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Israel should “stop killing people” and accept the terms of a cease-fire with Lebanon brokered by the US and France, the EU’s foreign policy chief said. #Press | #PlebChain…

Călin Georgescu barely registered in national opinion polls, didn’t take part in big TV debates, and doesn’t even belong to a political party. But he’s leading the race to become Romania’s next president. #Press | #PlebChain…

At least one policeman was killed and dozens of people injured in Pakistan as supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan clashed with security forces outside the capital Islamabad on Monday, a government minister and Khan's party said #Press | #PlebChain…

Human Rights Watch said Monday that an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon that killed three journalists last month was carried out with a U.S. bomb-guidance kit in what was “most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime.” In a report, the organization said that based…

Romanian Călin Georgescu won a shock first-round victory in the country’s presidential elections, according to official results published this afternoon. #Press | #PlebChain…

A British man fighting for Ukraine has been captured by Russian forces in the Kursk region. A video shows a question-and-answer session with a captive man, who identifies himself as 22-year-old James Scott Rhys Anderson. #Press | #PlebChain…

The leader of the French far right, Marine Le Pen, threatened to topple the government and throw France into fiscal and political turmoil over a budget dispute after meeting with Prime Minister Michel Barnier today. #Press | #PlebChain…

The European Union, the U.S. and other wealthy countries raised their offer of climate funding for developing nations to $300 billion a year at COP29 on Saturday, in a bid to unlock increasingly tense negotiations already a day into overtime #Press | #PlebChain…

The Singaporeans are giving out free beer made from recycled toilet water at the COP29 climate summit. “At first their eyes widen,” one of the leaders of Singapore’s youth delegation said. “Then we reassure them. They’re usually coming back the next day for another.” #Press | #PlebChain They are…

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is preparing to announce that he has selected Scott Bessent, who runs macro hedge fund Key Square Group, as the next US Treasury secretary, according to people familiar with the matter #Press | #PlebChain…

U.S. government researchers have found that a widely prescribed asthma drug originally sold by Merck & Co may be linked to serious mental health problems for some patients, according to a scientific presentation reviewed by Reuters #Press | #PlebChain…

Declassified memo reveals Putin's assassination targets. The list includes: Alexander Litvinenko (poisoned in 2006) Boris Nemtsov (shot in 2015) Mikhail Lesin (died from blunt force trauma in 2015) Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev (killed in 2004) Alexander Perepilichnyy (reportedly assassinated with a biological toxin in 2012) Oleksandr Bednov (killed in 2015)

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that there is a "serious and real" threat of global war after this week's major escalation in the conflict in Ukraine. #Press | #PlebChain…

By launching a new nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine on Thursday, Russia was threatening Kyiv and its Western allies with the aim of stopping Ukrainian strikes with Western-supplied weapons on Russian territory — or else. The attack has spurred fears in the West over a major escalation…