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South Africa's ambassador to France, formerly a long-serving cabinet minister, was found dead on Tuesday outside a Paris hotel after the window of his room in the high rise building was forced open, prosecutors said. Nkosinathi Emmanuel Nathi Mthethwa, 58, usually known as Nathi Mthethwa, had "reserved a room on the 22nd floor whose secured window had been forced open," the office of the Paris prosecutor told AFP.

As Israeli representatives sat beside the Irish delegation in the vast hall of the UN General Assembly yesterday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told leaders that Ireland would prevent members of the Israeli government from entering Ireland.

But Trump delivered a long and humiliating rant, filled with personal grievances and attacks on the UN, European leaders, migration policies and clean energy. Trump set a low bar with his often rambling and incoherent campaign speeches, but it was still an embarrassing performance for the US president on the global stage. In his past appearances before the general assembly, Trump generally stuck to his prepared remarks and did not hector US allies sitting in the audience. But this was Trump unfiltered and unleashed as

It is seen on village greens and in Test arenas alike. It is there at the start of the game, just after the coin toss, and it is there at the end when the final run is struck or wicket falls. According to research from the University of Dundee it should last between one-and-a-half and three seconds, just long enough to reassure both participants, but not so long as to feel overbearing.

During his nearly hour-long speech, he framed immigration and "green renewable energy" as destroyers of much of the free world. Speaking on foreign policy, he called for an end to the war in Ukraine - a campaign pledge he said he thought would be easy because of his relationship with Putin - and a ceasefire in Gaza. Trump also warned of the dangers of Iran possessing a nuclear weapon.

U.S. pressure on Venezuela is beginning to take its toll on the Miraflores Palace, the Venezuelan presidential residence. We have never experienced anything like this. There is a lot of confusion, says someone close to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The atmosphere has grown tense. Warnings are coming from every direction. Late Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the sinking of a new vessel that had departed from the Venezuelan coast

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday said that the US immigration raid on a Hyundai factory was "bewildering" and could have adverse effects on future South Korean investments in the US. The raid was the largest single-site anti-immigration operation conducted since US President Donald Trump cracked down on immigration, a top political priority since he returned to office in January.

I am pleased to announce that India, and the United States of America, are continuing negotiations to address the Trade Barriers between our two Nations,

So they'll never admit that. The White House is never going to say that. But yes, we are well past the two weeks from that Alaska Summit, and there has not been any movement toward a bilat between Zelenskyy and Putin, let alone a trilat. Now, President Trump is supposed to go to Europe in the next two weeks and there is some hope by some advisers to the president President Trump that there could be some activity before that or maybe right after that.

The rift stemmed from former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations that Indian agents were involved in the assassination of Sikh leader and activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar was shot dead by two masked assailants as he left a Sikh temple in the Canadian province of British Columbia in 2023Image: Darryl Dyck/ZUMA Press/IMAGO According to media reports, Nijjar was a prominent organizer in the Sikh community in Canada.

We are so delighted to be able to share that Gena, and all those taken with her, have been released following their kidnapping on 3 August, 2025, from the St Helene property in Kenscoff, Haiti.

American and European officials thought they had a real opportunity to end the war in Ukraine. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, flew to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin believing that a breakthrough was possible. Trump welcomed the Russian president to America, rolling out a literal red carpet. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rushed to Washington with European leaders, some of whom even sounded optimistic. Trump "broke the deadlock" with Putin, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said at the White House. "If we play this well, we could end this."

The intensely close but complex relationship between Britain and Ireland is one that a British ambassador to Ireland observed in a 1977 dispatch: the British "take the Irish for granted, whereas (the Irish) are obsessed with us. We don't remember the past and they cannot forget it." If we think a lot about that relationship, one might think that there would be no need for a book like Philip Stephens's These Divided Isles. Too often we don't think deeply about our relationship with Britain.

Finnish president Alexander Stubb has been speaking at a press conference before the country's ambassadors' conference in Helsinki. In comments reported by the Finnish public broadcaster, Yle, he said that he hoped Trump's patience with Putin would run out soon. He insisted that Finland and other European countries will do everything we can do achieve lasting peace. He also hinted that the only way to force Putin to end the invasion of Ukraine would be by hitting his allies,

I'm going to make a decision as to what we do and it's going to be a very important decision, and that's whether or not it's massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both, or we do nothing and say it's your fight, Trump said, showing apparent frustration at Moscow a week after his meeting with Putin in Alaska.

He pays him lip service, right? He tells Trump what he wants to hear about mail-in voting, Todd said. The former Meet the Press anchor added that what the president really wants is for Putin to admit he would have never invaded Ukraine with Trump in office, a win that Todd noted Putin never fully gave Trump. That is total disrespect by Putin, right? It totally should undermine the idea that Putin wouldn't have launched this invasion of Ukraine had Trump been president, Todd said.

"I express my deepest sympathy to those injured in the Russian missile attack on Munkachevo, and I wish them a speedy and full recovery," Sulyok said in his original statement posted to Facebook on August 21. The post was taken down shortly after it went up, only to be replaced by a nearly identical statement with the word "Russian" ("orosz" in Hungarian) removed from the first sentence.