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A top US lawmaker called on FIFA to pay for World Cup public transportation costs on Tuesday following a report that local authorities in New Jersey are planning massive price hikes during the tournament. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said on X that football’s world governing body — which stands to earn $11 billion from the tournament — should foot the bill for transport costs to World Cup venues. Schumer was responding to a report in The Athletic on Tuesday, which said New Jersey Transit is planning to charge fans more than $100 for tickets from Penn Station…

The founder of Omega Power Ministries, Chibuzor Chinyere, has revealed that his church offers free rehabilitation services to repentant kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists as part of efforts to curb crime. In a statement on Wednesday on Facebook, Chinyere said the initiative is fully funded through tithes and offerings from the church. He explained that individuals rescued from criminal camps are disarmed and reformed through a structured process involving both spiritual and vocational training. “When I rescue them from camp, they surrender their guns, which I hand over to the police. They undergo spiritual and physical rehabilitation,” he said. He…

U.S. President Donald Trump, whose war and immigration policies have been condemned by Pope Leo, reiterated his criticism of ​the religious leader on Tuesday night. In a post on Truth Social, ‌Trump urged that “someone please tell Pope Leo” about the killings of protesters by Iran and that “for Iran to have a Nuclear Bomb is absolutely unacceptable.” The U.S. and Israel attacked ​Iran on February 28. Iran responded with its own strikes on ​Israel and Gulf states with U.S. bases. U.S.-Israeli strikes on ⁠Iran and Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed thousands and displaced millions. Iran does ​not have nuclear weapons…

 Hungary’s election ​winner Peter Magyar, ‌leader of the TISZA ​party which ​won a landslide ⁠victory in ​Sunday’s election, ​arrived for a meeting with President ​Tamas Sulyok ​on Wednesday. As Magyar ‌was ⁠going into the meeting, speaking to reporters ​he ​reiterated ⁠that Sulyok must ​leave his ​role ⁠after a TISZA ⁠government ​takes office.

The United States’ claims about ​China exerting military pressure on Taiwan are distorted, and demonstrate its “malicious intentions”, a government spokesperson ‌in Beijing said on Wednesday. China has stepped up military activity around democratically governed Taiwan, which it views as its own territory, holding several rounds of war games, most recently with live-fire drills in late December. “Certain people on the U.S. side are jumping ​up and down, continuously rehashing the so-called ‘mainland threat’ or ‘military pressure,'” Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for China’s ​Taiwan Affairs Office, told reporters. This represented “a complete distortion of the facts and harbours malicious ⁠intentions,” he…

 North Korea ​has made “very serious” advances in its abilities to turn out nuclear weapons, with the probable addition of a ‌new uranium enrichment facility, as it stepped up activity at a key complex, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday. Enriching uranium can provide an alternative, and experts say, a more effective, path to acquiring weapons-grade material in addition to reprocessing spent plutonium extracted from a nuclear reactor. Speaking in Seoul, the head ​of the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed a rapid rise in activity at the five-megawatt reactor, the reprocessing unit, ​a light water reactor and other facilities…

 China and Russia must trust and support each other, deepen ​cooperation and defend each other’s interests, President Xi Jinping said ‌on Wednesday, assuring Moscow of friendship even as the world’s No.2 economy expands ties with other neighbours and nations. In a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at ​the Great Hall of the People, Xi said the “stability” and “certainty” of China-Russia ​relations were particularly valuable as he told the Russian envoy to convey ⁠his sincere regards to President Vladimir Putin, according to the official ​Xinhua news agency. A handful of Western leaders have paid visits to Beijing ​this year,…

A Rohingya survivor has recounted a harrowing journey at sea after an overcrowded boat carrying refugees and Bangladeshi nationals capsized in the Andaman Sea, leaving around 250 people missing. The boat, ​which departed from Teknaf in southern Bangladesh and was bound for Malaysia, sank in the ‌second week of April amid rough seas, strong winds and severe overcrowding, the United Nations’ refugee and migration agencies said. Bangladesh hosts around 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in camps in the south, most of whom fled violence in Myanmar in 2017. Many continue ​to attempt dangerous sea journeys in search of safety and livelihoods abroad. Survivors said…

 Chinese President Xi Jinping called for ​China and Vietnam to ‌maintain a high degree of strategic clarity and ​prioritise safeguarding political security ​during a meeting with ⁠his Vietnamese counterpart on ​Wednesday. Vietnam’s top leader, To ​Lam, is in China until Friday in his first overseas ​trip since being ​elected state president last week, a ‌sign ⁠of warming ties between the two Communist neighbours. The countries have grown closer ​in ​recent ⁠years, cooperating in railways, technology and ​other sectors, even ​as ⁠they remain at odds over maritime boundaries in ⁠the ​South China Sea.

 When anti-government protests began in Georgia in late 2024, Luka Mishveladze started sleeping on the floor at his university building to be closer to student rallies. Some 18 months later, the 20-year-old student is now a protest ​organiser, demonstrating outside the same building in the capital Tbilisi against government reforms of higher education that look set to force his university’s closure. “It was hard ‌for me to realise that this was happening in reality, that I am losing my university, the place I am used to calling home,” Mishveladze told Reuters. Opponents of the government see the overhaul adopted in…