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Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the Duma, Russia’s parliament, said on Tuesday: “If they recognised the [USAid] organisation as an enemy, let them give us the lists. Congress will send us the lists — we will give them to the FSB [Russian security service].”

“What happened in this election campaign cannot go unchallenged,” Merz, the front-runner from the center-right conservative alliance, told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. “It can be a political response. It can be a legal response. I want to analyze this calmly after this election campaign.” The country goes to the polls Feb. 23.

“This isn’t an HR complaint about harassment or bullying or anything like that. This is a matter of behaviour that is entirely public,” he said. “Everybody can see what Musk has said and what he’s doing as head of Doge, and the Royal Society, which claims to have a strong voice for science within the UK, but actually, even on the international stage, has said absolutely nothing.”

Though Putin has not commented on the New York Post story so far, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov used ambiguous language when addressing the matter to reporters on Sunday, saying that there were “many different communications” being conducted “through many different channels” and that he was unable either to confirm or deny that the call had taken place.

China's proposal to turn the former Royal Mint building into Europe's largest embassy was rejected by Tower Hamlets council before Secretary of State Angela Rayner called them in and announced she would make the final decision in October.

Palestinians “must be allowed home”, Keir Starmer has said in the wake of Donald Trump’s proposal to remove people from the Gaza Strip and put the territory under US control.

The manufacturer registered only 1,141 cars in January, the fewest since August 2022, according to French industry association La Plateforme Automobile. Tesla underperformed the overall industry and total EV sales, which dipped 6.2% and 0.5%, respectively.

The White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S. on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime U.S. partner.

Upgraded gravity bombs are now stationed at military bases in Europe, the head of the U.S.'s nuclear military science agency has said, after it completed an overhaul of the B61-12 nuclear bomb.

Chinese hedge fund managers are racing to launch products styled on Bridgewater Associates' popular "All Weather" strategy, to meet hot investor demand for a cushion against expected volatility during Donald Trump's second U.S. presidency.

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio's "All Weather" is a volatility-mitigating, multi-asset strategy that helped shield its Chinese clients from the brunt of the Sino-U.S. trade war during Trump's first term.

A Slovak student receiving an award for placing at a mathematics competition refused to shake hands with Slovak President Peter Pellegrini.

The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has weighed in on a drama unfolding on the country’s beaches, declaring that beachgoers who use portable cabanas to claim a patch of sand are going against the nation’s spirit of equality.