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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that “nothing is off the table” in terms of sending fighter jets to Ukraine after demands from both President Volodymyr Zelenksy and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday. Following a speech delivered in the historic Westminster Hall by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy in which he cheekily thanked the United…
The Pope will for the first time allow women to vote at an influential global meeting of bishops in October – a move that has been welcomed as a historic first. The new rules announced on Wednesday will give five religious sisters voting rights at the synod, which is a papal advisory body. In the…
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump signed legislation to end the longest government shutdown in US history, marking the official conclusion to a 43-day impasse that halted food aid to millions of households, canceled thousands of flights and forced federal workers to go unpaid for more than a month. Trump’s signature means the government can begin…
French President Emmanuel Macron and Moldovan leader Maia Sandu will sign a defence cooperation agreement in Paris on Thursday, his office said, as tensions mount between Chisinau and pro-Russian separatists. Their meeting in the French capital will take place after pro-Russian officials in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria last week appealed to Russia for “protection”….
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named former federal prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel for two ongoing criminal investigations by the Department of Justice of former President Donald Trump. Smith’s appointment came three days after Trump, a Republican, announced plans to run for president in 2024. Trump’s move directly led to Garland’s decison…
Austria’s parliament on Wednesday approved a request from the public prosecutor’s office to lift the immunity of Herbert Kickl, the leader of the far-right FPO party. Prosecutors want to question Kickl over alleged false testimony. The OeVP conservatives, SPOe social democrats, NEOS liberals and the Greens supported the move, the National Assembly said in a…