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Escalating Trump row looms over Zelensky's US visit ReutersPresident Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant alongside top Democrats on Friday The Speaker of the US House Mike Johnson has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington, as…
Iwao Hakamada is believed to be the world’s longest-serving inmate given a death sentence. An 88-year-old man believed to be the world’s longest-serving death row inmate was exonerated by a district court in Japan on Thursday, 44 years after he…
Israel said the goal of its strikes on Hezbollah was to allow residents of the north to go home. Some are hopeful that plan will work, but others worry that war may not bring safety. When Orly Gavishi-Sotto saw images…
The militant group is a dominant force in the country, and officials have struggled for decades to limit its power. Israel launched more than 1,000 airstrikes against Lebanon this week in an attempt to weaken Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that…
The deputy speaker of the ruling SNS party, Andrej Danko, expelled opposition MP Lucia Plaváková (PS/RE) from a parliamentary session for promoting the LGBTI issue, while another SNS MP, Rudolf Huliak, added to the outrage by verbally attacking her. During…
In a report released on Wednesday (25 September), the European Court of Auditors (ECA) revealed that the European Commission has failed to adequately address human rights risks associated with the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. The EU set up the…
The European Union’s decision to name a Hungarian as its health commissioner has raised eyebrows in his country, which itself has crumbling hospitals and no health minister. The nomination of Olivér Várhelyi, an ally of Hungary’s nationalist ruling party, to…
Adam Niedzielski, the health minister in the previous conservative PiS (ECR) government, has been charged with abuse of office for publishing a patient’s private medical information. Niedzielski was the health minister between 2020 and 2023, during which he led the…
Albania’s EU accession path will be decoupled from North Macedonia’s, with the first clusters of negotiation set to be formally opened on 15 October, according to a unanimous decision of Ambassadors of European Union member states on Wednesday (25 September),…