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UK posts record number of asylum requests
Over 108,000 people applied for asylum in Britain last year, government figures showed yesterday, the highest number for any 12-month period since records began in 2001.
The 108,138 applications are an 18 percent increase on 91,811…
Trump shares bizarre AI video of a rebuilt Gaza with Musk, Netanyahu
US President Donald Trump's official social media accounts posted an apparently AI-generated video depicting war-ravaged Gaza rebuilt into a seaside resort, replete with a towering golden statue of himself.
The video, which racked up…
Musk gives federal workers ‘another chance’ to justify jobs
Elon Musk said US federal workers had "another chance" to justify their work or lose their jobs, as the original deadline passed Tuesday with staff at multiple federal agencies told to disregard his request.
Musk, the world's richest…
Hundreds attend special mass in Pope Francis’s home city, Buenos Aires
Hundreds of Argentines attended a special mass Monday for their countryman Pope Francis, hospitalized in a critical condition with pneumonia in Rome.
They gathered on the same square in Buenos Aires where as archbishop, Jorge Bergoglio…
£2.8m gold toilet stolen from UK show never found: court
It took just five minutes to steal a £2.8-million gold toilet, which has never been found, from an art exhibition at an English country house, a court heard Monday.
The fully functioning 18-carat convenience, dubbed "America", was…
Arab leaders meet in Saudi to hash out Gaza plan
Arab leaders met in Riyadh on Friday to craft a plan for Gaza's post-war reconstruction to counter Donald Trump's proposal for the United States to take over the territory without its Palestinian residents.
Trump's plan has united Arab…
Hamas hands over the first 2 of 6 Israeli hostages
Hamas freed the first two of six Israeli hostages due to be released Saturday even as heightened tension between the adversaries clouded the future of the fragile ceasefire deal.
The two hostages — Tal Shoham, 40, and Avera Mengistu, 39…
Trump says US wants return on Ukraine aid money
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was trying to get money back for the billions of dollars sent to support Ukraine's war against Russia.
His comments came as Washington and Kyiv negotiate a mineral resources deal Trump wants…
AP sues White House officials over denial of access
The Associated Press filed a lawsuit against three White House officials on Friday after the news agency was barred from some of US President Donald Trump's events.
The AP, in the suit filed in a federal court in Washington, said the…
Gaza hostage-prisoner swap set to go ahead after row over bodies
The seventh hostage-prisoner exchange under a fragile Gaza ceasefire was set to go ahead on Saturday, despite an outpouring of grief and anger in Israel after Hamas returned the remains of two child hostages without their mother's.
Prime…