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The African Union and Somalia have rejected Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as an independent state. Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 and has pushed for international recognition for decades, with president Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi making it a top priority since taking office last year. Israel announced Friday that itContinue Reading

  Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India’s northeastern state of Assam early Saturday, local authorities said. The train driver spotted the herd of about 100 elephants and used the emergency brakes,Continue Reading

  US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he does not rule out the possibility of a war with Venezuela. “I don’t rule it out, no,” he told NBC News in a phone interview released on Friday. Trump also declined to say whether ousting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro wasContinue Reading

  One of Russia’s allies in the European Union told CNBC he believes there is no way forward for proposals to fund the rebuilding of Ukraine via frozen Russian assets. The European Commission – the EU’s executive arm – is considering using seized Russian assets held in Europe to provideContinue Reading

  European Union countries will allocate 90 billion euros ($105.5 billion) in aid to Ukraine for 2026 and 2027, EU Council President Antonio Costa said on Friday. “We have a deal,” Costa wrote on social media platform X, confirming the package had been approved. EU governments had been debating whetherContinue Reading

  Belarusian Defence Minister Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin and his Zimbabwean counterpart Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri have signed an agreement on military co-operation between the two countries. The ceremony took place following talks between the heads of the defence ministries, the Belarusian ministry’s press service reported. The agreement provides for co-operation betweenContinue Reading

  Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned on Thursday, a day after thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets in nationwide protests. Zhelyazkov announced the decision minutes before lawmakers voted on the sixth no-confidence motion against his government. The motion, brought forward by opposition parties over what they described as failuresContinue Reading

  By : AFP US President Donald Trump deepened his rift with Europe in an interview published Tuesday, calling it “decaying” and blasting key allies as “weak” over immigration and Ukraine. Speaking to Politico, Trump also called on Ukraine to hold elections despite Russia’s invasion and questioned whether the countryContinue Reading

  China’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday delivered another letter to the United Nations chief, rejecting what Beijing calls Japan’s “unreasonable arguments” over Taiwan and reiterating its position on the issue. In the letter, Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the UN, said China “firmly opposes” Japan’s letterContinue Reading