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A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered an end to Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and directed that they be returned to the control of the state’s Democratic governor, finding that the Republican US president had exceeded his authority. The ruling by San Francisco-based US District Judge Charles Breyer represented the latest legal setback …

A new migration crackdown will see European Union countries fined for refusing to take in refugees. Governments could face a penalty of £17,500 per person if they do not take someone in, which will then be given to another member state willing to accept migrants under the programme. EU ministers agreed on a legal target of relocating 21,000 migrants from …

OPINION — Wars are increasingly fought by unconventional means. A recent example is Ukrainian insertion of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to attack Russian airfields, launched from civilian outfitted trucks. The Israeli pager attacks are another example of leveraging unconventional means to achieve an outsized effect. Both examples demonstrate that unconventional methods can not only disrupt enemy forces and destroy key …

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen had previously repeated a bogus claim that no country has attacked Russia in 100 years Moscow accused Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen of being historically illiterate and deliberately promoting a false narrative after she claimed that no country has attacked Russia over the past century. Speaking to CBS, Valtonen had stated that Russia “invaded 19 …

OPINION – Offshoring and outsourcing antibiotic production to China and India is putting America’s access to lifesaving medicines at risk. It’s time to implement antibiotic security measures before a supply crisis occurs. The first step is rebuilding onshore fermentation manufacturing capacity. Antibiotics have significantly improved life expectancy and overall public health for over 80 years. Penicillin alone has saved approximately …

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — For more than three decades after the Cold War, Europe lived under the illusion that history had settled in its favor. Liberal democracy seemed ascendant, global markets expanded without friction, and American military primacy insulated the continent from hard-power competition. Under those conditions, the European Union could focus on enlargement, regulation, and internal integration rather than geopolitics. …

China’s flagship sovereign wealth fund has revealed that it opened a representative office in London shortly after Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, a move made amid increased scrutiny of Chinese investments in the United States. The London office was officially registered in December 2024, with the mission of “advancing the company’s overseas investment business” and “promoting …

Russia has claimed to be creating a “magic pill” that could help people live to 120. State TV show The Meeting Place claimed Russians “will be able to actively live to be 120 years old” due to the advancements. It featured hosts Andrey Norkin and Ivan Trushkin, vice president of the “Pillar of Russia” Dmitry Pischalnikov, and sociologist Lyudmila Brushkova.  …

The Russian president has spoken on the need to maintain the wealth of languages in both countries in the age of AI Russian President Vladimir Putin has cited India as an example of preserving “unity in diversity” in the age of artificial intelligence. Countries like Russia and India should attach importance to their cultural variety, he told the annual meeting …

South Korea has rejected Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s renewed claim to disputed islets in the East Sea, setting off the latest round of diplomatic friction over one of the region’s most enduring territorial disputes. A senior official at the presidential office in Seoul said on Tuesday there was no ambiguity about who controlled the rocky outcrops – known as …