Category: Politics
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The US president says he does not believe Russia intends to attack NATO territory, and is sending Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow with a proposal to end the war, then to Kyiv. An assessment of intent is the hardest kind of claim to check.
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The AfD is polling at 41 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt ahead of Sunday’s vote. But the number that decides the seat count is how many small parties clear five per cent — which is why campaigners are urging tactical votes for parties they don’t support.
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India’s Supreme Court wiped out the police cases against students who protested over the NEET-UG exam, using a constitutional power with no real equivalent elsewhere — then said the order must not be treated as a precedent.
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Berlin has formally blamed Russia for the explosive drone found at Leipzig/Halle Airport in August, closed a consulate and raised the threat level. Europe has watched drones for two years without naming anyone. Saying it out loud is the change.
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A Postal Service whistleblower warns mail-in voting rules could fail badly in November. The claim is about delivery times against statutory deadlines, not fraud — and unlike most election arguments, it can be checked before the vote rather than after.
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Xi Jinping’s first visit to Egypt in ten years came while Washington is six months into a war with Iran. The handshake is easy to over-read — here is what would actually have to happen for it to matter.
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Protests against automated licence plate readers more than doubled the previous monthly record in August. A dozen American cities have cancelled contracts, the objections cross party lines, and almost none of it has been reported nationally.
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House prosecutors called Sara Duterte’s own defence spokesman as their witness, and the impeachment court immediately declared him hostile. He was her chief of staff at the education department when the 112.5 million pesos moved.
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Indiana has 82,000 fewer people on food assistance than it did last October. Asked how many were removed for ineligibility and how many for paperwork, the state agency said it could not say — which is the part worth reporting.
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The House voted 370-48 to fund the government through 11 December, a month before it had to. The Appropriations chairman said out loud what the timing was for: getting Congress past the November elections.