Trump says he had ‘every right’ to interfere in 2020 election

Republican former U.S. President Donald Trump, who faces federal and state charges accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democratic President Joe Biden, insists he had “every right” to interfere in that election.
“Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering…[Read more]

US Seizes Venezuelan President’s Plane in Dominican Republic

he United States has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and flown it from the Dominican Republic to Florida after determining that its purchase violated U.S. sanctions, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.

The seizure of the aircraft came amid continuing…[Read more]

Far-right AfD eyes big gains in German elections

Voters in Germany’s two eastern states are due to cast their ballots in elections in which the far right is expected to perform strongly.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been polling top in Thuringia ahead of Sunday’s vote, while the party has been running neck-and-neck for first place with…[Read more]

Austria to work with Germany on deportations of people with criminal records to Afghanistan

Austria’s Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum has said that deportations to Afghanistan are permissible on a case-by-case basis due to the changed security situation in the country.

Austria has fallen in line with Germany and said it intends to…[Read more]

Germany expels head of banned Muslim association

Germany has told the Iranian head of the recently banned Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH) that he is being expelled from the country and has two weeks to leave, authorities in Hamburg said on Thursday.
The interior ministry of the German city state of Hamburg said in a statement that it had informed…[Read more]

Germany deports 28 Afghans for first time since 2021 Taliban takeover

‘Our security counts,’ German interior minister says as government confirms those deported are convicted criminals.

Germany has deported 28 Afghan nationals charged with criminal acts, in the first such move since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 202…[Read more]

Deportation flight leaves Germany for Afghanistan

A flight has taken off from an airport in eastern Germany deporting individuals to Afghanistan. It is the first deportation of Afghans since the Taliban took power in Kabul in 2021.

A deportation flight to Afghanistan has left Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport, the Interior Ministry for the state…[Read more]

Their loved ones died after receiving pig organ transplants. The families have no regrets.

David Bennett Jr. knelt by his bedside, phone in hand, anxiously awaiting a call that no one had ever received: The hospital was due to update him on whether his father was still alive after getting a new heart — from a pig.

It was the first time any l…[Read more]

Harris defends her policy changes in first interview: ‘My values have not changed’

Vice President Kamala Harris was pressed about her policy evolutions Thursday in her first interview since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, sitting alongside her running mate, Tim Walz.

The highly anticipated interview, with CNN’s Dana Bas…[Read more]

When the US left Kabul, these Americans tried to help Afghans left behind. It still haunts them

The United States’ longest war is over. But not for everyone.

Outside of San Francisco, surgeon Doug Chin has helped provide medical assistance to people in Afghanistan via video calls. He has helped Afghan families with their day-to-day living e…[Read more]

Ballot measures in 41 states give voters a say on abortion and other tough questions

Life, death, crime and taxes will be on ballots for voters to decide this fall.

More than 140 measures are going before voters in 41 states during the general election alongside choices for president and other top offices. The ballot questions will give voters a…[Read more]

Germany: Several killed in stabbing at Solingen street party

Police have launched a manhunt after a man killed three people and seriously injured five more with a knife. The attack took place as the city of Solingen was celebrating its 650th anniversary.

Three people were killed and five seriously injured in a knife attack in the western German…[Read more]

German police yet to identify attacker who stabbed 3 to death at festival despite major manhunt

A major manhunt is underway in Germany after an attacker stabbed to death three people at a festival on Friday evening in the western city of Solingen but police say they are yet to identify the suspect.

Police said a 15-year-old boy was arrested on…[Read more]

Solingen stabbing: Three killed in attack at Germany festival

Police say search under way for unknown assailant after attack on festivalgoers that injured eight people.

Police in Germany are searching for an unidentified suspect behind a mass stabbing at a festival in the western city of Solingen in which three people were killed.

Eight people…[Read more]

France: Macron says arson attack on synagogue ‘terrorist’

Two cars were torched near a French synagogue in the town of La Grande-Motte, with one of the vehicles exploding and injuring a police officer. President Emmanuel Macron described it as a “terrorist act.”

French authorities condemned an attack targeting a Jewish synagogue in the southern…[Read more]

Viral US TikToker’s mission to prove British food isn’t bland after all

A TikTok star from a small city in Tennessee has made it his mission to show the world British food is not all that bad.
Food reviewer Kalani Smith, who goes by Kalani Ghost Hunter (KGH) online, racks up millions of views posting his reviews on social media – from Welsh cakes…[Read more]

Kamala Harris campaign is light on policy – but that’s helped her transform the race

The month since Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign has been a largely unprecedented spell in American politics: never has a modern general election campaign gone from a standstill to a full sprint so quickly.
In that time Democrats pulled together a…[Read more]

Ukraine keeps crossing Russia’s red lines. Putin keeps blinking

Ukraine’s punch through Russian defenses in the first foreign invasion since World War II has laid bare Moscow’s apparently illusory red lines.

Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion keeps crossing President Vladimir Putin’s red lines.

Kyiv’s lightning incursion into Kursk in…[Read more]

A different kind of Trump goes on display

The pork sausage was a sign that this was going to be different. Or at least, that it was meant to be.
Like a grocery store employee in front of a concession stand, Donald Trump stood framed by the everyday items of an American shopping basket.
Breakfast oats. Bread. Butter. The sausage.
In a…[Read more]

Five charged over Matthew Perry’s death

Five people have been charged in the drug-related death of Matthew Perry last year, police say, including two doctors and the actor’s personal assistant.
Police said on Thursday that their investigation, launched in May, uncovered a “broad underground criminal network” of drug suppliers who distributed…[Read more]