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An Afghan man who killed two people, including a toddler, during a knife attack on a nursery group in a park has been ordered into psychiatric care by a German judge. A 2-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man, who attempted to protect the children, both died in the harrowing attack in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg, western Germany, in January …

Trust the unsinkable politician fond of rebranding bombings as democracy to fix Britain’s energy woes Tony Blair is back to explain how Britain should rescue itself, bringing along a new report from his Tony Blair Institute for Global Change that rebrands the country’s energy ambitions yet again. Once upon a recent time, the dream was called ‘Clean Power 2030’. Now it …

And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. – John Steinbeck, East of Eden Evil people don’t have songs. How is it, then, that the Russians have songs? – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols OPINION — The war that Russian …

OPINION — Last week’s Fourth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party witnessed a purge of China’s senior military leaders, culminating in over two years of the removal of senior military officials once loyal to President Xi Jinping. The last two defense ministers – Wei Feng he and Li Shangfu – were removed in October 2023 and June 2024. And now, …

One of Vladimir Putin’s top propagandists has said Ukrainians should flee Kyiv as he urged Russia to strike a dam in the capital. Kremlin loyalist and TV host Vladimir Solovyov said Moscow’s forces should carry out the action in response to Ukrainian strikes on a dam inside Russian territory. The Ukrainian military earlier this week claimed the attack on the …

“Targeting fast boat operators will not stop major drug trafficking kingpins from sending multi-ton quantities of drugs to our country and around the world,” Michael Chavarria, a former DEA supervisor who spent 26 years investigating drug cartels in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Southwest border, told The Cipher Brief. “The drug trade is the most profitable business in the world, …

The US government shutdown barrelled towards its second month on Friday and the pain is spreading fast – with federal workers broke, food aid vanishing and millions of Americans caught in the crossfire. What started on October 1 as a Washington sideshow has morphed into a slow-motion implosion of public services and a growing economic convulsion, with federal offices dark …

Members of the Trump administration have been seeking increased security after the killing of Charlie Kirk, the outlet has said High-ranking US officials, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have left their homes in Washington and moved to military bases outside the capital, The Atlantic has reported. Members of the administration of US President …

A 16-year-old boy has admitted joining a Taiwan-based political group to seek Hong Kong’s independence in breach of the national security law. The Form Three student pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy to commit secession between November 2024 and July this year for his role as secretary of the Hong Kong Democratic Independence Union. The District Court heard that the …

A British man tragically died after a fire broke out in a spa at a luxury hotel in Morocco. Anthony Barnes, 48, was in the North African country on a business trip with colleagues and was staying at the five-star Jaal Riad resort. The trip was part of a work celebration event that took place in March 2023, an inquest …