India and Pakistan will meet for the third time in the Asia Cup 2025, India won both previous encounters, but Salman Agha’s team appeared stronger as the tournament progressed. While India remains the favourites, Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar has shared a strategy with his teammates for the final.
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Sunday’s general election will be the most crucial since Moldova gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Moscow is doing all it can to divert the country from its European course.If a flood of videos on TikTok is to be believed, the people of Moldova are currently living through a reign of terror. These short videos claim that the country is being governed by a “dictatorship” of its pro-European President, Maia Sandu, and the ruling liberal-conservative Action and Solidarity Party (PAS). They also allege that this “puppet regime” has sold itself to the EU, NATO and US billionaire George Soros with a view to destroying Moldova’s agriculture, “introducing LGBTQ ideology” and leading the country into a war against the Russian Federation. Former president’s TikTok campaign One of the people who posts such things on TikTok almost daily is the former President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, a devoted follower of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Dodon is leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Mold
President Volodymyr Zelensky and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met to discuss the current state of the peace process and Ukraine’s path toward European Union membership. The statement was published on the official website of the President of Ukraine, as reported by Ukrinform.
Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Tammun on Thursday, the military said, accusing the men of preparing an attack. In a joint operation, special forces from the border police, the army and the Shin Bet security agency “eliminated a terrorist cell that was planning to carry out an imminent terrorist attack”, the military said in a statement, AFP reported. The military said the two Palestinians were suspected of planning to carry out “shooting and explosive attacks” from the village, and were affiliated to Islamic Jihad, a Hamas ally. It added that Israeli forces shot and killed the two men after encircling the building in which they had sought refuge. Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. The Palestinian health ministry in the territory said it had been notified of the men’s deaths and identified them as Mohammed Suleiman, 29, and Alaa Joudat, 20. It said Israeli forces still had Suleiman and Joudat’s bodies. Tammun mayor Sameer Bisharat told AFP the two men
Two brothers from Texas have been arrested after a Minnesota family was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to transfer $8 million in cryptocurrency. Authorities said the ordeal lasted nine hours before law enforcement intervened and the suspects fled the state. Kidnappers hold the family at gunpoint Prosecutors identified the men as Raymond Christian Garcia, 23, […]
The European Commission started a formal investigation Thursday into SAP, the German software giant, over how it runs its customer support operations. Brussels regulators said they want to check if SAP has been playing unfair when it comes to helping customers who use its business management software installed on company computers. The probe will look […]
Google has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop a lower court order that forces it to change the way its app store works.The request was filed on Wednesday and sent to Justice Elena Kagan. According to the New York Times, the company wants the ruling paused while it appeals, warning that if the changes […]
US President Donald Trump said an Israeli annexation of the West Bank is “not going to happen.” It comes as several Israeli ministers have pushed for the idea. DW has more.US President Donald Trump has told journalists in the Oval Office that an Israeli annexation of the West Bank will not happen. Far-right Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, along with other Israeli officials, have pushed for an Israeli annexation of the West Bank in response to several Western countries recognizing Palestinian statehood. Israel has been occupying the West Bank since 1967 and is building settlements there which are deemed illegal under international law. Here’s the latest regarding Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and the wider Middle East on Friday, September 26: ‘I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,’ Trump says US President Donald Trump said he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding “Its not go
More than 2,000 nuclear weapons have been tested worldwide to date. The test sites remain contaminated, and many residents are ill. Here is one example from the South Pacific.”For 30 years, we were France’s guinea pigs,” says Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, a young member of parliament from French Polynesia. This South Pacific archipelago — a French overseas territory that includes Tahiti and is famed for its white beaches, swaying palms, and turquoise waters — is often romanticized as a paradise. But beneath the idyllic image lies a painful legacy: decades of nuclear testing and its enduring consequences. Between 1966 and 1996, the French military detonated 193 nuclear bombs on the remote atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa. These tests were carried out in Ma’ohi Nui, as the territory is known to its indigenous inhabitants. The first explosion, codenamed ‘Aldébaran,’ took place on July 2, 1966 — marking the beginning of a long chapter that would leave deep scars on the land and its people. In 2025, Morgant-Cross jour
An escalator incident involving United States President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump as they headed into the United Nations General Assembly Hall on the opening day of the 80th high-level session, Sept. 23, has incited claims on social media of sabotage. However, a PassBlue review of the incident suggests it was most likely an … Read more