Heavy combat unit of 4,800 soldiers and 200 civilian staff inaugurated in Lithuania on Nato’s eastern flank The German chancellor has visited Lithuania to mark Berlin’s first permanent foreign troop deployment since the second world war, as he called on allies to dramatically expand their efforts to bolster European defences against a hostile Russia. As a crowd…
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were killed, Israeli officials said. A 31-year-old Illinois man has been charged with two counts of murder after opening fire 21 times on a young couple exiting an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., late Wednesday, according to a criminal complaint, shooting the victims in…
Over 150 people have been taken to safety and hundreds more are isolated. Hundreds of people have been rescued during one-in-500-year flooding after parts of Australia’s east copped four months of rain in two days. Flooded residents are warned to prepare for long periods of isolation while others are urged to evacuate. Almost 300 flood…
Anti-Hamas protests erupted in the Gaza Strip for a third straight day on Wednesday, after indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group in Qatar failed to yield any breakthroughs. Since Monday, hundreds of protesters in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis have taken to the streets to rally against Hamas, which has…
The US has selected a design for the futuristic “Golden Dome” missile defence system, says President Donald Trump, adding that it will be operational by the end of his time in office. Just days after returning to the White House in January, Trump unveiled his intentions for the system, aimed at countering “next-generation” aerial threats…
Iran’s parliament ratified a 20-year strategic partnership with Russia on Wednesday, formalizing a broad alliance that expands military and economic cooperation between the two heavily sanctioned nations, according to state media. The move comes as nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington are in doubt, raising fears of a renewed crisis in the Middle East with…
Trump has moved to strip Temporary Protected Status from thousands of Venezuelans living legally in the U.S., and they now could face imminent deportation. A two-paragraph Supreme Court order is upending the lives of some 350,000 Venezuelan migrants who have been allowed to live and work in the U.S. with special legal protection from deportation….
Israel must cease its military offensive on Gaza and lift restrictions on humanitarian aid or face “concrete actions,” the leaders of the U.K., France and Canada have said. The joint statement by Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney also demanded Hamas release hostages it took in the attack on October 7, 2023, in…
May 20 (UPI) — The World Health Organization announced Tuesday it has officially adopted the first-ever “Pandemic Agreement” to prevent future pandemics. The member states voted 124-0 in favor of the agreement, which it said “sets out principles, approaches and tools” to increase international coordination “in order to strengthen the global health architecture for pandemic…
From eGates and pet passports to the removal of red tape on food sales and the protection of British steel, a new deal has been agreed. The UK and the EU have agreed a new trade deal – five years after Brexit kicked in. Following six months of talks after Sir Keir Starmer promised a…