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US, Niger to discuss withdrawal of American troops: Pentagon 2024-04-25
Anadolu Agency

US officials will meet Thursday with members of Niger's government on the withdrawal of American troops from the African country, said a Pentagon spokesman. "Per the U.S. State Department, U.S. Ambassador to Niger Kathleen FitzGibbon and...

photo: US Army / Sgt. 1st Class Mary S. Katzenberger, 3rd Special Forces Group

Israeli council considers issuing international arrest warrant for Netanyahu: Report 2024-04-25
Anadolu Agency

The Israeli National Security Council held secret discussions on the possibility of issuing international arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, a local media outlet reported Wednesday. Israel's Channel 13 reported...

photo: AP / Ariel Schalit

‘Waiting for Trump’: Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes 2024-04-25
AOL

Europe’s most isolated leader was beaming. Standing in a hallway in Brussels, Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, spoke excitedly about the politician he hopes will change his political fortunes – Donald Trump. The longtime leader, who has been widely criticised for undermining Hungary’s...

photo: Creative Commons / Vlada Republike Slovenije https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

China ‘gravely concerned’ over EU raids on security equipment company 2024-04-25
Al Jazeera

China has expressed “grave concern” over raids carried out by European officials on a Chinese company that manufactures security equipment. EU competition regulators on Tuesday raided offices of Chinese company Nuctech in the Netherlands and Poland as part of a probe into unfair state subsidies.Keep...

photo: Creative Commons / EU2017EE Estonian Presidency https://www.flickr.com/people/145047505@N06

How TikTok’s Chinese parent company will rely on an American right to keep the app alive 2024-04-25
CNN

TikTok’s expected legal challenge to a law signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden forcing the popular app’s parent company to spin off its US operations could be a seminal moment in First Amendment law in what is shaping up to be a year of defining cases. The new law gives TikTok’s parent company...

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Will Rwanda save Sunak – or sink him? 2024-04-25
The Spectator

When the Rwanda Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons just before Christmas, there was a revolt on the right of the Tory party. A group of legal experts, with the self-appointed ‘Star Chamber’ title, were convened by Eurosceptic MPs. They declared that Rishi Sunak’s plan was not...

photo: AP / Kin Cheung

Assange Assurances: An Australian Response 2024-04-24
Consortium News

The Australian government has been relatively quiet on the U.S. assurances on Julian Assange. CN Live! speaks to an Australian senator, lawyer and former diplomat for their views....

photo: AP / David Cliff

US top diplomat Blinken visits China amid escalated tensions over Taiwan 2024-04-24
Al Jazeera

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China for a three-day trip, following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Blinken, who landed in Shanghai on Wednesday, is expected to meet business leaders in...

photo: Public Domain / Chuck Kennedy

Cost of doing business with Iran? US warns Pakistan of sanctions risk 2024-04-24
Al Jazeera

Islamabad, Pakistan – The United States has warned Pakistan of the risk of sanctions after it promised greater security and economic cooperation with Iran during a visit by President Ebrahim Raisi. The first Iranian president to visit the South Asian country in eight years, Raisi concluded his...

photo: AP / Iranian Presidency Office

Musk v Australia heats up as church stabbing raids target network of allegedly radicalized teens 2024-04-24
CNN

In one camp is a tech billionaire with more than 181 million followers on his own social network. In the other, political leaders representing a country of just 26 million people. Insults have been hurled for days by both sides in an increasingly bare-knuckled fight between X owner Elon Musk and the...

photo: AP / Matt Rourke, file