Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with NATO chief Mark Rutte and key European leaders in Brussels Wednesday to strategise over Russia’s war ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.Addressing reporters alongside Rutte, Zelensky called it a “very good opportunity to speak about security guarantees for Ukraine, for today and for tomorrow.”The pair were …
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The haggard faces in the wreckage-and-water-strewn corridors betrayed the nerves and exhaustion of those soldiering on at the main hospital on the French archipelago of Mayotte, ravaged by a deadly cyclone last weekend.”It’s chaos,” summed up medical and administrative assistant Anrifia Ali Hamadi.”The roof is collapsing. We’re not very safe. Even I don’t feel safe …
A stone tablet carrying engravings of the Ten Commandments sold for $5 million at auction on Wednesday, Sotheby’s announced.The high figure was notched despite questions around the tablet’s authenticity: no one has claimed it is the original, of Biblical fame, but some experts expressed doubts around its purported provenance, dating between the years 300 and …
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An Indian navy speedboat undergoing tests in the busy seas off the financial capital Mumbai lost control and slammed into a ferry, killing 13 people, the navy and government said Wednesday.Videos posted by Indian newspapers — apparently filmed by some of the passengers on the crowded ferry — showed the open speedboat cruising through the …
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s wife Begona Gomez denied wrongdoing in court testimony Wednesday to an investigation into alleged corruption, one of several legal cases connected to the minority left-wing government.Her appearance at a Madrid court comes during a frenzied week of legal activity in cases involving Sanchez’s inner circle.These cases are still all at …
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France’s trial of a man who drugged his wife so dozens of strangers could rape her while unconscious has been both ordinary and extraordinary, AFP journalists who have been covering it say.Details of the case have horrified audiences in France and abroad since the trial began on September 2, drawing renewed attention on the widespread …
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The US Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter point Wednesday and signal a slower pace of cuts ahead, brushing off uncertainty about inflation’s path and Donald Trump’s economic proposals.The second day of the Fed’s rate-setting meeting began at 9:00 am time in Washington (1400 GMT), the US central bank announced …
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France’s highest appeals court on Wednesday confirmed a verdict against former president Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling, ordering him to wear an electronic tag for a year, a first for a former head of state.Sarkozy, who had earlier been found guilty of illegal attempts to secure favours from a judge, will “evidently” respect …
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All public transport in Serbia’s capital Belgrade will be free from next month — the latest European city to adopt the radical measure to counter gridlocked roads. “This means no one will have to pay for a ticket anymore,” mayor Aleksandar Sapic said Wednesday, with the city following the example of Luxembourg, the Estonian capital Tallinn …
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Human societies need a radical overhaul to stop the destruction of the planet, according to the UN biodiversity expert panel’s “transformative change” report released Wednesday. The assessment, the second by the expert panel this week, says overconsumption in richer countries, a concentration of wealth and power, and a society increasingly disconnected from nature, were driving …
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