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[ad_1] European Union foreign policy head Josep Borrell on Monday appeared to call for reductions in U.S. military assistance to Israel. Borrell made his case by echoing President Biden’s charges that Jerusalem’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack was “over the top.”  “Well, if you believe that too many …

[ad_1] Hungary’s prime minister is grappling with a political crisis following the resignation of the country’s president, who faced backlash for pardoning a man convicted in a child sexual abuse case. Katalin Novák’s resignation was prompted after it was revealed that she pardoned a man convicted of concealing sexual abuse …

[ad_1] Burma’s military government on Saturday activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if called up, effective immediately. The announcement of the measure on state television amounts to a major, though tacit, admission …

[ad_1] Throngs of revelers took to the streets of Germany’s Carnival strongholds on Monday, accompanied by floats that satirized the Ukrainian and Russian presidents, German politicians, former U.S. President Donald Trump and many others. Shrove Monday parades are a traditional high point of Carnival celebrations in Cologne, Duesseldorf, Mainz and …

[ad_1] Mexican law enforcement agencies said Monday they seized over 20 tons of methamphetamine at the biggest drug lab found during the current administration. The Mexican navy said Monday that the lab was located in Quiriego, a township in a remote part of the northern border state of Sonora. It …

[ad_1] Iran-backed Houthi rebels targeted a commercial cargo ship Monday in the Red Sea whose final destination was an Iranian port, the U.S. military said.  The Houthis fired two missiles from Yemen toward the Bab al-Mandeb Strait sometime between 3:30 a.m. and 3:45 a.m.  The terrorist fighters targeted the MV …

[ad_1] Israel released a video late Monday showing the rescue of two hostages after Israeli forces stormed a heavily guarded apartment in the Gaza Strip.   The video, released on Israel’s official X account, shows Shayetet 13 troops in the first meeting with the rescued hostages before they were whisked …

[ad_1] There was not a lot of dialogue with the Israeli Defense Forces contacts before this embed happened. After four months of this war, they have the drill down to a system and the IDF had something they wanted to show the outside world.   We loaded up onto Humvees. A soldier …

[ad_1] About 10,000 children are still fighting alongside armed groups in Central African Republic more than a decade after civil war broke out, the government said Monday. Marthe Kirima, the minister for family and gender, said in a statement that children are still being recruited as fighters, spies, messengers, cooks …

[ad_1] Haiti’s renowned rum has become the newest victim of violent gangs vying to control a growing number of businesses and territory in the troubled Caribbean nation. At least 19.8 acres of sugarcane fields were torched in recent days as rival gangs fought near the Rhum Barbancourt distillery in the …