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P rince Harry has lost a high court challenge against the British government regarding a 2020 decision by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) to downgrade the level of personal security he receives when visiting the U.K. The decision meant that Harry received a lower level of taxpayer-funded protection than other royals after he and his wife Meghan Markle transitioned out of their roles as “senior members” of the royal family. Harry’s lawyers challenged Ravec’s initial decision, arguing that it was “unlawful and unfair” and warned that a “successful attack” on Prince Harry could have an impact on the U.K.’s reputation. Retired High Court judge Sir Pet er Lane said, in heavily-redacted court documents, that Harry’s lawyers had “an inappropriate, formalist interpretation of the Ravec process” and that the decision made in 2020 was “legally sound.” In December, when the Duke of Sussex’s claim was first heard, Home Office lawyers said that Harry...

K ing Charles III lauded Ukrainians’ heroism and commended the U.K. and other allies’ support of the country in a message issued on the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The determination and strength of the Ukrainian people continues to inspire, as the unprovoked attack on their land, their lives, and livelihoods enters a third, tragic, year,” the King said in a message shared on X, formerly Twitter, along with a picture of himself and his wife, Queen Camilla, lighting candles in a church. “Despite the tremendous hardship and pain i NFL icted upon them, Ukrainians continue to show the heroism with which the world associates them so closely. Theirs is true valor, in the face of indescribable aggression.” King Charles said in the message that he has personally felt the bravery of Ukrainians—from meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska to new army recruits training in the U.K.—since the war started. “Despite the tremendous hardship and pain...

Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin halted his advance toward Moscow and pulled his fighters back, defusing what had become the biggest threat to Vladimir Putin’s grip on Russia in his almost quarter-century rule. As part of a deal to end the uprising the Russian president had personally guaranteed that Prigozhin would be allowed to leave for neighboring Belarus and authorities would drop criminal mutiny charges against him and his fighters, according to the Kremlin. There was no immediate confirmation from Prigozhin of the pact, which Russia said was brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a staunch Putin ally. “We were able to resolve the situation without further losses, without further increasing the level of tension,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Young Russian women fist-bumping Wagner fighters to say goodbye as they leave Rostov tonight. Crowds gathered along to streets and ...

A federal court on Friday will hear a lawsuit brought by the conservative Heritage Foundation against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to obtain the immigration records of Prince Harry, who has lived in the U.S. since 2020, over concerns about his admitted use of illegal drugs. In suing the DHS, the Heritage Foundation is seeking clarity on whether proper protocols were followed in granting the Duke of Sussex entry into the U.S. The move comes in the wake of revelations from Harry's memoir Spare , where he candidly discusses his past drug use, including cocaine, marijuana, and magic mushrooms. The Heritage Foundation contends that such admissions raise serious questions about the prince’s eligibility for a U.S. visa under immigration law. Although critics have dismissed the lawsuit as political theater, the Heritage Foundation has said that the public should understand the circumstances surrounding Harry’s admission into the country. “Given Harry’s extensive drug use admis...

VALENCIA, Spain — The death toll from a dramatic fire that left two residential buildings charred in the Spanish city of Valencia rose to 10 on Saturday after authorities announced they had located the remains of what they believed was the last missing person. Forensic police found the 10th victim inside the scorched building, national government delegate in Valencia Pilar Bernabé told journalists. Police will proceed with DNA testing to confirm the identities of all the victims, she said. While there were no other missing persons reported, Bernabé stressed that police and firefighters would continue the “complex” work of combing through the building debris in search of any other possible victim. It was not immediately known how many people were in the two buildings when the fire broke out, but the complex had some 140 apartments. Firefighters work at a burned block building in Valencia, Spain, on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. A fire engulfed two residential buildings in the eastern Spanish c...

WASHINGTON — The United States and the European Union are piling new sanctions on Russia on the eve of the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week in an Arctic penal colony. The U.S. Treasury, State Department and Commerce Department plan Friday to impose roughly 600 new sanctions on Russia and its war machine in the largest single tranche of penalties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. They come on the heels of a series of new arrests and indictments announced by the Justice Department on Thursday that target Russian businessmen, including the head of Russia’s second-largest bank, and their middlemen in five separate federal cases. The European Union announced Friday that it is imposing sanctions on several foreign companies over allegations that they have exported dual-use goods to Russia that could be used in its war against Ukraine. The 27-nation bloc also said th...

S ince Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, support for Kyiv has remained relatively durable across Europe and the U.S. But as the full-scale war enters its third year—and as fears about the adverse effect of flagging American support and a potential second Trump presidency on the Ukrainian war effort—pessimism about the chances of Ukraine successfully repelling Russia from its territory have grown. Even in Europe, where support for Ukraine is widely seen as less divisive than it is across the Atlantic, an average of 10% of Europeans believe that Ukraine will win the war, according to a recent pan-European study by the European Council on Foreign Relations, while twice as many expect a Russian victory. The prevailing view (37% on average) anticipates that the war will most likely end in some kind of settlement.  “On this question of what you expect to happen, there is quite a lot of unity across Europe,” says Pawel Zerka, a Paris-based senior policy...

