Inhabitants of the Romanian city of Galati, near the border with Ukraine, expressed fear, bewilderment and anger on Friday after a drone crashed into a residential building, wounding two people during the night. The crash happened in the centre of the city of 200,000 people in eastern Romania, on a busy street with 10-storey buildings, […]
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Professional photo and video journalists working in Gaza are to receive an annual press freedom award on Monday for risking their lives to report on the war, an association of publishers has said. The 2026 Golden Pen of Freedom will be handed to representatives of global news agencies still operating in Gaza — Agence France-Presse, […]
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Latvia is to install a new government on Thursday, weeks after the previous coalition collapsed in a row over stray Ukrainian drones. Lawmakers are set to confirm centrist Andris Kulbergs as prime minister with the aim of leading the Baltic nation until parliamentary elections on October 3. Evika Silina resigned as prime minister on May […]
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The United States on Wednesday reimposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the Palestinian territories who has harshly criticized Israel, after an appeals court overruled an earlier order prohibiting the action. A notice on the Treasury Department’s website showed that it had reimposed a sanctions designation on Albanese that blacklists her globally, making […]
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Israel said on Wednesday it had killed the new head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, after killing his predecessor earlier this month despite an ongoing ceasefire. Since Hamas’s October 2023 attack, Israel has systematically targeted the group’s leaders, both in Gaza and across the region. Odeh is the fourth head of the […]
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“We’re all one crisis away from being a refugee.” — Hailey Sadler As a young congressional staffer, Hailey Sadler spent many hours focused on national security and defense issues. But it was the human impact of conflict that most passionately captured her attention. So after a few years, she turned to photography to explores how individuals
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The death toll from a Ukrainian strike on a college and its dormitory in a Russian-occupied town in eastern Ukraine has risen to 18, Russian officials said on Saturday. Launched overnight on Thursday to Friday, one of the deadliest Ukrainian drone barrages in months also wounded 42 in Starobilsk, the occupied Lugansk region, with some […]
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France announced on Saturday it has banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir from entry for mocking bound activists seized by Israeli soldiers on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. “From today, Itamar Ben Gvir is banned from entering French territory” after “his reprehensible actions towards French and European citizens” who were part of the humanitarian […]
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Ukrainian drones struck a college in the Russian-occupied region of Lugansk early Friday, killing four people and wounding dozens of others, Russian officials said. Lugansk is in east Ukraine, but is almost entirely occupied by Russia, which claims the region as its own. Images released by the region’s Russian-installed governor showed what appeared to be […]
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The virus takes its name from the Ebola River, near the site of one of the first recorded outbreaks in what is now the DRC, in 1976. Four of these six species are known to cause disease in humans and the major African outbreaks have been linked mainly to Zaire, Sudan and Bundibugyo ebolaviruses
Italy, Ireland and Spain have called on the EU to sanction Israel’s far-right national security minister, who posted a video showing detained activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla forced to their knees with hands bound. A global outcry erupted after Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir published a video Wednesday showing the heavy-handed treatment of foreign activists […]
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Hundreds of activists seized by Israel from a Gaza-bound flotilla were awaiting deportation on Thursday, as global outcry grows over their treatment in custody. More than 430 activists from countries around the world were in custody in Israel after they were detained at sea while making the latest in a string of attempts to break […]
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Israel’s far-right national security minister posted a video on Wednesday showing detained activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla kneeling with their hands tied and foreheads on the ground, sparking international condemnation. The video, shared on X by firebrand minister Itamar Ben Gvir, was published after Israeli forces intercepted the flotilla’s vessels at sea and began detaining […]
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I cannot tell you how exhausting it is to sit and write a screenplay to try to get it to sound both good and like real life. See, real life is boring most of the time. But movies have to be entertaining.
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Hamas is “the principal obstacle” to moving to the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire, the Board of Peace initiative created by US President Donald Trump said in its first report to the UN Security Council. In its findings, the group, established by Trump in January to oversee the end of fighting in Gaza and […]
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The Iran war has had a ripple effect on the global economy and international relations way beyond the Middle East. Kori Schake of the American Enterprise Institute joinsIan Bremmer to discuss how the conflict is redrawing power for the US, Russia, China, and America's allies.
