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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said he would rather be branded a “dictator” than allow criminals to run loose, defying critics in a barnstorming speech marking one year since his re-election. His hardline approach to El Salvador’s powerful gangs has made him one of the world’s most domestically popular leaders, even as human rights defenders […]

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Nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki is predicted to have won Poland’s presidential election, a projection showed on Monday in what would be a major blow for the country’s pro-EU government. Nawrocki, an admirer of US President Donald Trump, won 51 percent of votes against 49 percent for his liberal rival Rafal Trzaskowski, according to the Ipsos […]

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The FBI chief said Sunday the agency was investigating a “targeted terror attack” in Boulder, Colorado, amid reports of an assault on a pro-Israel demonstration in the US city. “We are aware of and fully investigating a targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado,” Kash Patel said on X, adding that “our agents and local law […]

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At least seven people were killed Saturday when a bridge collapsed onto a railway in a Russian region bordering Ukraine, a governor said, which Moscow Railways blamed on “illegal interference”. “There are seven dead as a result of the collapse of a bridge onto railway tracks. Thirty victims, including two children, were taken to medical […]

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Elon Musk on Saturday denied a report that he used ketamine and other drugs extensively last year on the 2024 campaign trail. The New York Times reported Friday that the billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump used so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that he developed bladder problems. The newspaper said the world’s richest person […]

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India’s defence chief on Saturday appeared to confirm his country had lost at least one aircraft during the brief conflict with Pakistan earlier this month, he told Bloomberg in an interview. India and Pakistan were engaged in a four-day conflict this month, their worst standoff since 1999, before a ceasefire was agreed on May 10. […]

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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned Saturday that China was “credibly preparing” to use military force to upend the balance of power in Asia, vowing the United States was “here to stay” in the Indo-Pacific region. The Pentagon chief made the remarks at an annual security forum in Singapore as the administration of US […]

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Pop icon Taylor Swift, who has been publicly feuding with record executives since 2019 over the rights to her early music, now owns her entire catalogue, she said on her website Friday. “All of the music I’ve ever made … now belongs … to me,” she wrote, after years of dispute over her first six […]

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Twenty-five people on Friday were set to appear before French investigating judges as part of several probes into a spate of kidnapping plots targeting cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, prosecutors said. This week authorities said they had foiled a new abduction attempt in the western city of Nantes, and detained more than 20 people over that attempt and […]

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