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What's behind Rishi Sunak's new election pitch?
Rishi Sunak has this morning given a speech aimed at framing the choice at the next election: security with the Tories or risk with Labour. Speaking at Policy Exchange, the Prime Minister gave a wide-ranging 30-minute address centred on the idea that ‘the next few years will be some of the most...
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German court finds AfD pursues goals ‘against democracy’
A German high court on Monday ruled that domestic security services could continue to treat the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a potentially extremist party, meaning they retain the right to keep it under surveillance. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV),...
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Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen expected to testify in hush-money trial
Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial enters its 16th day on Monday in New York with the potential for bombshell testimony as his former fixer turned prosecution witness, Michael Cohen, is expected to take the stand. Cohen is core to the case against Trump, as he is accused of shuttling $130,000...
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Can Pakistan’s Imran Khan and army patch up, a year after violent clashes?
Islamabad, PakistanPakistan Army chief General Asim Munir was blunt. Addressing army officials during his visit to Lahore Garrison on May 9, Munir said, “There can be no compromise or deal with the planners and architects of this dark chapter in our history.” Munir was referring to the events of...
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Germany limits cash benefit payments for asylum-seekers. Critics say it's designed to curb migration
EICHSFELD, Germany — When Erdina Laca goes grocery shopping in Eichsfeld these days, she pulls out a special payment card that’s for asylum-seekers only. She no longer pays in cash for her apples, eggs and fish — like most of the Germans standing in line with her at the register. Laca, 45, came from...
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Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's breaking a taboo on mental health services
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Students often throw up or wet themselves when gunfire erupts outside their school in northern Port-au-Prince. When they do, school director Roseline Ceragui Louis finds there's only one way to try to calm the children and keep them safe: getting them to lie on the...
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Catalan separatist parties lose majority in regional elections in Spain
Separatist parties in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region lost their majority in elections Sunday, with the Socialist Party winning the biggest vote. “This opens a new era for all Catalan residents — whatever they think, whatever language they speak and wherever they come...
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Israel presses on after UN vote calling for Palestinian membership
In an act seen by many as symbolizing Israel's continued disregard for United Nations resolutions and calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, Gilad Erdan, Israel's ambassador to the UN, shredded a small copy of the UN Charter on Friday during a live broadcast of a special session of the UN General Assembly....
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No more bear hugs: Biden gives up on Netanyahu embrace
Days after the October 7 attack, Joe Biden walked onto the tarmac in Tel Aviv and offered a warm bear hug to Benjamin Netanyahu, a sign both of solid support for Israel and the US president's long, if not uncomplicated, relationship with the prime minister. Seven months into the devastating...
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Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference
by Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When I registered to attend last month’s United Nations conference in Canada, organizers insisted it would be a “plastic free meeting.” I wouldn’t...
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