Top-ranking officials in US President Donald Trump‘s administration were quick to criticize Germany’s domestic intelligence agency BfV on Friday for designating the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “right-wing extremist” entity.The agency said the party’s positions on ethnicity were incompatible with democracy, noting that the AfD “aims to exclude certain population groups from […]
The small town of Baruth is just over an hour’s train ride out of Berlin. Some 4,500 people live here and in the 12 surrounding villages that make up the municipality. Forests and a few fields dominate the landscape.Two years ago, energy drinks maker Red Bull and its partner Rauch took over operations from a […]
President Donald Trump (Photo: AP) WASHIBGTON: President Donald Trump spent his first 100 days issuing a blitz of executive orders to deliver rapidly on campaign pledges, drastically downsize the government and reshape America’s role on the global stage.But the job gets trickier now for the self-styled dealmaker-in-chief, who must corral fractious Republicans on Capitol Hill […]
Frederick Forsyth’s Avenger never enjoyed the cult reverence of The Day of the Jackal. But buried in its pages is a sprawling geopolitical thriller that predicted the unthinkable: the convergence of terror networks, state complicity, and cold American pragmatism. It ends on September 10, 2001 — the day before the world changed forever.But to understand […]
At a White House event marking the National Day of Prayer, President Donald Trump stood flanked by religious leaders of every stripe—Christian pastors, Jewish rabbis, Hindu swamis, Buddhist monks, and Muslim imams. But in typical Trump fashion, what began as a carefully choreographed moment of spiritual unity soon veered into campaign trail chaos, as he […]
Grand Slam Track: A new league that wants to save athletics (Credits: X/@MJGold) US sprinter Michael Johnson spent his career breaking records, but even at his peak he realized track and field was broken. Now, with his new venture Grand Slam Track, the 57-year-old is determined to fix it.Despite producing global superstars and spectacular performances, […]
Recent immigration arrests at courthouses around US have advocates worried (Photo: AP) Inside a Virginia courthouse, three immigration agents in plainclothes – one masked – detained a man who had just had misdemeanour assault charges dismissed. They declined to show identification or a warrant to the man, and one threatened to prosecute horrified witnesses who […]
Pierre Poilievre should have cruised to victory. The Conservative leader had momentum, money, and a national movement against Justin Trudeau’s Liberal legacy. But instead of winning big, he lost his own seat in Carleton. And the reason might be found not in policy or polling—but in a microphone.In a post-CNN, post-CBC world, where voters trust […]
There’s a saying in cop circles: “Control the scene, or the scene will control you.” But for Rebecca Sayegh — a nine-year veteran of the Toms River Police Department — the night of April 26 was anything but controlled. According to prosecutors, it was pure chaos.It was nearly midnight in the sleepy Bayville section of […]
Ábrego García, 29, came to the US from El Salvador illegally around 2011 President Donald Trump has pointed to four tattoos on Kilmar Abrego García’s knuckles — a marijuana leaf, a smiley face, a cross, and a skull — as definitive proof that the Maryland man is an MS-13 gang member who should not be […]
