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Elon Musk backs Germany’s far-right AfD before elections 

20 December 2024

US billionaire Elon Musk has backed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as the European country gears up f...

US charges IRGC officer with killing of American citizen in Iraq 

20 December 2024

News|Crime The United States has charged an alleged officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with �...

UNRWA chief slams Sweden’s ‘disappointing’ decision to end funding 

20 December 2024

Sweden will no longer fund the United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) and will instead provide increased...

Canada’s Trudeau reshuffles cabinet amid persistent pressure to resign 

20 December 2024

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reshuffled his cabinet, just days after his top deputy resigned in a move tha...

More than 700 killed in siege of Sudan’s el-Fasher, UN says 

20 December 2024

More than 700 people have been killed in el-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, the United Nations human r...

Trump threatens tariffs if EU doesn’t buy more oil and gas from US 

20 December 2024

Donald Trump has threatened to levy tariffs against the European Union if the bloc does not buy more oil and gas from th...

Spain court sentences ex-IMF chief to more than four years over corruption 

20 December 2024

A Madrid court has sentenced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Rodrigo Rato to more than four years in pris...

‘Many more Russian war criminals on our list’: Ukraine vows more attacks 

20 December 2024

Kyiv, Ukraine – Igor Kirillov, the 54-year-old general who led Russia’s nuclear protection forces, was assassinated ...

Biden cancels another $4.2bn in US student loans before leaving office 

20 December 2024

News|Joe Biden US President Joe Biden’s administration is cancelling student loans for another 55,000 people in the Un...

US officials on first diplomatic trip to Syria since al-Assad’s removal 

20 December 2024

The first United States diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad was removed earlier this month are holdin...