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Tucker Carlson has been acting as a secret back-channel messenger between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, according to the Russian president's acolytes.

The former Fox News host returned to Moscow this week for a second time to interview Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and pushed the Kremlin narrative that the U.S. should stay out of the war in Ukraine to avoid setting off a global nuclear crisis, but some Kremlin insiders believe Carlson had other business, reported The Daily Beast.

NBC News reported Friday that U.S. federal judges unanimously upheld the mandate that an American citizen own TikTok if it intends to operate in the United States.

There have been ongoing concerns about the safety and security of the app, and the D.C. Circuit agreed, citing national security threats and taking data from users without consent.

A former British soldier on Friday pleaded not guilty to murdering two men during the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, one of the most significant events in Northern Ireland's decades-long conflict.

The ex-paratrooper, identified only as "Soldier F", applied to have the case against him dismissed, but a judge at Belfast Crown Court on Friday dismissed his claim.

The man who killed South African anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani, who was released from prison on parole in 2022, is being deported to Poland, the government announced Friday.

Janusz Walus, 71, a Polish immigrant with links to the Afrikaner far right, was convicted for the 1993 murder of Hani, a leader in the freedom-fighting African National Congress, during tense talks to end white rule and hold the first democratic elections.

by Sonia AVALOS

Alicia Ceresoli yearns for the smell of new leather shoes and her mouth waters when she imagines sinking her teeth into a succulent steak, two indulgences the 80-year-old Argentine can no longer afford.

by Stuart Williams

President Emmanuel Macron on Friday was holding talks with French political leaders on the left and right as he seeks to name a new prime minister and find a way out of France's political crisis.

by Karine PERRET and Adam PLOWRIGHT

Notre Dame's famed 8,000-pipe organ, known as the voice and soul of the beloved cathedral, will be "revived" after a five-year absence in one of the highlights of this weekend's reopening ceremony at the landmark.

Mask-wearing arsonists set a synagogue ablaze in a pre-dawn attack Friday in the Australian city of Melbourne, police said, sparking widespread condemnation.

The fire broke out at 4:10 am (1710 GMT Thursday) in the Adass Israel Synagogue when some congregants were already inside, police said, gutting much of the building in the southeast Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea.

There are few accolades missing from Beatles songwriter Paul McCartney's stellar career, and now he is to be recognized with a collection of £5 ($6.35) coins, the UK's Royal Mint said Friday.

The 82-year-old composer of timeless hits such as "Yesterday", "Let it Be" and "Hey Jude" helped design the coin, and said being the star of the collection was "a huge honor".

Key figures in South Korea's failed martial law bid share one key connection: they are all graduates of a prestigious, all-boys school in Seoul.

The coincidence has sparked wild online speculation and even forced the school -- a respectable but not academically famous, fee-paying establishment -- to issue a public rebuke of its infamous alumnus.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who was chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be his director of national intelligence, has drawn criticism for purported peddling of Russian talking points about the war in Ukraine.

Now some former Gabbard aides have told ABC News that they don't believe that Gabbard is a Russian intelligence asset -- rather, they believe that she has come to advocate for Russia through her regular consumption of Russian propaganda, primarily through the state-controlled media outlet Russia Today.

"Positive" talks between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles have rekindled hope that the ancient friezes could be on their way back to Athens after more than two centuries.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Downing Street on Tuesday just as the British Museum confirmed it had been holding "constructive" negotiations with Athens.

Donald Trump's incoming administration intends to deport migrants to countries they've never visited if their home countries refuse to accept them, according to a new report.

Three sources familiar with the plans say administration officials are preparing a list of countries – including but not limited to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada – where they would send undocumented migrants as part of planned mass deportations, although it's not clear they would be allowed to legally work or live in those nations, reported NBC News.