"I think I could do anything I want with it": That's what Donald Trump said about Cuba mid-March. Yet he is hardly the first US president with such expansionist desires, notes historian Michael Zeuske, a professor at the Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn.
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Seven goals, 14 substitutions, no cards — there were storylines aplenty in Germany's 4-3 friendly win over Switzerland in Basel on Friday night as preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup approach their final stage.
On Thursday evening, the Iranian capital Tehran came under a fierce wave of attacks. Residents reported low-flying fighter jets over the city and massive explosions.
For more than 100,000 women in Syria, it is not only emotionally but also legally impossible to put the war behind them. According to the United Nations and Syrian human rights groups, up to 150,000–170,000 people, mostly men, remain missing.
Last week, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu visited the United Kingdom, which has agreed to help refurbish Nigeria's major trading ports. These include the Apapa Quays, built a century ago when the West African country was still a British colony, and the Tin Can Island port, both near Lagos.
During a massive attack on Ukraine on the night of March 23 to 24, Russia launched nearly 1,000 drones and 34 missiles. According to the US-based Institute for the Study of War, it was "the largest Russian strike series against Ukraine of the war thus far."
Former Red Army Faction member Daniela Klette is facing new charges, with Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office accusing her of multiple serious crimes linked to past attacks. The charges predate a series of robberies between 1999 and 2016, allegedly carried out to finance decades of life underground, for which Kette has already been indicted.
A woman speaks on the phone as emergency workers sift through rubble of a residential building that was hit in an airstrike in the early hours of March 27, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
Police detain Nerdeen Kiswani, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstration group "Within Our Lifetime" during a protest on Friday, April 12, 2024, in New York.
Since the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran in late February, their military forces have killed government officials and more than 1,000 civilians. In early January, US special forces kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and civilians were also killed in that assault.
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