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World Two people have been arrested in relation to the arson attack on the Russian consulate in Marseille on Monday, said a prosecutor. The prosecutor’s department said they were key individualsThomson Reuters · Posted: Feb 25, 2025 5:36 AM EST | Last Updated: 6 hours ago French firefighters and rescue forces standContinue Reading

World A Texas pipeline company’s lawsuit accusing Greenpeace of defamation, disruptions and attacks during protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline goes to trial in North Dakota on Monday, in a case the environmental advocacy organization says threatens free speech rights and its very future. Energy Transfer is seeking damages ofContinue Reading

World Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, with combatants and civilians among the dead. European, U.S. officials consider sanctions on Rwanda,Continue Reading

World Three projectiles were thrown over the perimeter wall of Russia’s consulate in the southern French port city of Marseille on Monday, two of which exploded, police said. Incident took place on the 3rd anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine warThomson Reuters · Posted: Feb 24, 2025 5:30 AM EST | Last Updated: 5Continue Reading

World The Trump administration said Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave worldwide and eliminating at least 1,600 U.S.-based jobs. Move is the latest in U.S. president’s campaign to dramatically shrink governmentThe Associated Press · Posted: FebContinue Reading

World Friedrich Merz, who has no previous experience in office, is set to become Germany’s chancellor with Europe’s largest economy ailing, its society split over migration and its security caught between a confrontational U.S. and an assertive Russia and China. Ruling centre-left party tumbles to third in tally as far-rightContinue Reading

World Israeli tanks moved into the occupied West Bank for the first time since 2002 on Sunday, shortly after Israel’s defence minister said troops will remain ‘for the coming year’ in parts of the Palestinian territory. Palestinian Foreign Affairs Ministry calls the Israeli moves ‘a dangerous escalation’The Associated Press · Posted:Continue Reading

Hello, royal watchers. This is your regular dose of royal news and analysis. Reading this online? Sign up here to get this delivered to your inbox. On this side of the world’s longest undefended border, U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated comments about Canada becoming the 51st state have led to outright rejections ofContinue Reading

World The threat, issued in a post on the social media site X, was made just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump posted on his own social media network Truth Social that DOGE should get more aggressive in its attempts to downsize and reshape the federal workforce. Unclear what legalContinue Reading