GERMAN PARLIAMENT DEBATES POTENTIAL BAN ON FAR-RIGHT AFD

Fri 31 January 2025: German lawmakers debated the possibility of banning the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party during a heated session Thursday, as concerns mounted over the party’s anti-democratic activities. Social Democrat lawmaker Johannes Fechner warned that right-wing extremists pose a serious threat to democracy and voiced his support for a motion to initiate proceedings to ban […]

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UK TO KEEP BAN ON ASYLUM SEEKERS CLAIMING MODERN SLAVERY PROTECTIONS

Thu 30 January 2025: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws, even as its ministers have previously criticised those measures, Reuters has reported. Starmer is under pressure to deal with tens of thousands of people who arrive in […]

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PLANE COLLIDES WITH MILITARY HELICOPTER IN MID-AIR NEAR US CAPITAL

Thu 30 January 2025:   A regional plane collided in midair with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night, according to authorities. “A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport […]

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MEXICAN PRESIDENT SHEINBAUM TO SEEK EXPLANATION FROM GOOGLE OVER GULF OF MEXICO NAME CHANGE

Thu 30 January 2025: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that her administration will send a letter to US tech giant Google to address President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” The executive order was among the first signed by Trump the day after he was […]

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CYBERATTACKS TARGETING DEEPSEEK ORIGINATED IN US, CLAIMS CHINA’S STATE MEDIA

Thu 30 January 2025: Major and sustained cyberattacks on the Chinese AI model DeepSeek originated in the US, Chinese media reported on Thursday. The cyberattack on DeepSeek began on Jan. 3 and peaked on Monday and Tuesday with a massive brute-force attack from US IP addresses, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday, citing […]

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TRUMP ORDERS CURBS ON GENDER TRANSITIONS FOR MINORS

Wed 29 January 2025: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to restrict gender transition procedures for people under the age of 19, in his latest move targeting transgender people since returning to office. The order comes the week after Trump said in his inauguration speech that his government would only recognize two genders, male […]

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TRUMP AGAIN THREATENS CHINA, INDIA, BRAZIL WITH HIGH TARIFFS

Tue 28 January 2025: President Donald Trump on Monday threatened China, India, and Brazil with high tariffs once again, calling them countries “that really mean harm” to the US. “We’re going to put tariffs on outside countries and outside people that really mean harm to us,” Trump said at the House Republicans conference dinner in […]

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