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Germany’s Merz inaugurates a historic new brigade in Lithuania and pushes for security spending
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared that “the security of our Baltic allies is also our security” as he traveled to NATO partner Lithuania Thursday to inaugurate a ...
Global leaders are condemning the fatal attack on 2 Israeli Embassy staffers. Here’s what they said
Global reactions poured in Thursday in the hours after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a ...
House passes Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ in marathon overnight session
House Republicans on Thursday morning passed a sweeping bill full of President Trump’s legislative priorities, kicking off ...
Fewer study and work visas lead to halving in net migration in the UK in 2024
Fewer work and study visas contributed to a near-halving in net migration into the U.K. — the number of people moving to the U.K. minus the number of those moving abroad — in 2024, ...
Southern Poverty Law Center to release its annual report on hate and extremism
The Southern Poverty Law Center is expected to release its annual report Thursday on white nationalist, neo-Nazi and anti-government extremist group activity in the United States. The Hate & ...
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Live updates: Aid groups collect some supplies that have entered Gaza
Aid groups have collected humanitarian aid carried by about 90 trucks, out of a total of nearly 200 that have entered Gaza since Israel began allowing limited goods in earlier this week, the ...
A political prisoner dies in Belarusian prison, human rights activists say
A Belarusian man has died in prison while serving a sentence for insulting the country’s authoritarian president, a human rights group said Thursday, adding to a ...
ICC prosecutor says Netanyahu arrest warrant should remain as Israel jurisdiction challenge is heard
International Criminal Court prosecutors have urged judges to reject a request by Israel to scrap arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former ...
Romanian court rejects defeated hard-right candidate’s challenge to election result
A top Romanian court on Thursday rejected as unfounded a request to annul the presidential election by the hard-right candidate who decisively lost the race to his ...
UK court puts last-minute block on a deal to hand Chagos islands to Mauritius
A British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, to Mauritius, hours before the agreement was due to be signed on Thursday. The U.K. has agreed ...
Here’s what we know about the DC shooting where 2 staff members of the Israeli embassy were killed
Two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington were fatally shot Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish ...
Naked man terrorizing Baldwin Park neighborhood
Residents are on edge after they say a naked man has been terrorizing a Baldwin Park neighborhood and aggressively chasing after women who live in the area. On April 27, the man was captured on ...