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China showcases alternative world order at Tianjin gathering

Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin and other key Eurasian leaders on Sunday as China hosts a major summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The gathering, held in Tianjin, is being presented as a showcase of a new international order led by China, at......

French foreign minister visits Greenland amid geopolitical tensions

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot arrived in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, on Saturday evening for a two-day diplomatic visit. His trip aims to reaffirm France’s solidarity with the people of Greenland, at a time when the Arctic territory has become the focus of renewed international......

Volkswagen Brazil to appeal slavery ruling from 1970s and 1980s

Volkswagen do Brasil, the Brazilian subsidiary of the German automaker, announced it will appeal a court decision that found the company guilty of maintaining workers in conditions akin to slavery during the 1970s and 1980s. The labor court in the state of Pará ruled on Friday that hundreds of......

EU urges Washington to reconsider Palestinian visa decision

The European Union called on Saturday for the United States to “reconsider” its refusal to grant visas to Palestinian officials planning to attend the UN General Assembly in New York this September. “We urgently request that this decision be reconsidered in light of international law,”......

Houthi political leaders killed in recent Israeli strikes on Sanaa

Houthi rebels in Yemen announced on Saturday that their "Prime Minister" and several ministers were killed in Israeli airstrikes carried out Thursday on the capital, Sanaa. According to a statement from Houthi authorities cited by the rebel news channel Al-Massirah, “Government chief......

Alawite families forced to flee neighborhood near Damascus

Dozens of Alawite families in Syria were compelled to leave their neighborhood near Damascus following threats from armed men, residents told AFP on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that an armed group entered the Soumariya district, west of Damascus, on Thursday, forcing......

Alarm over far-right extremists using drones for domestic attacks in the US

US authorities are raising concerns over the potential use of drones by far-right extremists in domestic attacks. Experts warn that both commercially available and home-built first-person view (FPV) drones could become key tools in an anticipated insurgency against the government. Analysts report that......

Utah high court halts firing squad execution of man with Dementia

The Utah Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, a 67-year-old man convicted of killing Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, after his attorneys argued that he suffers from severe dementia. Menzies had been scheduled to face a firing squad on September 5, a method he chose......

Car plows into crowd outside bar in northern France, leaving one dead and five injured

A tragic incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday in Évreux, Normandy, when a man drove a car into a crowd outside a bar, killing one person and injuring five others. According to prosecutors, the attack followed a dispute inside the establishment around 4 a.m. Staff members had escorted......

Red Cross warns against evacuation of Gaza City as Israel tightens siege

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issued a stark warning on Saturday regarding Israel’s plan to evacuate Gaza City, stressing that such an operation is “impossible” under the current humanitarian conditions. Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the ICRC, declared that......

Former Ukrainian parliament speaker shot dead in Lviv

Former speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, Andriy Parubiy, a prominent figure of the 2014 pro-European Maidan revolution, was shot dead on Saturday in the western city of Lviv, according to national authorities. The assailant fled the scene, prompting a large-scale manhunt. The prosecutor general’s......

Xi Jinping welcomes world leaders ahead of SCO summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping began hosting foreign leaders on Saturday in Tianjin, northern China, ahead of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. Among the first to meet Xi were United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, according......

Massive Russian attack hits Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region

The Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine was struck by a large-scale Russian attack during the night of Friday, August 29, to Saturday, August 30, according to the regional governor. This comes as Kyiv acknowledged earlier this week that Russian forces had breached the region for the first time since the......