Trump calls for Chicago mayor, Illinois governor to be jailed for 'failing to protect' ICE
• Oct 8, 2025, 2:20 PM
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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for Chicago’s mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, to be jailed “for failing to protect Ice Officers”. The politicians oppose his decision to deploy National Guard troops to the streets of Democrat-leaning cities.
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Left fatherless by the Holocaust, Robert Badinter waged a lifelong fight for justice
• 7:30 AM
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Former justice minister Robert Badinter will be inducted into the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris – alongside the likes of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau – on October 9. After his life was indelibly marked by the deportation of his father during the Nazi
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What the EU's new biometric border rules mean for non-EU travellers
• 7:20 AM
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Non-EU citizens travelling to and from the Schengen area will now have to pass through a new biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), which starts operations from Sunday. The new system removes the requirement to manually stamp passports and instead creates di
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UN to slash global peacekeeping force by 25% amid US funding strains
• 3:57 AM
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The United Nations will cut a quarter of its global peacekeeping force in coming months due to US funding reductions, a senior UN official said Wednesday. Thousands of troops will leave missions worldwide as Washington aligns its contributions with Presi
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Prisoner-hostage swap, aid surge: What we know about the new Gaza deal
• 2:09 AM
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The first phase of the Gaza peace plan, which is set to be signed Thursday in Egypt, entails the release of 20 living Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity while Israel will release nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, most of whom were detained at the st
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Argentina's Congress curbs Milei’s decree powers in major blow to libertarian leader
• 1:43 AM
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Argentina’s Congress voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to curb President Javier Milei’s power to rule by decree, marking another setback for the right-wing libertarian. Milei, whose party holds a minority in parliament, has issued more than 70 decrees si
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How Donald Trump engineered the Gaza deal
• 1:11 AM
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Seeking an unlikely Nobel Peace Prize and keen to bolster his legacy, President Donald Trump shifted from giving Israel a "blank check" to putting on the thumbscrews. At a White House unveiling of a 20-point peace plan with Prime Minister Benjamin Netany
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