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The suspect behind the deadly incident at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg, a Saudi national identified as Taleb A., had prior run-ins with law enforcement, multiple media outlets reported on Saturday. His home country’s requests for extradition, however, had been met with silence. Saudi Arabia warned …

Over 15,000 British soldiers left the Armed Forces in November 2023 through October 2024, The Telegraph reported on Saturday. The resignations continue to come despite the government’s attempt to stem the recruitment crisis with a record pay raise. The newspaper noted that more than half of 15,119 people who left …

At least 38 people were killed in a road traffic accident in Brazil on Saturday when a packed bus collided with a truck and burst into flames in the state of Minas Gerais, local officials have reported. According to the state’s fire department, cited by AP, another 13 people were …

Russia should have launched its military campaign against Kiev earlier, after realizing that neither Ukraine nor its Western backers were committed to a peaceful settlement of the Donbass crisis, President Vladimir Putin has said. In an interview with Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin on Sunday, Putin acknowledged that while it is …

Qatar will stop gas shipments to the EU if member states enforce new legislation on carbon emissions, the Gulf nation’s energy minister Saad al-Kaabi has told the Financial Times (FT). Qatar has become an important supplier to the bloc after Brussels resolved to wean itself off Russian gas following the …

Across India, a three-day festival celebrated the centenary of the original showman of Indian cinema, Raj Kapoor. To commemorate his 100th birth anniversary, as many as 101 theatres in 34 cities screened seven of his most popular movies, including Awaara (1951), Jagte Raho (1956), Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960), …

An investigation launched by Romanian authorities has discovered that the social media campaign that contributed to last month’s surprise first-round win by independent candidate Calin Georgescu in the country’s presidential election was not funded by Russia but rather by the pro-Western National Liberal Party (PNL), the media outlet Snoop has …

The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump hopes to pull the country out of the World Health Organization (WHO) the first day of the new administration, thus cutting one of the agency’s major cash flows, the Financial Times (FT) has reported, citing health experts. Members of Trump’s team told …

An Antonov An-2 single-engine plane that went missing over Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East on Thursday has been found, and all three aboard survived the crash, emergencies services have said. The Soviet-designed aircraft, owned by the company Fieravia, signaled that it was conducting an emergency landing four days ago, …