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The whereabouts of a six-year-old boy from China remain unknown after he was allegedly separated from his father while both were held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New York last week. The city’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday raised the issue on social media, saying that the first grader, named Yuanxin, was “arrested and separated” along with …

US Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, have held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as efforts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine continue. The pair met Putin on Tuesday at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, accompanied by Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy adviser, and Russian businessman Kirill Dmitriev. The discussions …

At a lengthy, end-of-year cabinet meeting, US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that “just a couple of days ago, China announced that they were going to halt all purchases from Brazil because they had found some irregularities in some of the soybeans they’re buying from Brazil”. Rollins cast the move as a “continued signal that this country and our farmers …

A touching and tearful remembrance ceremony took place on Tuesday to pay tribute to a much-loved local teacher who suddenly died just one day after her newborn baby. Aoife Bird died on Wednesday, November 26, in Co. Meath, Ireland, after she caught a sudden illness just hours after her baby Ailbha passed away. According to the Irish Mirror, Aoife was …

The conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was constructive, very useful, and substantive, according to Russian Presidential aide, Yuri Ushakov. He made the comment after five hours of talks between the Russian president, his envoy Kirill Dmitriev, and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Wtikoff which fininshed after midnight local time. …

The US may or may not be marching toward war with Venezuela, but at the moment, there’s another Latin American country that seems to be occupying President Donald Trump’s attention. Counting is currently underway in Honduras’s presidential election, which was held on Sunday, and the margins are razor thin, with Nasry “Tito” Asfura of the conservative National Party leading Salvador …

President Donald Trump promised to stop the Ukraine-Russia war shortly after taking office, but it’s been almost a year since he was sworn in, and the war rages on. There have been several starts and stops in this latest round of peace talks, including allegations that special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, was pro-Russia and coached his Russian …

The nation has maintained economic growth and low unemployment despite Western sanctions, the president has said The Russian economy continues to be resilient to the pressure of Western sanctions, President Vladimir Putin has said. The country is maintaining economic growth while keeping unemployment at a record lows and reining in inflation, he told the ‘Russia Calling!’ investment forum on Tuesday. …

Residents in a tiny Scottish village with an unfortunate name have been invited to the capital of Austria in a tongue-in-cheek gesture by its tourism board. The entire population of Dull in Perthshire, estimated to be around 100 people, have been invited to Vienna free of charge in the new year to assess whether the famed European city “falls flat” …