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Trump halts $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund amid bipartisan backlash 

01 June 2026

United States President Donald Trump will reportedly drop his $1.8bn “anti-weaponisation” fund amid congressional ba...

Armenian PM rejects Russia’s demand for EU referendum as relations nosedive 

01 June 2026

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has rejected a call from Moscow to hold an immediate referendum on leaving the R...

Protesters call on Kenyan government to halt femicide crisis 

01 June 2026

Thousands of Kenyans have marched through central Nairobi to demand that the government declare a national crisis over r...

Kenyans protest planned US Ebola quarantine facility 

01 June 2026

News|Ebola Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in central Kenya to protest a planned Ebola quarantine facility ...

Former election clerk Tina Peters released after Trump pressure campaign 

01 June 2026

Tina Peters, a former Colorado official convicted of allowing election machine tampering, has been released from state p...

International court rejects Rwanda’s claim over UK migration deal 

01 June 2026

News|Migration An international court has ruled that the United Kingdom does not need to pay Rwanda more than 100 millio...

Former general for Syria’s Assad pleads not guilty in torture trial 

01 June 2026

News|Syria’s War A former Syrian general has pleaded not guilty in an Austrian court to torturing opponents of ous...

Iran warns Israeli attacks in Lebanon and Gaza threaten US ceasefire talks 

01 June 2026

Iranian officials have warned that Israel’s escalating attacks on Lebanon and ongoing hostilities in Gaza threaten to ...

Who will replace Newsom? What to know about California’s primary elections 

01 June 2026

Few states are as synonymous with left-wing politics in the United States as California. On Tuesday, the western state i...