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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister said on Thursday the contested Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile is complete, a key step in a dispute with Egypt over water rights. Cairo opposes the project, fearing it will cut its vital Nile water supply, calling it an existential threat. Egypt, reliant on the Nile for agriculture and its 105 million […]

The US and Colombia recalled their top diplomats Thursday amid escalating tensions, linked to an alleged plot against Colombia’s leftist president. Washington first withdrew its chargé d'affaires, citing "baseless and reprehensible" comments from Colombia’s government, a State Department spokesperson said, without elaborating.

Afghanistan said on Thursday Russia had become the first country to officially recognise its Taliban-led government, calling it a "brave decision." The Taliban regained power in 2021 after toppling the Western-backed administration and have since enforced strict Islamic law.

The Russian Navy's deputy commander Mikhail Gudkov was killed during "combat operations" in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, officials in Moscow said Thursday. Gudkov, who was promoted by President Vladimir Putin earlier this year, is one of the most senior Russian military officers to have been killed since the start of the war.

In tonight's edition, M23 rebels are laying out their demands in eastern DRC, including the release of prisoners and the dropping of arrest warrants, as peace talks continue in Doha.  Also, Narendra Modi's visit is the first to Ghana by an Indian leader in three decades.  And Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam is now complete, marking […]

The Trump administration recently opened their new migrant detention center dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ located in the Florida everglades. The facility is surrounded by what state officials have called ‘alligator cops’ serving as a natural barrier that will deter any type of escape. Days before the opening of the detention center, the DHS […]

A walkout by French air traffic controllers is causing major disruptions to summer travel, impacting not just French airports but also the country’s airspace. The US House of Representatives has passed Donald Trump’s sweeping budget bill, stripping millions of Americans of food benefits. Plus, France’s antitrust agency is fining fast-fashion […]

France is demanding the immediate release of two of its citizens held in Iran for more than three years, accusing the Islamic Republic of detaining Cecile Kohler and partner Jacques Paris arbitrarily, keeping them in conditions akin to torture in Tehran's Evin security prison and barring proper consular protection. French President Emmanuel Macron […]

The Republican-led US Congress narrowly passed President Donald Trump's flagship spending bill Thursday after a marathon voting session on the package, which is set to slash social welfare programs and add more than $3 trillion to the national debt. The White House said Trump would sign the bill on Friday at 5pm local time to mark America's […]

Remember last week and that collective sigh of relief among allies that Donald Trump had a) showed up at the Nato summit and b) agreed to a sidebar meeting with his Ukranian counterpart after which the U-S president gushed that Volodymyr Zelenskiy “couldn't have been nicer.” Quite the contrast with that February White House ambush on live […]