Various senior Palestinian resistance officials have reportedly left Syria and their groups disarmed after mounting pressure from the new authorities in the Arab country, who have forged close ties with the US and are…
Category: 2. World
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King’s big moment in Canada after Trump row
Sean CoughlanRoyal correspondent
ReutersThe King is visiting Canada after President Trump said it should be part of the US “This is a big deal for the King to do this,” says Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian high commissioner to the UK, as King…
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Can Trump’s pricey ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system be done?
Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, White House
Getty ImagesTrump said the Golden Dome will be completed by the end of his term. Warheads raining down from beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Faster-than-sound cruise missiles striking US infrastructure….
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Rebuked by Donald Trump but praised in South Africa
Nick EricssonBBC World Service
ReutersPresident Trump doubled down on his unfounded claims of a white genocide in a remarkable meeting with President Ramaphosa South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation went to Washington this week…
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Hectic two weeks leaves Russia confident
Steve RosenbergRussia editor
PAVEL BEDNYAKOV/POOL/AFP via GettyIt’s 2:30am.
Inside the Kremlin walls I’m wandering alone through the vast grounds trying – and failing – to find my way out.
I spot a checkpoint, approach and show my passport.
“Nyet…
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Tensions rise as China, Russia, US and Europe scramble for Arctic
Katya AdlerEurope editor
Reporting fromNorthern Norway and Svalbard
BBCAs soon as Magnus Mæland became mayor of a small town on Norway’s northern tip in late 2023, three delegations from China came knocking on his door.
“It’s because they want to…
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South Korea’s history of overseas adoptions in the spotlight
Juna Moon and Tessa WongBBC News
Reporting fromSeoul and Singapore
BBC KoreanHan Tae-soon had spent decades looking for her daughter Kyung-ha The last memory Han Tae-soon has of her daughter as a child is in May 1975, at their home in Seoul.
“I was…
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Robbery gang guilty of Kim Kardashian heist in Paris
Eight people have been found guilty after US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint of millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery in Paris nearly a decade ago.
The four who took part in the heist were given prison sentences of up to…
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Several injured in knife attack at railway station
Several people have suffered life-threatening injuries in a knife attack at the main railway station in the German city of Hamburg, police have said.
The city’s fire department said 12 people were injured in the attack, but police later said there…
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Twelve injured in knife attack in Germany’s Hamburg
A suspect in the attack was arrested, police said in a post on the social network X on Friday evening, PBS News reported.
Hamburg’s fire service said that six people sustained life-threatening injuries, while another three were seriously…
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