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Rohingya have experienced increasing hostility in Indonesia as locals grow frustrated at the number of boats arriving from Myanmar with the ethnic minority More than 1,500 Rohingya refugees have arrived on the shores of Aceh province since mid-November, in what the UN says is the biggest influx in eight years A large crowd of Indonesian…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is on his way to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump, a planned trip now overshadowed by the escalation in the Middle East following the attacks by the US and Israel on Iran. It is a trip that had been planned for a long time, but under very different circumstances: This…
Donald Trump is expected to meet Qatar’s prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani on Friday evening in New York, just days after US ally Israel carried out an unprecedented air strike on the Qatari capital Doha. The bombing is the first such attack by Israel on Qatar, which has hosted multiple rounds of ceasefire…
Budgets expected to increase further amid ‘deteriorating security landscape’ triggered by invasion of Ukraine Global defence spending increased by 9% to a record $2.2tn during 2023 driven by heightened geopolitical tensions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to an annual assessment by a military thinktank. The International Institute of Strategic Studies added that it expected…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Hamas for refusing a UN-backed cease-fire proposal, saying the terror group could have halted the war in Gaza with a single word. Speaking from Qatar on Wednesday, Blinken pointed out that the current proposal is nearly identical to the one Hamas itself proposed last month, accusing the terrorists…
FBI supervisors across the country have received questionnaires to distribute to certain agents in their field offices containing questions about the agents’ possible work on Jan 6. Capitol riot cases, according to two sources familiar with the matter. A source familiar with the matter told CBS News the questionnaires are being sent to more than…