Viktor Orban hails AfD&s Alice Weidel as ally who can help ‘lift the boot from Brussels&

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban hailed the leader of Germany&s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as an ally who could help &lift the boot& of Brussels from Hungary&s chest, welcoming her less than two weeks before a German election.

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Lee Hockstader: Sense of national decline may make rhyme of history hard to ignore in German election

Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the &sick man of Europe,& just one-tenth of Germans describe themselves as confident, with more describing their mood as fearful, mistrustful, fatigued and sullen.

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Bangladesh committed serious human rights violations against protesters, UN says

Officials from Bangladesh&s former government and security apparatus systematically committed serious human rights violations against protesters last summer, the UN human rights chief said yesterday.

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‘I had my identity stolen for 35 years & and was sent to prison for trying to get it back&

It was soon after walking into a bank in downtown Los Angeles that William Woods&s life came crashing down.

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US staff left ‘abandoned and in danger& as Trump ends Congo aid programme

A lieutenant of Donald Trump ally Elon Musk, along with other outsiders, is overseeing the immediate termination of hundreds of American aid and foreign assistance programmes abroad this week.

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Donald Trump to begin talks with Putin and Zelensky to end Ukraine war ‘immediately&

Donald Trump said he and Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed by phone to begin negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine and will &work together, very closely&.

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