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From his underground post, the commander of Ukraine’s unmanned forces, Robert Brovdi, known as “Madyar”, has been meticulously planning increasingly frequent strikes deep into Russian territory, which he sees as retribution for Russia’s invasion. He gave a recent exclusive interview to AFP, before the latest wave of attacks, in which Kyiv launched nearly 600 drones […]
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Ukraine’s capital Kyiv was in mourning on Friday after a Russian attack killed 24 people a day earlier, with President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing Moscow’s “brutal terror” and the two sides going ahead with an exchange of hundreds of captured soldiers. Retaliatory overnight strikes by Kyiv’s army, launched as bodies were still being pulled from the […]
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Germany’s energy-hungry industries have suffered sharp falls in output since the start of the Ukraine war, data showed Friday, with little hope of an imminent rebound. After Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moscow slashed gas supplies to Europe amid soaring tensions with the West, sending up power costs for German industry. Production […]
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Russia and Ukraine exchanged 205 prisoners of war each on Friday, Moscow and Kyiv said, a week after US President Donald Trump announced a large swap would take place between the warring sides. The Russian defence ministry said in a statement on social media that “205 Russian servicemen were returned from territory” controlled by Kyiv, […]
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Large-scale Russian strikes on Kyiv killed one person and wounded at least 31 others, city authorities said on Thursday, as Moscow ramped up attacks on Ukraine following a short-lived ceasefire. AFP journalists in the capital heard air raid sirens wailing before a series of loud explosions that lasted throughout the night, spurring residents of the […]
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A US judge on Wednesday imposed a temporary injunction on sanctions imposed last year by Washington on a United Nations expert on the occupied Palestinian territories. UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was sanctioned in July 2025 after she publicly criticized Washington’s policy on Gaza. In announcing the sanctions, US Secretary of State […]
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The baby bouncing on Nesma’s lap has his mother’s smile and her curious eyes, but nothing she says of the three paramilitary fighters who gang raped her two years ago in Sudan’s capital. “I saw their faces. I remember them,” the 26-year-old university graduate told AFP. Baby Yasser is one of thousands of children born […]
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Russia on Tuesday called for the immediate closure of the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia the day after German diplomat Christian Schmidt resigned from the post. Schmidt had held the powerful position, established by the Dayton Peace Accords, since 2021. “We demand that Western countries cease their intervention in the domestic affairs of […]
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The “resilient” NATO alliance can weather criticism from US President Donald Trump and remains crucial to underpinning Western security in the face of Russia, Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Monday. “NATO as a defensive alliance committed to collective security could never be more important than it is today,” Anand told AFP in an interview […]
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to uphold a three-day ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump while Russia holds its annual Victory Day parade on Saturday, though the event was set to be scaled back over security fears. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the memory of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany a central […]
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In an overcrowded camp in Sudan’s Blue Nile state, Awatif Awad has been fighting to keep her five children alive as the region becomes a new front line in the country’s three-year war. “We are only given one meal a day,” she told AFP by phone from the camp, home to thousands of people who […]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday warned allies of Russia against attending its May 9 WWII victory parade, as Moscow doubled down on its threat to strike Kyiv on the day. Moscow has unilaterally declared a ceasefire from May 8 to 10 in its war on Ukraine, but the Russian army has urged residents to […]
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No military hardware, internet shutdowns, Ukrainian drone threats and simmering discontent: President Vladimir Putin will host Moscow’s Victory Day parade Saturday amid signs some Russians are tiring of more than 50 months of war. The parade — marking the World War II defeat of the Nazis and held as Putin’s Ukraine offensive has dragged on […]
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Russia said Thursday that it was “incomprehensible” its ally Armenia hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a European summit earlier this week, and cautioned the country against deeper European integration. Ties between Armenia and its former imperial ruler Moscow have frayed in recent years. The former Soviet republic froze its membership in the Russian-led CSTO […]
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