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Breaking News | Germany | NewsGermany debates tying citizenship to Israel loyalty
Saxony-Anhalt, a state in Germany has done what many around the country are calling for: If you want to be a citizen of Germany, you need to pledge allegiance to Israel. The legality of this remains unclear. Effective immediately, those applying forGerman citizenship in the east-central state of Saxony-Anhalt must declare their support for Israel’s…
Breaking News | India | NewsIndia’s top court upholds end of special status for Kashmir, orders polls
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…
Britain charges sixth Bulgarian national in Russian spying investigation
Feb. 28 (UPI) — British Metropolitan Police on Wednesday charged a sixth Bulgarian national living in London with spying for Russia. Metropolitan Police said Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev, 38, was set to appear in Westminster Magistrates’ Court Wednesday after he was arrested by Counter Terrorism Command on Feb. 7. He is charged with “conspiring to collect…
Typhoon Gaemi hits China after deaths in Taiwan and Philippines
Typhoon Gaemi has made landfall in mainland China after wreaking havoc in Taiwan and the Philippines. More than 150,000 people living in the south-eastern Chinese province of Fujan have been relocated to safer areas in anticipation of the storm. It comes after widespread flooding and landslides across Taiwan and the Philippines, killing at least 21…
Suspected Chinese spy balloon drifting over U.S. has surveillance part as big as multiple school buses
China acknowledged Friday that a high-altitude balloon spotted this week over Montana does in fact belong to Beijing, but it referred to the airship as a civilian device “used for scientific research such as meteorology.” A senior defense official told CBS News on Thursday that the Defense Department was “confident” that it was, in fact,…


