Overnight Clashes Strain Diplomacy Efforts for India and Pakistan
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Overnight Clashes Strain Diplomacy Efforts for India and Pakistan

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The situation between India and Pakistan remained volatile on Thursday, with reports of heavy overnight shelling and strikes on both sides clouding an international diplomatic push to contain the risk of all-out war. After a day of violence on Wednesday that opened with…

Merz and Germany’s New Government Face a Tricky Challenge: an AfD-Led Opposition
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Merz and Germany’s New Government Face a Tricky Challenge: an AfD-Led Opposition

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Ever since the German Parliament building reopened in Berlin in 1999, its second-largest meeting room has been occupied by what had often been Germany’s second-largest party, the Social Democrats. Even the room’s name, the Otto Wels Hall, bears the party’s imprint: Wels led…

4 Lessons for Trump From the UK’s Failed Rwanda Migrant Deportation Deal
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4 Lessons for Trump From the UK’s Failed Rwanda Migrant Deportation Deal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines On Sunday, Rwanda’s foreign minister said his country was in “early stage” talks with the Trump administration about a deal to take in migrants deported from the United States. That news had a familiar ring in Britain, where the former Conservative-led government agreed…

Friedrich Merz Has a Tough Job as Germany’s Chancellor. It Just Got Tougher.
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Friedrich Merz Has a Tough Job as Germany’s Chancellor. It Just Got Tougher.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Friedrich Merz’s party won Germany’s national election in late February. After weeks of coalition negotiations, Mr. Merz finally made it to the chancellor’s office late Tuesday afternoon, one failed parliamentary vote and several hours behind schedule. In the interim, nearly all of Mr….

Russia and Ukraine Trade Strikes Before Moscow’s Victory Day Parade
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Russia and Ukraine Trade Strikes Before Moscow’s Victory Day Parade

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Russia and Ukraine kept up dueling attacks on Wednesday, a day before a Russian-proposed three-day cease-fire was to take effect. A strike in Kyiv killed two people and wounded another eight, including four children. Russia had offered the truce beginning at midnight on…

China Cuts Interest Rates to Shore Up Economy Hit by Trade War
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China Cuts Interest Rates to Shore Up Economy Hit by Trade War

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines China’s central bank cut interest rates and made it easier on Wednesday for banks to increase lending and pump more money into the economy, in the most significant policy steps taken by Chinese officials to limit the impact of the trade war with…

The Only Female Minister in Syria’s New Government Wants to ‘Get Things Done’
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The Only Female Minister in Syria’s New Government Wants to ‘Get Things Done’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a white pantsuit, Hind Kabawat stood out a mile, the only woman in a lineup of 23 men in suits, all ministers of the interim Syrian government just sworn in, flanking the president. “I want more women and I did tell the…

Friedrich Merz Fails in First Round of Voting to Become Germany’s Next Leader
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Friedrich Merz Fails in First Round of Voting to Become Germany’s Next Leader

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats and its leader-in-waiting for the last 10 weeks, failed in his first parliamentary vote to become chancellor on Tuesday morning. The setback was likely temporary: Mr. Merz’s party, its sister party, the Christian Social Union,…

Friedrich Merz, Germany’s New Leader, Leaps Into a World of Crises
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Friedrich Merz, Germany’s New Leader, Leaps Into a World of Crises

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Two decades ago, before Friedrich Merz came back from the private sector to win the German chancellorship, he accepted an invitation to a gathering of the French Foreign Legion in Corsica. At the last moment, the organizers asked him to arrive on the…

What to Know About Germany’s New Government
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What to Know About Germany’s New Government

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Exactly six months after Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition imploded, Friedrich Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, will be sworn in as Germany’s next chancellor on Tuesday. The swearing-in comes after less than two months of negotiation between the Christian Democratic Union, or C.D.U., which…