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FILE PHOTO: The US Department of Justice building is bathed in morning light at sunrise in Washington, U.S., February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Mary F Calvert

What happens now that US Justice Department must release the Epstein files?

The legislation compels Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce nearly everything the department gathered across multiple federal investigations into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, amounting to...

Photo: PID

What are the five charges against Hasina?

Attendees at the second Pan African Conference, Brussels, August 31 to September 2 1921. Photo: Unknown author - Pan-Africanism, Africana Age, NYPL exhibtion http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/photos/panafricanism/1953714.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56718666

The Pan-African Congress and its role in African liberation

The Truth social network logo is seen on a smartphone in front of a display of former U.S. President Donald Trump in this picture illustration taken February 21, 2022. (REUTERS Photo)

Truth Social: AI deepfakes, misinformation, and Trump loyalists

Containers are seen at Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China July 4, 2019/ Stringer via Reuters

Can China still hit its growth target?

People wearing protective face masks walk near the glass Pyramid of the Louvre museum in Paris, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in France, February 19, 2022. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

The Louvre just got robbed, here is how it happened

A demonstrator wearing a large mask depicting US President Donald Trump holds a sign during a "No Kings" protest against US President Donald Trump's policies, outside City Hall in Los Angeles, California, US, October 18, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Daniel Cole

What's driving the massive 'No Kings' protests against Trump's presidency

A drone view shows Thai soldiers and riot police officers confronting Cambodian people in a disputed village along the Thailand-Cambodia border in Sa Kaeo province, Thailand, September 17. Photo: Reuters via Royal Thai Army

From a leaked phone call to airstrikes: What sparked the deadly Thailand–Cambodia border clashes

Microsoft has ened Windows 10 support after ten years. Photo: Collected

Your Windows 10 is about to lose support. What now?

Miners are seen at the Bayan Obo mine containing rare earth minerals, in Inner Mongolia, China July 16, 2011. Picture taken July 16, 2011. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer/CHINA OUT/File Photo

How China's rare earth dominance became a geopolitical flashpoint

An employee of the Norwegian Nobel Institute holds a replica of a Nobel Peace Medal in the Institute in Oslo, Norway, September 9, 2025. Photo: Reuters.

Nobel Prizes 2025: The winners, their discoveries, and why Trump dominated the headlines

Tear gas rises during a standoff with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal officers in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, US, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

'Fear enforcement, not law enforcement': Why Chicago is protesting Trump’s ICE raids

Supporters of the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), an alliance of Kashmir civil rights groups, chant slogans as they gather to attend the funeral of men who were killed during a protest following a shutter-down strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Naseer ud Din

Explainer: What happened in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after days of anti-government protests?