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Slovakia has no plans to quickly abandon Russian oil supplies, President Peter Pellegrini told Trump during talks in New York this week. Trump has been pressing the European Union‘s holdouts – Hungary and Slovakia – to end imports of Russian crude, arguing it would help choke off Moscow’s war funding and push Putin toward peace…

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro shrugged off the Trump administration’s decision to revoke his visa after he participated in a pro-Palestine protest on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York this week.“I no longer have a visa to travel to the US. I don’t care,” Petro said in an X post on Saturday…

During a panel discussion featuring world leaders and philanthropists in New York on Thursday afternoon, Alex Soros said the $23 billion philanthropic organisation he leads would not cave to pressure from President Trump.Soros, the son of billionaire investor and Democratic megadonor George Soros, defiantly told attendees that the organisation had done nothing wrong and would…

NEW YORK: Despite being among one of the world’s worst performers when it comes to democracy, and registering a high number of human rights violation cases, Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif defended the country’s ‘hybrid model’ of governance where the army and civilian leadership work hand in glove in running the country.He made the remarks…

D4vd’s Tesla gathered a layer of dust for days. Was Celeste’s body already there? Shocking details about D4vd’s Tesla, where teen Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s body was found, have been revealed, complicating the timeline of the case. LA Times reported that the Tesla had been parked on Bluebird Avenue so long that some residents complained about…

Errol Musk, 79, the father of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, according to a report published by The New York Times on Tuesday.Based on personal letters, emails, and interviews with family members, The New York Times reported that Errol Musk, who has…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that China has the potential to pressure Russia to end the war, following US calls for Beijing to halt its oil purchases from Moscow.“China is also represented here, a powerful nation on which Russia now depends completely,” Zelensky told the council, noting China’s status…

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate $500 million in federal research grants to the University of California, Los Angeles, ruling that the government likely violated the law when it froze the funding.US District Judge Rita Lin issued a preliminary injunction in San Francisco, saying the suspensions breached the Administrative Procedure…

US secretary of state Marco Rubio meets Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa in New York (Picture credit: X/@SecRubio) Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa held talks with US secretary of state Marco Rubio in New York on Monday, marking a significant step in Syria’s reintegration with the West after decades of isolation. The meeting took place on the…

Immigration enforcement officials have arrested almost 550 people in the Chicago area as part of an operation launched on September 8, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday. The updated figure follows a senior ICE official telling The Associated Press that more than 400 arrests had already been made, signalling a major enforcement effort similar…