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Belgium has angered Rwanda by condemning its role in backing the M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda has stopped its aid cooperation with Belgium, following Brussels’ criticism of Kigali’s involvement in the ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Belgium accuses Rwanda of undermining the DRC’s territorial integrity by supporting the M23 rebels, who have seized two major cities in the east of the country in recent weeks. Angered by this message, Rwanda announced on Tuesday that it was suspending its 2024-2029 bilateral aid programme with Belgium. The Rwandan authorities released a statement on Tuesday…
Vitali Klitschko warns millions of Ukrainians would be disenfranchised if elections were held while war rages. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech Share
Updated: 20/02/2025 – 21:11 GMT+1An off-duty firefighter and a police officer rescued a woman from a burning car after a crash near Phoenix, Arizona, with help from passersby. … More A dramatic rescue took place on 18 February near Phoenix, Arizona, when an off-duty firefighter and a police officer saved a woman trapped in a burning car after a crash.Bodycam footage shows Officer Brian Larison smashing the car window to free her.The firefighter, en route to work and armed with protective gear, joined the effort. Passersby also helped out as the group worked together to pull the woman to safety…
The meeting will take place on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, days after the U.S. president blamed Ukraine for starting the war Moscow launched in February 2022. The meeting comes as the EU’s College of Commissioners announced it was heading to Ukraine to discuss the bloc’s security after top European leaders were left out of Trump’s talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia Feb. 18. Zelenskyy, who confirmed at a press conference Wednesday that he was expecting several heads of state and EU leaders in Kyiv Feb. 24, is trying to rally allies after Trump called him incompetent and a…
Updated: 20/02/2025 – 20:40 GMT+1A train derailed in Sri Lanka after colliding with a herd of elephants, killing six of them. No passengers were injured, while two elephants are being treated. … More A tragic incident occurred in Sri Lanka when the Batticaloa-Colombo train, called “Meenagaya,” collided with a herd of elephants near Gal Oya in Polonnaruwa. Six elephants were killed and the train derailed..The collision happened before dawn near Habarana, close to a wildlife reserve, while the elephants were crossing the tracks. No passengers were injured, and wildlife authorities are treating two surviving elephants at the scene. Video footage…
From raging against DEI initiatives to taking over the Kennedy Center, Trump has used his first month in office to severely change the cultural landscape of the USA. On Sunday, Julianne Moore revealed that her children’s book ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ had been “banned by the Trump Administration” from schools run by the Department of Defence. The Still Alice actor, who had attended a Department of Defence-run school as her father was a Vietnam veteran, expressed her “shock” that her 2007 semi-autobiographical story about a girl accepting her freckles was one of the many books now forbidden by the Trump administration in…
Tout cela fait partie d’un schéma dans lequel elle et un cercle restreint de conseillers essentiellement allemands dirigent les opérations, en évitant largement le contrôle du Parlement européen et en gardant la mainmise sur tous les messages et toutes les communications. La pneumonie de von der Leyen en janvier a fourni un exemple frappant de la façon dont les choses fonctionnent désormais. Son équipe de communication a délibérément dissimulé le fait qu’une grande dirigeante mondiale était hospitalisée, tandis que l’Allemande elle-même n’a pas cédé le contrôle de l’exécutif européen à son numéro 2. Cela signifie également qu’une réunion des 27…
The agency also prevented one government from luring a human rights advocate abroad, where they faced potential injury or death, the country’s spy chief disclosed on Wednesday. Australia’s spy agency has uncovered three separate foreign plots to physically harm individuals living in the country, Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Mike Burgess revealed on Wednesday.In his annual address outlining national security threats, Burgess did not disclose the countries involved. However, he did state that an unnamed regime had planned to harm or assassinate one or more individuals in Australia as part of a broader global effort to silence…
Former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of a crime of sexual assault after forcibly kissing footballer Jenni Hermoso. Rubiales, who kissed Hermoso without consent after her team won the Women’s World Cup in August 2023, was fined €10,800 by Spain’s National Court, banned from approaching Hermoso within 200 meters and from communicating with her for one year. “This action of giving a woman a kiss on the mouth has a clear sexual connotation, and it is not the normal way of greeting people with whom one does not have an emotional relationship,” Judge José Manuel…
Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator,” escalating tensions in the aftermath of US-Russia talks over Ukraine. The exchange of criticism between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his US counterpart Donald Trump further escalated on Wednesday after Trump labelled the Ukrainian leader a “dictator”.”I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his country is shattered, and millions have unnecessarily died,” Trump says in a post on Truth Social.”Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left,” he added.Trump’s harsh words came in response to an earlier statement by Zelenskyy, who said…