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Germany’s eastern state of Thuringia elected a new premier on Thursday, after months of delicate negotiations ensured the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) could be left out of government despite winning elections in September. Mario Voigt from the conservative Christian … Read More

A massive $895 billion defense spending bill cleared the House of Representatives on Wednesday with provisions that would ban transgender medical treatments for minors and raise military pay. The must-pass legislation to fund the military for the next fiscal year passed in … Read More

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 … Read More

NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene said on Wednesday that the large U.S. proportion of Western defense spending is unfair to Washington and that Europe needs to step up and bolster its defense industries to … Read More

AI chatbots pushed a Texas teen to start cutting himself and even brought up kids killing their parents because they were limiting his screen time, a shocking new lawsuit claims. The 15-year-old boy became addicted to the Character.AI app, with … Read More

BRUSSELS, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Ukraine will soon get another 4.2 billion euros ($4.4 billion) in funds after the European Union’s member states approved the planned payment of the money, said the EU Council on Monday. The money, which forms … Read More

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian opposition war monitor said Tuesday, and the Israeli defense minister announced that his forces had destroyed … Read More

Dec. 10 (UPI) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was listed in stable condition while in intensive care on Tuesday after undergoing emergency brain surgery to address bleeding, physicians said. Lula, 79, was first taken to a hospital … Read More

Over 5,000 deaths have been recorded this year as violence spirals in the Caribbean country Close to 200 people were killed in the Haitian capital over the weekend after a gang leader ordered the butchering of elderly people he suspected … Read More

Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world’s fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete. The chip is the latest development … Read More

Sotheby’s is set to auction off the world’s oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The Tablet The 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab, engraved with the Ten Commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script, is set to be auctioned on December 18. … Read More

Ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad has fled to Russia after Islamist rebels rolled into the capital Damascus and ended his despotic family’s 50-year reign of terror. Assad, who inherited the office from his father in 2000, reportedly slipped out of … Read More

Greetings from Tyler, It turns out Nigel Farrage, mastermind of Brexit, is good buddies with Donald Trump. Problems that require money to fix are surmountable with Elon Musk on your side. Suddenly everyone is beating a path to Mar-a- Lago. … Read More

BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs, the country’s third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts Friday, positioning themselves for an assault on a potentially major prize in their march against … Read More

Dec. 6 (UPI) — Romania’s Constitutional Court Friday canceled the presidential run-off election between far-right candidate Calin Georgescu and centrist Elena Lasconi. The court cited a Russian propaganda campaign as the reason. The court said in a statement that its … Read More