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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cast the U.S. announcement that the fragile ceasefire in Gaza would advance to its second phase as largely symbolic, raising questions about how its more ...
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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas held talks in Berlin with German defence minister Boris Pistorius as challenges to the future of European and global security continue to mount....
Trump remains open to military intervention if Tehran continues to exact lethal force on protesters in the ongoing nationwide demonstrations, US representatives told the UN Security Council on Thursda...
The US just lowered Taiwan's tariffs in exchange for a massive domestic chipmaking promise, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday . Under the deal, tariffs on goods from Taiwan will decrease f...
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to return to court on Tuesday to appeal a graft conviction, with her 2027 presidential ambitions hanging in the balance. Le Pen was banned from standing fo...
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s been told "on good authority" that plans for executions in Iran have stopped. Tehran, on its end, has signaled fast trials and executions ahead in it...
Mark Owen welcomes Aida Tavakoli, co-founder of We Are Iranian Students, who offers a window into the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Iran under a blanket of state-imposed darkness. Her voice, urgent...
Iran's communication blackout is "more serious" than ever before. Restrictions may last beyond the current protests, according to one expert....
Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of the presidential election, extending his rule beyond four decades. Meanwhile, the opposition candidate has reportedly gone into hiding....
The Trump administration announced last week that it wants Americans to consume more protein, churning out a colorful illustration of an inverted food pyramid that prominently features a big, red stea...
Sam Slater says he wants to raise his children in Massachusetts, despite paying the millionaire's tax. Sam Slater California's proposed wealth tax is sparking debate among billionaires across the stat...
Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland....
Bilt Rewards CEO Ankur Jain Taylor Hill/Getty Images Trump has called for a 10% cap on credit card interest rates. Bilt is rolling out a new suite of 3 credit cards offering 10% interest for the first...
French President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency defense council meeting at the Élysée Palace on Thursday to discuss Greenland and Iran - among other issues. He then visited a military base in the s...
French farmers steered some 350 tractors on January 11 toward French Parliament to protest low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America that they fear threatens their livelihoods. They say thei...
Trump issued a threat to Minnesota Democrats on Tuesday in a social media post where he claimed, without evidence, that they were causing unrest throughout the state....
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters rebuked the country’s new Reserve Bank governor, Anna Breman, for wading into US domestic politics after she signed a statement with other global ce...
The ministry estimates as many as 1.5 million Russians have taken part in the full-scale invasion, about half of them having served on the front line....