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Germany Already Had a Plan B: Airbus and Eight Defense Firms Submit Fighter Jet Proposal as Berlin Weighs Post-FCAS Path

New Delhi, June 9 -- The ink on the Franco-German fighter jet program's death certificate was barely dry when Berlin's plan for what comes next began to surface. On Tuesday morning, German Defense Min... Read More


North Korea's Economy Is Booming, Powered by Russia and China

SEOUL, June 9 -- The economy that decades of Western sanctions were designed to strangle is, by the best measures anyone has, in the middle of its strongest run in more than a decade. North Korea has ... Read More


Bill Gates Faces House Oversight Wednesday as Epstein Probe Reaches Its Billionaire Phase

New Delhi, June 9 -- For eighteen years, Lesley Groff organized Jeffrey Epstein's calendar, drafted his correspondence, and booked what she later described to the FBI as routine appointments. On Tuesd... Read More


House Votes $70 Billion to Fund Trump's ICE Deportation Drive

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- Congress is preparing to hand the agencies that hunt and remove immigrants enough money to keep doing it until Donald Trump leaves office. The House of Representatives is set to ... Read More


DR Congo Sentences 54 to Death for 2017 Murder of UN Investigators

KANANGA, June 9 -- Nine years after two United Nations investigators were marched off a dirt road in central Congo and shot dead in a field, a military court has condemned 54 people to death for their... Read More


Sudanese Man Held Over Attempted Beheading in North Belfast as Protests Loom

New Delhi, June 9 -- The video was already on phones across Northern Ireland before the Police Service of Northern Ireland had finished processing the scene. It showed a man straddling a victim on the... Read More


US Races to Build Kenya Ebola Facility as Police Fire on Protesters

NANYUKI, June 9 -- The United States is building a place to hold its own sick citizens on Kenyan soil, and Kenyans are being shot for objecting to it. Washington is racing to finish an Ebola quarantin... Read More


Sudan War Crimes Complaint Filed in Kenya Tests Nairobi's Dual Role in RSF Conflict

NAIROBI, June 9 -- Twelve Sudanese survivors walked into Kenya's justice system on Tuesday carrying something the International Criminal Court cannot offer them: a chance to name the men who tortured ... Read More


US, UN and Arab League Back Civilian-Led Sudan Dialogue With Six-Month Deadline

The joint statement, June 9 -- The men who started Sudan's war were not in the room. That, more than any deadline or diplomatic formulation, is what separates this week's joint statement from nearly e... Read More


WHO Official in Bunia Admits Ebola Response Is Trailing the Outbreak as Cases Top 550 in DRC

BUNIA, June 9 -- The number on a whiteboard at the WHO field office in Bunia keeps climbing. As of Monday, it read 550. That is the confirmed case count in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone -... Read More