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Bomb attacks in Colombia injure six

Guerrilla fighters carried out four bomb attacks that wounded six people in northeast Colombia overnight, officials said Thursday, stoking concerns for a fragile peace process.

The police and military blamed the ELN group, with which the government called off peace talks last month, for the attacks in a restive region near Colombia's border with Venezuela.

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Unfair? Figures belie Trump's claims on EU trade balance

President Donald Trump repeatedly claims that U.S.-EU trade ties are unfair and that Europe is abusing the United States as justification for threatening tariffs.

But the figures paint a picture of a more balanced relationship than Trump describes, one that benefits both sides of the Atlantic.

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'He picked the wrong Latina': Trump border czar warned he's stumbled into brutal fight

President Donald Trump's "border Czar" Tom Homan, who has been tasked with deporting millions of undocumented migrants from the United States, made an enemy out of "the wrong Latina" when he went after Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), argued MSNBC columnist Julio Ricardo Varela.

Homan has repeatedly made a point of threatening AOC with a Justice Department investigation for hosting a webinar to teach undocumented migrants how to respond if they're confronted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The webinar is titled, "Know Your Rights," but Homan has suggested its purpose is to "impede law enforcement" from doing its job.

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'Sign the deal': Trump security adviser puts new pressure on Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. diplomat Gen. Keith Kellogg were meeting in Kyiv on Thursday to discuss ending the three-year-long war over Russia's territorial ambitions.

The meeting comes amid growing tensions between Zelensky and President Donald Trump, who traded verbal barbs Wednesday and after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Russian counterpart in Riyadh — without a Ukrainian representative present.

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Trump invites Canadian PM to U.S. governors' conference in new statehood taunt

President Donald Trump is making his battle of words with Canada fight out on the hockey rink.

Canadian backlash to Trump has been manifesting at hockey games after he threatened the nation with tariffs and claimed he wanted to make it America's 51st state. Canadian fans have been booing the U.S. national anthem before games in response.

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Danish FM says Europe must massively rearm

by Anders KONGSHAUG

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has told AFP that Europe must massively rearm in the face of "mixed signals" from the United States under Donald Trump.

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'Reckless' Elon Musk is 'undermining' Trump: legal analyst

Any hope that Donald Trump may have that the conservative majority Supreme Court will give a thumbs-up to his makeover of the federal government and grant him unlimited power is fading by the day.

That is according to former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori in his column for Politico where he claimed that, as much as Trump can be his own "worst enemy" when it comes to legal matters, Elon Musk is on a whole different level when it comes to creating chaos that has the potential to make a favorable ruling almost impossible.

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'The Kremlin seemed barely to believe its luck' with latest Trump rant: report

President Donald Trump's rant about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy being a "dictator" sent outraged shockwaves throughout European capitals this week, although one country found itself pleasantly surprised by the president's tirade.

Politico reports that "the Kremlin seemed barely to believe its luck" when Trump raged against Ukraine while his administration was negotiating directly with Russian officials as Ukraine watched from the sidelines.

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Could 'terrorist' designation lead to U.S. strikes on drug cartels?

U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to designate eight Latin American drug trafficking groups as "terrorist" organizations has raised speculation about possible military action on foreign soil.

What are the ramifications of the order targeting six Mexican drug cartels, Venezuela's Tren de Aragua and Mara Salvatrucha, the street gang with close links to Central America?

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Egypt unveils first ancient royal tomb since Tutankhamun

Egypt's antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be located since the famed discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.

The tomb, discovered near the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in southern Egypt, belonged to King Thutmose II of the 18th dynasty, who lived nearly 3,500 years ago.

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Disbelief and anger: Ukrainians react to Trump's 'absurdity'

by Andrii KALCHENKO

Three years into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian soldier Ivan Banias has found himself struggling to digest the "absurdity" of what US President Donald Trump is saying about the war, his country and his president.

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Delta offers $30,000 each to Toronto plane crash passengers

US airline Delta will offer $30,000 to each passenger on a plane that crashed as it landed at Toronto airport this week, the carrier told AFP on Wednesday.

"This gesture has no strings attached and does not affect rights" of passengers, a company spokesman said.

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Cambodian farmers risk lives for rice as U.S. freezes demining aid

by Suy SE

Eleven-year-old Yeat Saly lies in a hospital bed, a piece of shrapnel lodged in his forehead -- one of the many injuries inflicted by an old mortar he found near his village in Cambodia.

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