France’s Macron pushes for ‘true European army’
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NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court upheld on Monday a 2019 decision by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke special status for the state of Jammu and Kashmir and set a deadline of Sept. 30 next year for local polls to be held. India’s only Muslim-majority region, Jammu and…
Latest Developments The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its child fatality figure from the Gaza war sharply downward, reporting more than 14,500 deaths on May 6 but then 7,797 on May 8. OCHA also revised downward its figure for women fatalities from more than 9,500 deaths to 4,959 deaths. The…
Under the proposed agreement, imports from South Korea would be subject to a 15% tariff while U.S.-originating goods would be exempt from duties. The U.S. has struck a “Full and Complete Trade Deal” with South Korea, President Donald Trump said in a Wednesday Truth Social post. If finalized, the U.S. would charge a 15% tariff…
Starting a family in Italy is becoming a “titanic effort” that only the rich can afford, Pope Francis has warned. Addressing a conference on Italy’s demographic crisis, he said pets were replacing children in many households. Also on stage were dozens of young people, wearing t-shirts saying “we can do this” – alluding to convincing…
Critics say Poland’s ruling party is creating a mechanism that would allow it to mobilise legal apparatus against political opponents. Poland’s lawmakers voted on Friday to approve a divisive law on Russian influence criticised by the European Union and the US. There are fears the law, proposed in May by Poland’s ruling right-wing Law and…
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers passed the most significant legislation regulating digital currency to date Thursday, approving a trio of bills aimed at revamping the nascent industry. Lawmakers approved the bipartisan GENIUS Act, which establishes a framework for overseeing the $238 billion stablecoin market — cryptocurrency that is pegged to hard assets like the US dollar…