Demonstrators in Giessen block roads and force a two-hour delay as the AfD replaces its disbanded youth group with a new organisation. A major meeting to launch the new youth wing of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was delayed for more than two hours after thousands of protesters blocked access to the venue […]
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Iganga, Uganda: One person was shot dead and several others injured on Friday after clashes erupted between security forces and supporters of National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, who had concluded his rally at the Railway Grounds in Iganga Municipality. Police identified the deceased as Meshach Okello, a timber trader from Mutukula, Iganga Northern
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President Donald Trump on Friday said he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was extradited to the US and serving a drug trafficking sentence. The announcement came as Trump weighed into Honduran politics, with the US president threatening to cut aid to the Central American nation if his favoured candidate loses Sunday’s
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Seven of the 118 writers are members of the King’s Council, a prestigious title granted to senior lawyers appointed by the monarch, according to the JC. The signatories claim that Ansari’s defense of Hamas led his offices to be “inundated with threats of violence and death.” The letter also expressed concern after North Wales police “targeted, stopped, detained,
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President Volodymyr Zelensky’s powerful chief of staff, a close ally of the president who has headed Ukraine’s negotiation team at fraught US-backed peace talks, quit on Friday, hours after anti-corruption agents searched his home. Zelensky said Andriy Yermak had resigned and that he would consider his replacement on Saturday. Yermak’s departure comes as a major
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Hong Kong on Saturday mourned the 128 people known to have died in a massive fire at a high-rise apartment complex, a toll that is likely to rise with 200 others still unaccounted for days after the disaster. Authorities have arrested 11 people in connection with the city’s worst blaze in nearly 80 years as
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Iran added the floating base Kordestan and the destroyer Sahand to its navy on Saturday, the army said, in a move it described as a boost to its maritime power and technical self-reliance. Sahand, a Moudge-class frigate built in Iran, joined the navy in 2018 and is equipped with cruise missiles and stealth technology designed
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Some 44,000 people displaced by flooding across the country as relief operations intensify amid widespread destruction. Sri Lanka has made an appeal for international assistance as the death toll from heavy rains and floods triggered by Cyclone Ditwah rose to 123, with another 130 reported missing. The extreme weather system has destroyed nearly 15,000 homes across the
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ISTANBUL, Turkey — Pope Leo XIV encouraged Turkey’s tiny Catholic community to find strength in its small size as he embarked on the key day of his first trip that is meant to bolster Christians and pursue their centuries-old quest for unity. Shouts of “Papa Leo” and “Viva il Papa” (Long Live the pope) erupted
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Authorities also designate Anti-Corruption Foundation as ‘terrorist’ group and consider total ban on WhatsApp. Russian authorities have outlawed Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable organisation”, a label that, under a 2015 law, makes involvement with it a criminal offence. Friday’s designation means the international human rights group must stop all work in Russia, and opens
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