Thomas Massie has reintroduced eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the House floor, renewing a War Powers case centered on the Iran war.

French people like me live in fear because far-right hate speech goes unchecked. The consequences can be deadly

Anger at the dilapidated state of schools may have been the starting point for the unrest that has rocked France for over a month, but the protest movement has grown into something much bigger. It has widened to take in a far broader segment of society whose grievances, including institutional racism and Islamophobia, are now connecting.

I have no doubt that one of direct causes of this snowball effect is the repressive nature of the response to the initial protests, which were treated entirely as a matter of law and order – criminalised, not listened to.

Kamélia Ouaissa is a French journalist based in Paris

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Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said U.S. duties on lumber, steel, aluminum, and autos were costing Canadian jobs as Ottawa aims to double trade with partners outside the U.S. over the next decade.

Washington has outlined a strategy that could give U.S. companies access to Myanmar’s rare earth deposits. The country’s main production sites are held by an armed group backed by Beijing.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie filed articles accusing the Pentagon chief of bypassing Congress over the Iran war, even as President Donald Trump pledged to stand by Hegseth.

In a country of severe water scarcity, the Abu Obeida mosque in Deir Alla captures ablution wastewater before it reaches the sewers to use for irrigation

The Abu Obeida mosque in Deir Alla, Balqa, to the west of Amman, stands in one of the hottest and most arid stretches of the Jordan valley. Yet an oasis of trees and flowerbeds surrounds it, improbably green against a landscape of bare ochre hills, watered by drip irrigation lines that run along the ground between the roots.

The water does not come from the municipal network, but from the taps where worshippers wash their hands, faces and feet before prayer.

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Boy says he was first exposed to extremist material on TikTok, turned to Telegram and YouTube for bomb-making instructions, and used ChatGPT to devise his plans

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A teenager who admitted to planning a terrorist attack in Sydney in 2024 has told the court he was radicalised online after first seeing extremist material on TikTok and used ChatGPT to form his plans.

The 16-year-old, known under the pseudonym as RK due to his age, pleaded guilty to acts in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act. In a sentencing ruling on Monday, he avoided jail time, with the New South Wales supreme court ordering him into a three-year community corrections order.

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned he will block the EU’s next seven-year budget unless every member state commits to financing Ukraine in 2027 and beyond, the Financial Times reports.

The New York Times reports that a Commerce Department inquiry into Singapore’s Megaspeed was transferred to the Justice Department after Nvidia’s general counsel emailed agents, citing permission from Under Secretary Jeff Kessler.

Finland and Norway relayed Kyiv’s terms for discussing territory in a call with Vladimir Putin. The backlash exposed a split over how Europe can influence U.S.-led negotiations.

French officials suspect Iran was behind the October cyberattack that heated supermarket refrigerators across France, Reuters reported Monday, citing sources familiar with the investigation.

A senior Iranian security official tells Press TV that media claims of a JD Vance–Mohsen Rezaei meeting in Doha are off the table, saying Tehran’s negotiation policy is unchanged until Washington meets its seven conditions.

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Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi made an unannounced visit to Tehran on Friday for talks with Iran’s negotiating chief Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on ending the Iran–U.S. war, Iranian media reported.

A Toluna Harris Interactive poll for M6 and RTL puts Marine Le Pen at 34–36% in France’s 2027 first round, with Jean-Luc Mélenchon reaching the runoff in every scenario tested.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says the end of online betting is already lifting the economy, with families spending more after the September ban on fixed-odds bets.

A Russian military Tu-154 used to carry senior officials and troops landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday evening after leaving a Moscow-area air base, KAN News reports; the purpose of the visit remains unknown.

The ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, says she plans to surrender in court after a death sentence was handed down in her absence. Dhaka wants India to extradite her.

Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalın says Qatar will host Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s Mohsen Rezaei next week, calling the Doha meeting an important breakthrough chance.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani says Damascus has no forces in Yemen and no near-term plan to send any, rejecting reports of a Syrian deployment tied to Saudi Arabia’s campaign against the Houthis.