Trump calls on House Republicans to vote to release Epstein files  BBC Trump does Epstein U-turn as House Republicans prepare to spurn him  Politico Co-sponsors of petition to release Epstein files foresee growing GOP support for upcoming vote  CNN In shift, Trump says House should vote to release Epstein files  The Washington Post Trump Live Updates: Latest on the

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SYDNEY: Australia rejected on Monday Turkiye’s offer to co-host next year’s UN climate summit, as their rival bids for COP31 distract from this year’s ongoing negotiations in Brazil. Canberra and Ankara are under pressure to break the impasse and avoid a scene in Belem, where Brazil is desperate to show that climate diplomacy still works.

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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Sunday he backed lawmakers’ efforts to release more files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite his previous opposition to the measure. “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The 79-year-old Republican has accused

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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks against Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday, dismissing her claim that his criticism was endangering her and saying he did not believe anyone was targeting her. Greene said on Saturday that Trump’s online criticism had unleashed a surge of threats directed at her. On

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Police say 100 officers were injured in the protest, which came weeks after Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, was killed.

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BEIJING: A China Coast Guard ship formation passed through the waters of the Senkaku Islands on Sunday on a “rights enforcement patrol,” the China Coast Guard said in a statement, as Beijing ramps up tensions with Japan over its prime minister’s remarks on Taiwan. A diplomatic spat between China and Japan has intensified since Japanese

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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb on Saturday urged reforms to global climate-finance mechanisms, saying the Green Climate Fund was mired in “bureaucracy” and the Loss and Damage Fund had made little progress since its launch four years ago.

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LOS ANGELES: An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river doused Southern California on Saturday, prompting flood warnings in areas of coastal Los Angeles County that recently were ravaged by wildfire. The National Weather Service in Los Angeles and Oxnard reported heavy rainfall at rates as heavy as an inch (2.5 centimeters) per hour

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KARACHI: Pakistan’s government announced on Sunday that it has kept the price of petrol unchanged and hiked that of diesel by Rs6 per liter for the next fortnight, a notification from the Finance Division said. As per the latest notification, the new price of high speed diesel has been fixed at Rs284.44 per liter from

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DUBAI: A new wave of Arab animators and writers is transforming what was once a niche art form into a medium of cultural expression, identity and resistance. From Riyadh to Beirut, creators are reclaiming the animated screen — long dominated by imported content — to tell stories that sound, look and feel distinctly Arab.

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