The European Union has so far failed to secure agreement on extending its sanctions against Russia, with a dispute over two Russian billionaires preventing the 27 member states from completing the required
France’s influence in Africa is facing one of its most serious challenges in decades, as a new generation of leaders openly rejects Paris’s post-colonial role and forges alternative alliances, according to claims
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Activist groups in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are crowdfunding Fiber Optic drones for Ukraine. The locally built drones, using 3D printing for the airframe, are reverse engineered copies of Russian Fiber
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by Eric Tobias Straumann’s Out of Hitler’s Shadow is a book that sets out, with cool archival confidence and quiet provocation, to dismantle one of the most comfortable moral myths of postwar
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An investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates quietly acquired nearly half of the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company last year, binding the business interests of President Donald Trump’s family to a
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by Durga Chris Moore’s The Power of Guilt opens with a confession so extreme that it dares the reader to refuse him moral authority. “We had hit a group of fellow students
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A close relative of Israel’s newly appointed spy chief has been charged with smuggling contraband into Gaza, exposing what authorities describe as a growing internal threat to Israel’s blockade of the territory.
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In the early 1980s, Moshe Alamaro was living in the United States without legal status, moving quietly through Boston on the margins of American life. Trained as an engineer and newly arrived
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Michael Jackson is impossible to escape. His music pulses through shopping centres, weddings, TikTok clips and jukebox musicals, while his image — white glove, tilted fedora, frozen moonwalk — remains one of
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When Stanislaw Sokolowski turned up at his modest home in Brentford, west London, on a cold January day in 2023, he expected nothing more than to collect post. Instead, he found six
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Over a matter of days, the United States has shifted an extraordinary concentration of military power to positions within striking distance of Iran. Advanced aircraft, including F-35 stealth fighters, heavy C-17 transport
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Newly released emails from the US Department of Justice have reignited scrutiny of past contacts between Elon Musk and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, revealing discussions about potential trips to Epstein’s private
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Melania Trump has come under renewed scrutiny after newly released Justice Department records revealed friendly email exchanges between the future first lady and Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of convicted sex offender
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Draft emails attributed to Jeffrey Epstein and released by the US Department of Justice allege that Bill Gates feared he had contracted a sexually transmitted disease and sought to quietly address the
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The European Union, long seen as a global advocate for human rights, is under scrutiny for failing to protect minority communities within its own borders, a United Nations expert warned today. Nicolas
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A sprawling black market for UK work visas is flourishing, with unregulated agents and licensed companies selling fraudulent “payroll-only” jobs that allow migrants to remain in Britain without doing any real work,
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