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Prosecutors in Cuba on Tuesday charged six Cuban nationals with "crimes of terrorism" and accused them of entering Cuba with a US-flagged boat packed with weapons to stir unrest in the country. Their boat was intercepted by Cuba's coast guard as it entered Cuban waters last week, resulting in a shootout. Four of the Cuban nationals

Britain has announced that will stop issuing student visas to people from Afghanistan, ​Cameroon, Myanmarand Sudan. It will also suspend skilled work visas ​to people from Afghanistan, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The Home Office said the move was an attempt to clamp down on asylum seekers who enter Britain through legal routes. "An 'emergency

The father of a boy charged with shooting dead four people at a high school in the US state of Georgia was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday. Jurors took less than two hours to convict Colin G., 55, over the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta.

Emmanuel Macron arrived to the highly-secretive nuclear submarine base where he would give his speech in a manner perfectly choreographed for the weighty remarks he was about to deliver: accompanied by a squadron of nuclear-capable Rafale jets. "To be free one must be feared," Macron said, "and to be feared one must be powerful." France's president has

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Pakistan said its military posts along the border came under attack by Afghan Taliban forces on Tuesday, sparking renewed clashes that killed 67 Afghan troops and one Pakistani soldier. Afghanistan rejected that account as "baseless." The Taliban government in Kabul instead said its forces had successfully repelled attacks from Pakistan and killed four Pakistani soldiers.  Fighting

At the beginning of the current war with Iran, US President Donald Trump was clear about the goals: Tehran should no longer pose a nuclear or conventional military threat, and the weakened mullah regime should be removed from power. Since then, Trump and other top US officials have mentioned different reasons for the US and Israeli airstrikes on

The airstrike on the Tehran residence of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — one of the opening salvos of the current US-Israeli war with Iran — killed the 86-year-old supreme leader together with large parts of the Iranian command structure. Iran has yet to decide on the next leader. Currently, however, the power vacuum appears to be filled by Iran's

Germany's customs agency on Tuesday revealed that a sizable seizure of the drug ketamine was made at Cologne/Bonn Airport when an otherwise innocent-looking decoy object drew suspicion. Some 25 kilograms (about 55 pounds) of the widely misused anesthetic was found squirreled away inside five bushy-bearded garden gnomes that had been painted gold. How was the ketamine shipment found? The haul

Liza Adhikari, a 20-year-old student, carries the wounds of the "revolution" in her left shoulder.   Every day, she goes to physiotherapy to regain movement after a bullet shattered the top of the bone in her upper arm. She was shot on September 8, 2025 — the day when Nepal's Gen Z movement faced a deadly crackdown