Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking to rally European allies at a Brussels summit on Friday after saying Kyiv would no longer abide by US President Donald Trump’s demands not to strike Russian oil refineries. Relations between Kyiv and Washington have soured since last week, when Trump eased sanctions on Russia in exchange for Moscow releasing […]
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Le Pen looms large as Macron enters final months on EU stage
The spectre of far-right leader Marine Le Pen winning France’s presidency with a pledge to go head-to-head with the European Union is already giving Brussels the jitters — and looming large over Emmanuel Macron’s final months in power. France heads to the polls in April and May, after which Macron will exit as he can […]
Argentine demonstration over education cuts ends in clashes
Argentine demonstrators clashed with police on Thursday at a major protest in Buenos Aires over budget-slashing President Javier Milei’s higher education spending. The main demonstration outside parliament by thousands of university students and staff, trade unionists and opposition activists remained peaceful. But dozens of mostly hooded demonstrators who broke away from the crowd lobbed stones […]
Trump’s new press secretary defends ‘lawyer’ title
New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, under scrutiny over her legal credentials, seemed to acknowledge Thursday that she had failed the bar exam, but argued she was accurate in presenting herself as a lawyer. Appointed by US President Donald Trump, Zacharia has described herself as a lawyer during television appearances and on social media, […]
Argentine protesters, police clash at demo over university funding
Argentine demonstrators clashed with police on Thursday at a major protest in Buenos Aires over budget-slashing President Javier Milei’s education spending. The main demonstration by thousands of students, teachers, trade unionists and opposition activists remained peaceful. But dozens of mostly hooded demonstrators who broke away from the crowd lobbed stones and other projectiles at the […]
Houthis launch deadly attack on presidential palace in Yemen’s Aden
The Houthis launched a deadly missile attack Thursday on the presidential palace in the Yemeni government’s interim capital of Aden, as Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the recent dramatic escalation in the long-running war. The attack hit command centres located inside the Al-Maashiq presidential compound used by government forces and the Saudi-led military coalition that […]
School roof collapse kills 32 children, teacher in Pakistan
The roof of a school collapsed in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing 32 students mostly younger than 14, and a teacher, officials said, blaming the accident on dilapidated infrastructure. Twenty more students were taken to hospital as residents and rescuers scrambled to pull children from under the rubble. Others in the densely […]
Trump scraps plan to livestream execution after fierce backlash
US President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled plans to livestream the firing squad execution of a convicted military base mass shooter, reversing a widely condemned move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The plan to make Nidal Hasan’s execution public was opposed at home and abroad, with US Democratic and Republican politicians, the Catholic Church and […]
France, Germany reach deal on future of car industry
France and Germany have backed a further scaling down of EU emission rules for cars as part of a long-negotiated deal on the automotive industry struck Thursday, diplomatic sources confirmed to AFP. Europe’s two economic powerhouses also agreed to include Britain in the definition of what vehicles would count as “made in Europe” under EU […]