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Turkey’s president said his government won’t hesitate to act against Kurdish-led groups in northern Syria if they proceed with plans to hold local elections. It accuses the groups of having links to outlawed Kurdish militants in Turkey. The SDF said drone strikes hit its positions eight times as well as civilian homes and vehicles in and near the northern city of Qamishli.

U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Friday, though the date of the speech has not been set. The letter inviting Netanyahu was signed by Johnson, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

South Africa's election this week may be former President Jacob Zuma, whose newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has exceeded expectations and emerged as a major factor in the African National Congress' sharp drop in support. MK is not going to win the election and is unlikely to be a coalition partner, analysts say, while Zuma is barred from standing for parliament because of a conviction for contempt of court. But the party, which advocates nationalising land and banks and scrapping the constitution, is on course to unseat the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, Zuma's home region.

It was the political trial of the young century, a salacious, high-stakes drama starring a former U.S. president vying to reclaim the White House. Manhattan prosecutors’ hush-money case against Donald Trump spanned more than a month and featured more than 20 witnesses.

A new report from a digital civil rights group has found that publicly available artificial intelligence tools can be easily weaponized to churn out convincing election lies in the voices of top American and European politicians

Imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has pleaded not guilty to 10 felony counts brought against him by the state

U.S. President Joe Biden approved Ukraine using U.S. weapons to strike targets inside Russia that were attacking the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, after Kyiv sought authorization from Washington in recent weeks, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on Friday. Speaking at a news conference in Prague after an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Blinken did not specifically say whether Biden's authorization could expand to include other Russian cities and targets that are deeper inside Russia. He said Washington's move, a marked change in policy by Biden, who had steadfastly refused to allow Ukraine to use American weaponry for strikes inside Russia, was a result of U.S. strategy of adjusting and adapting to the battleground. Now, he said, the U.S. is responding to what it has seen in and around the Kharkiv region.

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Punjab goes to polls on June 1, in the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections, wrapped in an air of unpredictability. With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) breaking the alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), now there are four big parties in fray. For a long time, Punjab had been a two-party state with the Congress and the SAD. The AAP's victory in the 2017 assembly polls changed that. In several seats, it's a five-cornered fight as Sikh radical candidates who support Khalistan, are also contesting. The chief among them is Amritpal Singh, the Sikh separatist who headed the 'Waris Punjab De' outfit, and is lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh jail under the National Security Act. However, the most influential among the separatists fighting elections is Simranjit SIngh Mann, the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), who had won in the 2019 elections from Sangrur, the home district of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of the AAP. Amritpal, the candidate in jail The entry of jailed radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh into the poll fray as an Independent candidate from the Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat has stirred the politics in this region, which borders Pakistan.

Michael Cohen once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. But on Thursday, Trump was on felony charges based largely on the onetime loyal fixer's testimony against his former boss. Over four days earlier this month, Cohen took the witness stand as the star prosecution witness in the first-ever criminal trial of a U.S. president, past or present. He testified that Trump directed him to pay off a porn star before the 2016 election, and then approved a plan to falsify business records to cover it up. The testimony in New York state court in Manhattan marked the culmination of a 15-year arc from a lawyer and fixer for the businessman-turned-politician to an outspoken antagonist.

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This much is clear for the financial markets: The US presidential election is likely to usher in a bumpy end to 2024.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pushing back against some NATO proposals that would allow Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike targets within Russia

Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly built a train system looping around the country’s southern Yucatan Peninsula

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, are rebounding before the opening bell after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial

Intel is preparing for rising demand for consumer products that can handle artificial-intelligence computing tasks on-site, betting that businesses will increasingly look beyond public data centers to meet their AI computing needs. The U.S.

Boxing Federation of India (BFI) on Friday parted ways with the suspended IBA and joined the breakaway World Boxing in a bid to counter the threat to the sport's Olympic future. The move comes months after the International Olympic Committee reiterated its threat to leave boxing out of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics if national federations continued to align themselves with the International Boxing Association (IBA). «It is absolutely vital to the sustainability of boxing that it retains its Olympics status, so we are delighted to join World Boxing,» BFI president Ajay Singh said in a press release.

PARIS — France is touting itself as the next artificial intelligence superpower.

President Joe Biden likes to call the United States “the indispensable nation.” By that he means that America is the only power simultaneously mighty and benevolent enough to preserve whatever is left of a liberal order — one in which rules and multilateral institutions govern, among other things, a system of relatively free international finance and trade. But what if the US itself, even under Biden, turns against the system it’s supposed to guard, becoming an agent of economic nationalism, international fragmentation and hostile bloc-building? Doubts to that effect have popped up throughout the Pax Americana, the long period of US leadership that followed World War II. What most frightened America’s friends abroad, though, was Donald Trump in the White House. His “America First” worldview was a throwback to a much earlier US stance of isolationism and nationalism.

convicted of a felony — let alone 34 of them – is the kind of blow that would normally tank any politician’s ambitions. Donald Trump will instead try to turn what might otherwise be a career-ending judgment into campaign fuel.

WestJet Encore and its pilots reached a deal Thursday after two weeks of negotiations, steering clear of a potential strike this week.