France will summon the American ambassador Charles Kusher in protest of the Trump administration’s comments on the death of a far-right activist, the secretary of state said on Sunday. Jean-Noel Barrot was responding to a statement from the U.S. State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, which said that “reports, confirmed by the French Interior Minister, that Quentin […]
Major US airlines have expressed concerns about travel disruptions after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) decided to temporarily suspend its PreCheck and Global Entry programs due to an ongoing government shutdown.The suspension will take effect from 6am (11am GMT) on Sunday, days after a partial shutdown began after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach […]
When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared that the rules-based international order “no longer exists,” he joined a growing chorus of world leaders issuing similar warnings. In his opening speech at the Munich Security Conference last weekend, Merz told other world leaders that “our freedom is not guaranteed” and that the world had returned to an […]
In short Burke said his department had received advice from ASIO that the group met the legal threshold for a ban. Founded in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir is an Islamic political organization with branches around the world. The federal government has begun the process of banning the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir under new hate group laws, […]
Today is Sunday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2026. There are 312 days left in the year. Today in history: On February 22, 2022, three white men were convicted of federal hate crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, who was jogging through their neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia, when he was attacked in 2020. […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off the Namo Bharat train and Meerut Metro. YouTube/@NarendraModi via PTI. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (February 22, 2026) flagged off the Meerut Metro and Namo Bharat Train from Shatabdi Nagar station here, boosting inter-city high-speed and intra-city traffic. From there, the Prime Minister also took a metro ride […]
The first phase of passenger train services will start in 2026 (Image: Etihad Rail) A brand new passenger rail service will be launched later this year, reducing travel time between Dubai and Abu Dhabi to just 50 minutes. Depending on traffic, it currently takes about an hour and a half to travel between the two […]
By ADAM GELLER NEW YORK (AP) — Cities and towns along the East Coast quickly scrambled to prepare for an onslaught of heavy snow and damaging winds after forecasters issued blizzard warnings for communities from Maryland to Massachusetts. The National Weather Service warned that once the storm intensifies Sunday, it could prove significantly more severe […]
Screencap from YouTube video. Obama’s new presidential center will not only be ugly, but also be a huge financial burden on Chicagoans. They were told a bill of goods about how the center would bring tourism and revenue to the city, but not so much about costs. In that sense, it is a perfect monument […]
Australian officials do not want women and children allegedly linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group to return to the country, but the threshold has not yet been reached to ban them from receiving passports. About 34 women and children linked to Australians who had traveled to the Middle East to fight for the […]
