Twitter better for ‘freedom of speech’, says Afghan Taliban official

Russia on Tuesday said West’s supply of new weapons to Ukraine “only aggravates its fate.”

NATO leaders are gathering for a two-day summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

Italy, Croatia and Slovenia signed a joint declaration on Monday aimed at combating irregular migration.

Turkey agrees to advance Sweden’s NATO bid, official says

Erdogan links Sweden’s NATO bid with Turkey’s EU membership

Heat killed 61,000 in Europe’s record-breaking 2022 summer: study

Rolling out the big guns: NATO’s aid to Ukraine

Kremlin says Putin Wagner Group head met in Moscow in wake of ‘rebellion’

Police arrest attack suspect in Hengshan town of Lianjiang city in southern Guangdong province.

Attack follows Israeli military raid in Jenin, in which 12 Palestinians were killed

A ‘well known’ BBC presenter ‘paid’ teenager for sexually explicit photos

Hundreds of German police have used batons and pepper spray to quell crowds targeting an Eritrean cultural festival.

Ukrainian president thanks Türkiye for supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity during talks in Istanbul.

30 newly identified victims to be laid to rest on 28th anniversary of genocide in memorial cemetery in Potocari

Several media outlets report that Marquez died in hospital in Caracas

72 US organizations urge Biden to take ‘immediate action’ against Israeli violence

US releases video of Russian jets’ ‘unprofessional’ actions against American drones in Syria

Israeli attacks on the West Bank city of Jenin have so far killed 12 Palestinians.

Russia sees no grounds for extending last year’s Black Sea Grain Initiative deal.

Dozens of police and gendarmes injured overnight, says Interior Ministry French police arrested as many as 1,311 people across the country as violent demonstrations over the police killing of a North African teenager continued for a fourth night, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday. About 45,000 police officers backed by riot vehicles were deployed to quell the protests, which included setting fire to dumpsters, cars and damaging buildings. Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old youth of North African descent, was shot at point-blank range by a police officer on Tuesday in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. France’s police institutions have a well-documented history of systematic racism, many minorities routinely complain about heavy-handed police tactics, discrimination, and racism. The officer faces a formal investigation for voluntary homicide and has been placed in preliminary detention. The UN has also expressed concern about the fatal police shooting, urging France to address “deep issues of racism and discrimination” in its law enforcement agencies.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander asked for forgiveness and apologized for his country’s role in the slave trade in a speech on Saturday. “Today I’m standing here in front of you as your king and as part of the government. Today I am apologizing myself,” Willem-Alexander said at an official event marking 150 years since the end of slavery in Dutch colonies. One former lawmaker claimed to a Dutch broadcaster that he started crying as the king apologized. Willem-Alexander also said he has authorised a study into the role of the royal family in slavery in the Netherlands as a study published last month showed that the royal family had earned the modern-day equivalent of 545 million euros just from the slave trade alone. Dutch PM Rutte did not offer compensation to descendants of enslaved people when he apologized last year in December for the Dutch’s role in slavery. Before the king’s speech on Saturday, Black Manifesto and The Black Archives groups marched under the banner reading “No healing without reparations.” Speaking to a US wire service, Black Archives director Mitchell Esajas said, “An apology should be tied to a form of repair and reparatory justice or reparations.” The harrowing colonial history of the Netherlands has been under renewed scrutiny following the aftermath of the race riots in the US. The Dutch’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade began in the late 1500s but it took them last than a hundred years to be a major global slave trader.

Billions of Muslims worldwide joined together to celebrate the first day of the religious holiday, Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice.