Donald Trump has named oil and gas industry executive Chris Wright as his pick to lead the US Energy Department. He is expected to fulfil the president-elect’s promise to increase fossil fuel production – an aim summed by the campaign […]
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Donald Trump has announced that he will tap Karoline Leavitt, his campaign spokeswoman, to serve as White House press secretary in his next administration. At 27, Leavitt will be the youngest White House press secretary in US history. The president-elect
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Germany’s governing coalition is in crisis after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired a key minister and said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year. Scholz said he had no confidence in Finance Minister Christian Lindner,
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Only one doctor remains at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital following a days-long Israeli raid, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry has said. In a video statement, Dr Khalil Daqran urged international organisations to send medical staff to the hospital
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has given a measured response to Israeli strikes on the country, saying the attack should not be “exaggerated or downplayed” while refraining from pledging immediate retaliation. President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would “give an appropriate
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Israeli strikes on Iran, in retaliation for Iran’s missile attacks earlier this month, have killed four Iranian soldiers, Iran’s army said. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it targeted missile factories and other sites near Tehran and western Iran early
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A former East German secret police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for murdering a Polish man attempting to flee to West Berlin 50 years ago. Martin Naumann, now 80, shot Czeslaw Kukuczka in the back at
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Getty Images Michelle Obama (l) wore a striking scarlet Alexander McQueen dress while meeting former Chinese President Hu Jintao Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Lady Victoria accepted donations of clothing so they could “look their best” to represent the
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Prisoners have taken hostages in a remote prison colony in Russia’s southwestern Volgograd region, authorities say. Federal prison authorities said “there are casualties” as a result of the hostage-taking in the IK-19 Surovikino facility, about 120 km (74.5 miles) west
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