
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Wednesday meets France’s Emmanuel Macron in Paris on his first visit to Europe since taking power after the fall of longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. The visit comes with Syria’s new authorities, who have roots in the Al-Qaeda jihadist network, under increasing pressure from Europe to show their seriousness on […]
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France and the United Kingdom have both announced new measures to tighten immigration and citizenship policies, signaling a firmer stance on migration management in Europe.  In France, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau unveiled stricter criteria for granting citizenship, focusing on legal compliance, language proficiency, and economic independence.  Retailleau stressed that French citizenship is rooted in lineage […]
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French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Monday unveiled a new directive aimed at tightening the criteria for obtaining French citizenship, marking what he described as a “breakthrough” in immigration policy, though one that remains within the bounds of French law. Speaking from Créteil, a suburb south of Paris, Retailleau stressed that French nationality should be […]
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Jury selection was underway Monday in New York in the blockbuster federal sex trafficking trial of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who stands accused of years of harrowing abuse. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty on all counts, insisting that any sex acts were consensual, but prosecutors say for years he coerced victims into drug-fueled […]
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Brazilian police said Sunday they arrested two people in connection with a foiled plot to bomb Lady Gaga’s packed mega-concert in Rio de Janeiro. Rio’s civil police force said that together with the ministry of justice it “prevented a bomb attack that would have occurred at Lady Gaga’s concert in Copacabana” on Saturday night. Officials […]
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The European Union will launch a new incentives package worth 500 million euros to make the bloc “a magnet for researchers” from elsewhere, Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Monday. Speaking at a Paris conference on ways to lure foreign researchers, especially from the United States under Donald Trump, she said of the $567-million […]
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US President Donald Trump said Sunday he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six decades ago. “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” the Republican wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the […]
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One of late Pope Francis’s iconic popemobiles is being repurposed into a mobile clinic for children in Gaza, Vatican News reported Sunday. The vehicle, used during his 2014 pilgrimage to the Holy Land, was donated to aid group Caritas Jerusalem as part of the pope’s final humanitarian wishes. The transformed popemobile will function as a […]
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French authorities are investigating whether a notorious Marseille-based drug trafficking network, known as “DZ Mafia,” is behind a recent wave of violent attacks targeting prisons and correctional staff, the Paris public prosecutor said Saturday. At a press conference, Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said that investigators from the organized crime unit suspect a connection between the […]
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