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Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada will insist on a change of government in Iran before restoring diplomatic relations and announced additional sanctions on seven individuals tied to Tehran. She declined to say whether Canada would back any U.S. military strike. Separately, two U.S. officials said the U.S. military is prepari…
Armed attackers on motorbikes launched pre-dawn raids on three villages in Niger State’s Borgu Local Government Area, killing at least 30 people, burning homes and shops, and abducting an unknown number of residents, witnesses and officials said. The violence is part of a wider surge in attacks attributed to bandits across northern Nigeria and has …
At a large rally in Beirut marking the 21st anniversary of his father's assassination, former prime minister Saad al-Hariri said his Future Movement will participate in the next parliamentary elections. While Hariri did not make clear whether he will be a candidate, his statement ends the party's absence from the ballot in 2022 and comes as Lebanon…
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah, said U.S. military intervention could save lives and urged the Trump administration not to prolong negotiations with Iran’s clerical leadership. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, he argued an attack might weaken or hasten the government’s fall. The appeal came amid a broad crackdown in Ira…
Ethiopia's Media Authority has refused to renew credentials for three Reuters journalists based in Addis Ababa and revoked Reuters' accreditation to cover the 39th African Union summit in Addis Ababa on February 14-15. The action followed a Reuters investigative report alleging the existence of a training camp for fighters linked to Sudan's Rapid S…
Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops space telescope have identified a compact four-planet system orbiting the red dwarf LHS 1903, roughly 117 light-years away. The arrangement - a rocky planet closest to the star, two gaseous mini-Neptunes in the middle, and a rocky outermost planet - runs counter to common planet-formation expecta…
The Academy Museum in Los Angeles debuts an immersive exhibit dedicated to Hayao Miyazaki’s 2008 film 'Ponyo,' featuring over 100 original production materials from Studio Ghibli, hand-drawn art boards, production sketches by Miyazaki and a hands-on animation table that introduces children to stop-motion filmmaking.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a conciliatory message to European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, asserting that Washington does not seek to abandon the transatlantic alliance while also repeating criticism of European policy choices on issues such as mass migration and climate change. His speech was largely welcomed for i…
Ilker Catak’s film 'Yellow Letters,' competing at the Berlin Film Festival, examines how political pressure can dismantle private life and livelihoods. Shot in German cities but intended as an allegory for Turkey, the drama follows a married couple forced from their comfortable life after the husband is targeted by the state for online criticism. C…
At the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told European leaders that Washington does not intend to abandon the transatlantic alliance, while urging Europe to correct what he described as a series of policy mistakes. His address was broadly well-received by attending diplomats and security officials, yet it was short on …
At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated Washington's commitment to its alliance with Europe, stressing that the United States does not intend to abandon the transatlantic partnership and calling for European strength and survival as matters of shared destiny.
A Santa Clara County judge declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach unanimous verdicts in the case of five current and former Stanford students prosecuted for their roles in a 2024 pro-Palestinian occupation of the university president's office. The jury split in its votes on felony vandalism and felony conspiracy to trespass, and prosecuto…
The administration released a Maritime Action Plan on Friday laying out steps to revive U.S. shipbuilding and related maritime industries. The more-than-30-page blueprint proposes funding partly via port fees on cargo arriving on ships built in China - levies that the U.S. and China have agreed to pause for one year - and calls for maritime prosper…
Pima County investigators say video of a masked individual manipulating a doorbell camera at the home of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie is the strongest lead in her disappearance. Authorities have retrieved the footage from discarded digital data and say the image has generated thousands of tips while they continue to collect other surveillance and fore…
Two distinct diplomatic meetings are scheduled in Geneva on Tuesday: a U.S. delegation will meet with Iranian representatives in the morning with Omani mediation, and the same U.S. envoys will join trilateral discussions with Russian and Ukrainian officials in the afternoon. The arrangements were disclosed by a source briefed on the matter on Frida…
Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack. The planning comes amid diplomatic contacts between U.S. and Iranian envoys and additional U.S. force deployments to the Middle East, and officia…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told delegates at the Munich Security Conference that the United Kingdom is prepared to deepen defence cooperation with European partners to ease NATO's heavy reliance on the United States. He urged greater integration of Europe's defence industry, a new approach to procurement to cut duplication, and described a…
Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said a joint review of video footage by ICE and the Department of Justice indicates that sworn testimony from two federal officers appears to have been untruthful in the incident that led to a Venezuelan immigrant being shot in Minneapolis. Both officers have been placed on adminis…
Democratic lawmakers sharply criticized the Trump administration after it paused a set of proposed technology and trade restrictions targeting Chinese companies, including potential bans on China Telecom's U.S. operations, sales limits on Chinese equipment for American data centers, and curbs on routers and Chinese telecom internet businesses. Crit…
S&P Global Ratings has affirmed Angola's long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings at 'B-' and short-term at 'B', with a stable outlook. The agency pointed to the country's exposure to external market swings, a weaker fiscal trajectory and sizeable financing requirements, while noting foreign currency reserves and anticipated oi…
S&P Global Ratings upgraded Lebanon's long-term local-currency sovereign rating to 'CCC+' from 'CCC', citing improved ability to meet local-currency obligations driven by consecutive fiscal surpluses and reform progress tied to an IMF program. The agency retained the country's foreign-currency rating at 'SD' and assigned a stable outlook to the loc…
S&P Global Ratings upgraded its outlook on Tajikistan from stable to positive while maintaining the sovereign's long- and short-term foreign and local currency ratings at 'B'. The revision reflects stronger-than-expected balance of payments dynamics in 2025, fueled by a large rise in labor remittances, record international reserves supported by fav…
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, France’s president urged European states to move beyond short-term responses and build lasting strategic capabilities. He called for deep-strike capacity development, consultations on how France’s nuclear deterrent might integrate into a collective European security framework, and a reworking of a Cold Wa…
Iranian authorities released on bail three well-known reformist figures who were detained during a broad government campaign to suppress dissent, a lawyer told the semi-official ISNA news agency. The freed activists include the head of the moderate Reform Front coalition; their legal counsel said he had not been informed of any formal charges. Righ…
A missile strike in the Russian city of Belgorod killed two people and wounded three others, damaging energy infrastructure and causing outages to electricity, heating and water, regional authorities said. The attack also damaged three apartment buildings and triggered local air defences, according to regional officials and a Telegram channel repor…
