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Egypt is training hundreds of Palestinian police officers with an eye towards integrating them into a post-war security force in Gaza, according to a Palestinian official. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced the plan to train 5,000 officers for Gaza during talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa in August. A first group of more than 500 officers was trained …

Ankara has warned against spreading the war to the Black Sea. Türkiye has condemned the drone attacks on two sanctioned oil tankers off its Black Sea coast, which Ukraine reportedly claimed responsibility for. According to Turkish officials, the Gambian-flagged vessels Kairos and Virat were struck on Friday while en route to the Russian port of Novorossiysk. The ships caught fire, …

The eight milk tea-coloured towers of Wang Fuk Court were special sentinels to many locals in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. Residents say that whenever they saw the blocks emerging into view on the northern-bound left side of Tolo Highway on their daily commute after work, they knew they were back home. Home was their idyllic estate with its winding …

Budapest has defended Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin Hungary has defended Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s trip to Moscow despite the EU’s diplomatic boycott of Russia. Orban met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, discussing Ukraine, trade, and energy supplies. In a Facebook post on Saturday, Szijjarto dismissed criticism from what he called “European pro-war …

Despite years of policy interventions, air pollution in India is rapidly getting worse. By the middle of this month, cities including the capital New Delhi were seeing air quality readings at hazardous levels. A 2024 IQ Air report found India’s particulate matter (PM2.5) levels to be more than 10 times the World Health Organization’s safe limit. In the north, pollution …

The US leader has said rolling back his import taxes would make America a “pathetic laughingstock” as the Supreme Court mulls their legality President Donald Trump has claimed that the US holds “all the cards” thanks to his tariffs, without which the country “would be a poor and pathetic laughingstock again.” In April, Trump introduced sweeping import duties affecting dozens …

More than 600 officers from the Hong Kong Police Force’s Disaster Victim Identification Unit (DVIU) searched two fire-ravaged blocks of the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po without finding any more bodies on Saturday. The death toll from the blaze remains at 128, but 150 people are still unaccounted for. Dressed in white full-body protective gear, the DVIU …

Donald Trump has ordered the closure of Venezuela’s airspace in his latest crackdown on “drug dealers and human traffickers”. The US President took to his social media platform Truth Social to issue a fiery message. He wrote: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.” …

Vladimir Putin has been left humiliated after Ukraine launched a strike on two of Russia’s shadow fleet ships, with one erupting into a huge fireball – while Donald Trump’s 28-point peace plan is still on the table. An official from the SBU, Ukraine‘s security service, told Reuters that the operation was conducted alongside the navy. Turkey also reported earlier today …

The bloc has paid lip service to the US proposal while “slowly and politely smothering it,” the newspaper claims The European Union, along with the UK, has deliberately torpedoed the US peace roadmap aimed at ending the Ukraine conflict in the apparent hope that it “will fizzle out,” The Guardian has claimed. Russia has repeatedly accused the EU of sabotaging …