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US President Donald Trump has described an embezzlement case against Marine Le Pen as a “witch hunt”.It comes as the French far-right leader called for protests this weekend over her conviction. Ms Le Pen was handed a five-year ban on running for office after a court found her and two dozen figures from her National Rally (RN) party guilty of embezzling EU funds.The conviction will prevent her from running in the 2027 presidential election, where she was hoping to unseat President Emmanuel Macron.In a Truth Social post late on Thursday, Mr Trump praised Ms Le Pen and added: “She suffered…

Veteran Indian actor Manoj Kumar passed away on Friday at the age of 87. According to reports, he died in Mumbai due to heart-related complications. He was dubbed “Bharat Kumar” because of the patriotic nature of his films, focusing primarily on unity and national pride. Bharat is the ancient Sanskrit word for India. Modi offers says Kumar’s films ignited ‘spirit of national pride’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered his condolences on the passing away for the senior actor, saying his movies “ignited a spirit of national pride and will continue to inspire generations.” Kumar was also a member of Modi’s…

The release of Netflix’s “Adolescence,” which depicts the fallout from the online radicalization of young boys by misogynistic figures such as Andrew Tate, is highlighting what people have suspected for a long time: Spending too much time online has a detrimental effect on teenage minds.  The show is even impacting government policy decisions. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he’d watched “Adolescence,” which has spurred the UK government to examine how to address the “emerging and growing problem” posed by online radicalization of young boys. Every generation of parents fears teenagers are being corrupted by things outside their control: Socrates was accused of corrupting…

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has firmly dismissed the repeated calls by President Donald Trump and his administration for the United States to take control of Greenland. “This is not only about Greenland or Denmark, this is about the world order that we have built together across the Atlantic over generations,” Mette Frederiksen said from Greenland on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference flanked by the island’s incoming and outgoing prime ministers, she switched to English to directly address the United States. “You cannot annex another country, not even with an argument about security,” she said. Greenland officially belongs to…

The German Football Association (DFB) announced Almuth Schult’s retirement on Monday. The 34-year-old has been without a club since leaving the Kansas City Current in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in December last year. She is expecting her fourth child in October. “It was always clear to me that I would be available for the national team as long as my competitive sports career lasted. It has always filled me with pride to represent my country and to hear the anthem,” said Schult: “A career is marked by ups and downs, and I’m happy about every single one of…

South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, months after the ousted president’s declaration of martial law threw the country into chaos. Yoon was not present in court to hear the verdict. In a nationally televised unanimous verdict, the court’s acting chief Moon Hyung-bae said the eight-member bench upheld Yoon’s impeachment, finding that Yoon’s martial law declaration “violated” the constitution, did not not follow correct procedures and interfered with the independence of the judiciary. The verdict also said Yoon violated his duty as commander-in-chief by mobilizing troops. Yoon: ‘I am so sorry and regretful’  Yoon apologized…

As expected, US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on April 2. This batch of tariffs will hit both the country’s closest allies, like Japan, and adversaries, like China. At an elaborate ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Trump said the day would “forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn.” He added that the duties would bring in trillions of dollars “to reduce taxes and pay down our national debt.”  What has Trump proposed? The tariffs add a 10% tariff on nearly all imported goods from all trading partners. Additionally, reciprocal tariffs would be imposed on imports from dozens of countries. For imports…

Tanking stock markets, collapsing world orders, devastating trade wars; economists with their hair ablaze are scrambling to keep up.But as we try to make sense of Donald Trumps’s tariff tsunami, economic theory only goes so far. In the end this surely is about something more primal. Power.Understanding that may be crucial to how the world responds.Yes, economics helps explain the impact. The world’s economy has after all shifted on its axis, the way it’s been run for decades turned on its head. Instead of driving world trade, America is creating a trade war. We will all feel the impact. Please…

This article contains spoilers for the Netflix series “Adolescence.” An examination bed awaits Jamie Miller at the police station. “Jamie, do you want to just hop on the bed for me? I’m just gonna take some blood if that’s okay,” nurse Erica says. “Um, I don’t really like needles,” the boy stammers. Jamie is only 13 years old, still a child. His father tries to protect him: “He’s not good with needles, love.”  Jamie’s father is not yet aware that his child might be afraid of needles, but not of knives. Less than 24 hours earlier, Jamie killed his classmate Katie Leonard in a…

Every year, at least one satellite is destroyed by a space junk collision. With more than 130 million pieces of debris now trapped in orbit around Earth, the European Space Agency (ESA) expects that figure to rise. Combined with the increasing frequency of commercial space launches, which now account for most entries into Earth’s orbit, ESA is warning collisions with satellites could severely disrupt vital services like GPS services and environmental disaster monitoring. Satellites orbiting Earth now make regular collision avoidance maneuvers to avoid damage to — or the destruction of — this critical space infrastructure. These avoidance maneuvers also impact astronauts onboard the International…