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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would lift sanctions on Turkiye and make a decision on a potential sale of F-35 stealth jets to Ankara, as Nato leaders unveiled arms deals worth tens of billions of dollars to drive home the message that they are heeding US calls…

French soccer star Kylian Mbappe has condemned a Paraguayan senator over racist comments directed at him following France’s World Cup victory over Paraguay, as the French Football Federation filed a complaint seeking a hate crime investigation. The controversy began after France defeated Paraguay 1-0 on July 4 in Philadelphia, with…

Ankara, Turkey  —  As President Donald Trump was raging during a White House meeting this spring that fellow members of the NATO alliance had refused to join his military operation in Iran, he had a thought. What if he cut American forces in Europe by a third, he asked, according…

AFP - news@thelocal.it Published: 6 Jul, 2026 CET. Updated: Mon 6 Jul 2026 15:04 CET Relations between Trump and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni have soured in recent months. Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP. Italian ministers on Monday criticised US President Donald Trump's latest social media attack on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump got what he wanted from NATO at last year’s summit: an alliance whose members had largely acceded to his demands to step up their defense spending. The speed with which most NATO countries have tried to heed Trump’s call to spend 5% of their…

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Kyiv and Moscow's troops were still battling for the key eastern town of Kostyantynivka, which the Kremlin has claimed it has captured. Moscow earlier this week announced it had taken the outpost -- on the way to important hubs in the Donetsk region --…

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of this week's NATO summit in Ankara, the White House announced on July 5, as Washington seeks to revive stalled diplomacy over Russia's war while pressing Europe to take greater responsibility for the continent's defense.…

July 04, 2026 10:00 AM ET Members of Congress are pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment and elect senators the way the Constitution originally decreed. Nine GOP House lawmakers have co-signed a joint resolution introduced by Republican Texas Rep. Keith Self to repeal the amendment that mandates that U.S. senators…

Lahore: A Pakistani senator, with close links to the country's military establishment, on Saturday demanded the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar after a relative of his was arrested in a case concerning the abduction and gangrape of two foreigners here. Senator Faisal Vawda also accused the federal government…

The Federal High Court in Abuja has affirmed Senator David Mark as the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congres(ADC), dismissing a lawsuit challenging the party’s current leadership. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Musa Liman ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case, holding that the matter concerned…