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 The family of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre on Saturday urged Britain’s King Charles ‌to meet with survivors during his state visit to the United States later this month, saying the trip coincides with the anniversary of her death. In a statement shared with Reuters, Sky and Amanda Roberts said the visit ​would take place two days after the one-year anniversary of Giuffre taking her own ​life. “We strongly urge King Charles to meet with us and survivors and hear ⁠what we have to say,” they said. “We are thankful to him for heeding our sister’s allegations ​against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor,…

Explosives of “devastating power” were found near the Turkstream pipeline in Serbia that carries ​Russian natural gas to Hungary and beyond, leaders ‌from the two countries said on Sunday. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told him that explosives had been found ​near the pipeline, which transports Russian gas through ​the Balkans to Central and Eastern Europe. “Our units found ⁠an explosive of devastating power,” Vucic, a close ally ​of Orban, said in a post on Instagram. “I told PM ​Orban that we would keep him updated on the investigation.” Orban, who held a phone call…

China confirmed on Sunday the execution of a French national sentenced ​to death in 2010 for drug trafficking, saying ‌it did not discriminate against defendants on the basis of nationality, a day after Paris criticised the court handling of ​the case. The Chinese embassy in France made the ​remarks in a brief statement on the execution ⁠of 62-year-old Chan Thao Phoumy after a 20-year stint ​in jail. On Saturday, the French foreign ministry said it “particularly regretted” ​that Chan’s defence was not allowed to attend the court’s final hearing in violation of his rights. China, one of the world’s ​toughest…

An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, local health authorities ​said, in the latest violence to overshadow a fragile ceasefire amid ‌a new push by mediators to bolster the agreement. Medics said the airstrike targeted a group of people in Jaffa Street, near the Darraj neighbourhood in Gaza City, killing ​four people and wounding others. The Israeli military said forces in ​the northern Gaza Strip had struck and killed members of a ⁠Palestinian militant cell who were operating near the troops, posing an ​immediate threat to them. Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel have traded blame…

U.S. President Donald Trump ‌said in an expletive-laden social media post on Sunday that the United States will target ​Iran’s power plants and bridges on ​Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz ⁠is not reopened. “Tuesday will be Power ​Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped ​up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Trump said in a Truth ​Social post, referencing the key shipping ​lane that Tehran has effectively closed since the U.S. ‌and ⁠Israel launched attacks on Iran more than a month ago. “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living ​in Hell…

China is willing to continue to cooperate with ​Russia at the U.N. Security Council and ‌make efforts to cool down the Middle East situation, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergei ​Lavrov in a phone call on Sunday. Wang ​said the fundamental way to resolve navigation issues ⁠in the Strait of Hormuz is to ​achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible, adding ​that China has always advocated political settlement of hotspot issues through dialogue and negotiation. The foreign ministers’ call came ahead ​of a U.N. Security Council vote next week on ​a Bahraini resolution to protect commercial shipping in and…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr ​Zelenskiy has ‌made his first visit ​to Syria ​to hold a ⁠meeting ​with his counterpart ​Ahmed al-Sharaa, two Syrian sources ​told ​Reuters on Sunday. The talks ‌were ⁠linked to defence in light ​of ​the ⁠regional war, one ​of the ​sources, ⁠a government adviser, ⁠said.

Democratic Republic of Congo will receive ​third-country nationals deported from the United ‌States under a new deal with the Trump administration, the government in Kinshasa ​said in a statement on ​Sunday. The government said it will receive ⁠deportees starting in April, but ​did not say how many it had ​agreed to take. The arrangement will be paid for by the United States, with no ​cost to the Congolese government, ​the statement said. Facilities have been prepared near the ‌capital ⁠Kinshasa to accommodate the deportees, it said. The United States has sent third-country deportees to several African countries including Ghana, Cameroon, ​Equatorial ​Guinea…

Several aircraft were destroyed in the south of Iran’s ​Isfahan province during a U.S. mission to ‌find a stranded airman, Iranian military officials said on Sunday. U.S. officials said late on ​Saturday that a second airman ​whose F-15 jet was downed on Friday in ⁠Iran was rescued, a day after ​the first crew member was recovered. “Additional investigations ​by experts on the ground revealed that two C-130 military transport planes and two Black Hawk ​helicopters of the US army were ​destroyed by our forces,” the spokesperson of the ‌unified ⁠command of Iranian armed forces said. Separate statements by the Iranian army and…

U.S. forces staged the audacious rescue of an ​airman behind enemy lines after Iran downed his fighter jet, officials said on Sunday, resolving a crisis for President Donald Trump as he ‌weighs escalating the war, now in its sixth week. The airman rescued by special operations forces, who Trump said was a colonel, was the weapons-systems officer on the downed F-15, a U.S. official disclosed. “Over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History,” Trump said in a statement, adding ​that the airman was injured but “he will be just…