F or months, Israel’s staunchest allies in the U.S. and Europe had largely avoided using the C-word. To call for a ceasefire, they argued, would be to deny Israel its right to root out Hamas from Gaza in retaliation for its Oct. 7 massacre. But as the humanitarian situation in the Strip has deteriorated and as calls for an end to the hostilities have grown, pressure has mounted on Israel and its backers to change tack. Now, as the Palestinian death toll nears 30,000 and as Israel prepares its ground invasion of the Gazan city of Rafah, where more than half of the Strip’s 2.3 million people are sheltering, many Western capitals are doing just that. Among the first notable shifts came from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, which on Feb. 15 issued a joint statement calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” noting that an Israeli ground offensive on Rafah would be “devastating” and would force its Palestinian civilian population to “pay the price of defeating Hamas.” Days later,...

I n the intricate tapestry of African Politics , Senegal has long been hailed as a shining democratic example—a nation where liberal values are upheld, and citizens’ voices are heard. But recent events have cast a shadow over Senegal and are ushering in a period of uncertainty and unrest. In a televised address to the nation on Feb. 3, 2024, just a few hours before the start of the presidential campaign, President Macky Sall abruptly announced the postponement of presidential elections originally slated for Feb. 25, a decision he made unilaterally. A new election date was later set for Dec. 15, 2024, which would extend Sall’s term by nine months. Chaos ensued. The delay prompted Senegal’s top court to rule it was unconstitutional, has triggered mass demonstrations, and got 15 of the country’s 20 rival candidates to join forces to urge Sall to hold a contest before April 2, when his term expires. He now pledges a vote “as soon as possible.” What explains all of this? To justify the dela...

A fter an evening of chaos in the U.K. House of Commons on Wednesday, British lawmakers are calling for Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to resign. At the time of publication, at least 59 MPs have signed a motion of no confidence in Hoyle over his handling of a debate on whether to back a ceasefire in Gaza. Members of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the ruling Conservatives staged a walkout of the chamber on Wednesday evening in protest over what they believed to be a breach of parliamentary procedure on Hoyle’s part. Speakers of the House of Commons must remain politically neutral at all times, but Hoyle was accused of breaking a long-standing convention to allow a vote on Labour’s amendment to an SNP ceasefire proposal. The rule dictates that motions presented by opposition parties can only be amended by the Government and not by other opposition parties. But Hoyle bypassed this to further open up the debate.  The SNP is entitled to three opposition days per parliamentary session ...

T he World Food Programme announced on Tuesday that it will be temporarily halting aid deliveries to northern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people depend on the organization’s assistance for lifesaving nutrition. The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement that it's pausing deliveries because c onditions were not being met to allow for the safe distribution of aid. On Sunday, an aid truck was surrounded by crowds of hungry people, and many individuals attempted to climb on board the food trucks and the trucks faced gunfire, according to WFP. On Monday, another truck attempting to deliver aid faced “complete chaos and violence due to the collapse of civil order.” Multiple trucks were looted and a truck driver was badly beaten, and what limited supplies were able to be delivered were handed out "amidst high tension and explosive anger," the statement said. “The latest reports confirm Gaza’s precipitous slide into hunger and disease. Food and safe water have b...

I n 2015, a 62-year-old man named Kunjumon Devasey from a remote village in Kerala arrived at his local forest division office to turn himself in. His crime: for nearly two years, the former forest watcher was an accomplice to a ring of poachers who had killed over 20 elephants in the southern Indian state. Devasey's wild confessions eventually saw him get charged with 16 poaching cases, but he had no regrets: "I've no future but my conscience was killing me. It had to be done,” he told reporters. Devasey’s whistleblowing also led to the discovery of the biggest case of elephant poaching in India’s History . Authorities from the government-run Indian Forest Service tracked down and arrested 74 people involved in a poaching syndicate operating across five states in India, including the hunters and carriers, as well as the primary collectors and sponsors of ivory. "In the process, we profiled a massive network operating in India and abroad,” Surendra Kumar, one of the i...

Y ulia Navalnaya’s account on Elon Musk’s X social-media service was briefly suspended, a day after it was used to help her challenge Russian President Vladimir Putin over the death of her husband. The widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused Putin of killing him in a video posted on her X account on Monday. That came as she announced she was taking over Navalny’s role as opposition leader after his death in a remote Russian prison colony on Friday. Read More: Column: Alexei Navalny Is With Us Forever Now Her profile page showed an “account suspended” message on Tuesday and an explanation that the service suspends accounts that violate the platform’s rules. Shortly after, the account appeared online again. X said in a post on the site that Navalnaya’s account was mistakenly flagged by a “defense mechanism against manipulation and spam.” The company said it plans to update the program and had unsuspended the account when it became aware of the error. The account was both flagge...