US Vice President JD Vance blasts Europe over free speech, lax migration

North Korean state media has accused the US of “slaughter and robbery” over President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to occupy the Gaza Strip and expel its population of more than two million Palestinians. “The world is now boiling like a porridge pot over the US’ bombshell declaration,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in…

The Philippines has said China’s deployment of its largest coastguard vessel inside Manila’s exclusive maritime economic zone (EEZ) is alarming and clearly intended to intimidate fishermen operating around a shoal in the contested waters of the South China Sea. Philippines National Security Council spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said on Tuesday that Manila has lodged a protest…

NewsFeed Trump pardons 1500 Jan 6 defendants, commutes other sentences US President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 1500 defendants who participated in the January 6th, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. He also commuted other sentences, including for Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and who was released from prison hours after…

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have tightened their grip on Goma, the biggest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), signalling a major blow to the Congolese army and a serious escalation in a years-long conflict that has seen hundreds of people killed and millions displaced. March 23 Movement (M23) fighters entered Goma on…

United States President Donald Trump has said he will “probably” meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this month while launching a broadside effectively accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of being to blame for Moscow’s invasion. Addressing reporters after US and Russian officials met for their first round of talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Trump dismissed…

Trump and Macron weigh prospect of European peacekeepers in Ukraine