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Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “slave to war” in a speech to the Munich Security Conference Saturday, adding that Russia’s attacks had damaged every power plant in the country. “There is not a single power plant left in Ukraine that has not been damaged by Russian attacks,”...

5 European countries say Russia ‘poisoned’ Putin critic Navalny in prison with ‘rare toxin’ –

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny reportedly died in prison after being poisoned with a deadly toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs, according to claims from the UK and other allies. The “barbaric” act – using a neurotoxin that is classed as a chemical weapon – could only have been carried out by Vladimir Putin’s government,...

France’s largest rape trial, Gisèle Pelicot, the woman at the centre of France’s largest rape trial, has told BBC Newsnight she was “crushed by horror” on discovering that, for years, her husband had repeatedly drugged her unconscious and invited dozens of men to rape her.

“Something exploded inside me,” says Ms Pelicot, 73, of the moment she realised the scale of her husband’s crimes. “It was like a tsunami.” In an extensive interview ahead of the publication of her memoir, A Hymn To Life, she describes how phoning her three children with the news of what she had discovered about...

2 Pakistani nationals indicted in US for alleged role in $10m healthcare fraud –

WASHINGTON: Two Pakistani nationals were indicted in the United States for their alleged role in a $10 million healthcare fraud scheme that targeted Medicare and private insurance programmes, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Thursday. According to a statement by the DOJ, Burhan Mirza, 31, and Kashif Iqbal, 48, along with several co-schemers, were...

Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.

Canadians are with you’: Federal leaders attend vigil for victims of Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Vancouver News‘Canadians are with you’: Federal leaders attend vigil for victims of Tumbler Ridge mass shooting Published: February 13, 2026 at 5:24AM EST Playing 1 of 6CTV National News: B.C. RCMP say that shooter went to the school ‘hunting students’...

Mr Rubio hit out at a “dangerous delusion” that every country has followed the international rules-based order and freed trade since the end of the Cold War, and criticised the “overused” phrase “the end of history”-

The US Secretary of State added: “This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded human history, and it has cost us dearly.” Mr Rubio acknowledged that “we made these mistakes together, and now together, we owe it to our people to face...

US strike on drug boat in Caribbean kills 3

The US military said that three people were killed in a strike on an alleged boat trafficking boat in the Caribbean Sea. The US has carried out at least 38 such controversial operations since September.The United States military said on Friday that it had struck another vessel suspected of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean, killing...

US allows oil majors to resume Venezuela operations, broadly okays new energy investments.

The US eased sanctions on Venezuela’s energy sector on Friday, issuing two general licenses that allow global energy companies to resume oil and gas operations in the OPEC member and for other companies to negotiate contracts on investments in new energy operations The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a general license allowing...

U.S. military preparing for potentially weeks long Iran operations-