00:00US President Donald Trump has announced that his country will resume testing its nuclear
00:04weapons for the first time in three decades, citing Russia and China doing their own tests.
00:10A massive Russian drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday killed three people
00:14including a seven-year-old girl and injured 17 others including children.
00:20Buckingham Palace says Prince Andrew is to lose his prince title and move out of his
00:26royal lodge over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:31The United States is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the country
00:36to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, the lowest refugee admission cap in
00:44the US history.
00:46According to a registered notice published on Thursday but dated September 30, the admission
00:52of the 7,500 refugees during the 2026 budget year is quote justified by humanitarian concerns
01:02or is otherwise in the national interest end of quote.
01:06The new numbers are a steep decrease from last year's ceiling of 125,000 set under Democratic
01:14President Joe Biden.
01:16Trump suspended the refugee program on his first day in office and since then only a
01:23trickle have entered the US, mostly white South Africans.
01:27The announcement cements a major shift in policy toward refugees that aligns with the Trump administration's
01:34goals of keeping out foreigners whom it deems a risk to US security or a threat to jobs.
01:42U.S. President Donald Trump returned to Washington after a face-to-face meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday.
02:05Trump called the meeting a success and said he would cut tariffs on China.
02:09In return, Beijing agreed to allow for the export of rare earth minerals and would start buying American soybeans.
02:16I thought it was an amazing meeting.
02:19He's a great leader, a leader of a very powerful, very strong country, China.
02:26And what can I say, we have, it was an outstanding group of decisions I think that was made.
02:38Trump had implemented the tariffs as a punishment on China for selling chemicals used to make fentanyl in the US.
02:45In response, China hit back by imposing additional export restrictions on its rare earth minerals.
02:52While these controls were initially a response to US tariffs, the EU had become collateral damage in the dispute.
02:58Chinese President Xi Jinping admitted the US and China did not see, quote, eye-to-eye with each other at times,
03:06adding that it was normal that two leading economies have frictioned from time to time.
03:11However, he said that China and the US are able to help each other succeed and prosper together.
03:17Trump announced that he will travel to China in April and also invited Xi for a visit to the United States.
03:24A massive Russian drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday killed three people, including a seven-year-old girl, Ukrainian officials have said.
03:35Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Sivrydenko described Moscow's daily targeting of the power grid as systematic energy terror.
03:43The latest deadly strikes also injured 17 others in the south region of Zaporizhia, including children between the ages of 2 and 16.
03:52The rescuers pulled a man from the rubble of a building, but he did not survive, while the seven-year-old girl died in a hospital.
03:59Russia launched more than 650 drones and more than 50 missiles of various types in the attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
04:07Months of attacks have aimed to disrupt the power supplies, cut the heat during the bitter winter and erode morale.
04:16To stop this terror, Ukraine needs more air defense systems, tougher sanctions and maximum pressure on Russia, Prime Minister Sivrydenko said.
04:24The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has warned these attacks pose a new challenge as Russia scales up strikes on Ukraine's already weakened infrastructure.
04:34Aegean Airlines will become the first European carrier to fly directly to Baghdad, the Greek Foreign Minister said on Thursday during a visit to Iraq.
04:47The Greek airline is scheduled to operate its inaugural flight from Athens to Iraqi capital on the 16th of December.
04:54Greek Foreign Minister Yorgos Kherapetritis said this step will substantially boost economic and cultural ties.
05:01His Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein welcomed the move, saying recent visits from European leaders show the stability country is experiencing.
05:10Hussein added that the two countries also discussed cooperation in agriculture, investment and tourism.
05:16The news comes as plans are underway to upgrade Baghdad International Airport.
05:20The Dutch election is going to the wire, with forces led by newcomer Robiette of the centrist Liberal D66 party making spectacular gains in a blow to the far-right PVV led by Geert Wilders.
05:37But with the PVV looming close behind and the final result too close to call, many questions remain open about the possibilities for the potential next coalition.
05:46There is a big distinction between D66 and the PVV here, because D66 might actually form a government.
05:53It's a centrist party, there's many majorities that D66 could form.
05:57The PVV not so much, because basically the entire Dutch political centre has said that they will not cooperate with them.
06:03Although Wilders may still come out on top in terms of the popular vote, yet it remains a much more likely choice for Prime Minister.
06:11But other big parties on both the left and the right may prove decisive on where the coalition will end up on the political spectrum.
06:19The Green Left Labour Party has just lost a lot of seats, their leader has stepped down and they are in no talking mood.
06:25However, it is very clear that they do want to participate in the government also with the VV Day.
06:30The VVD, however, has basically run their campaign on not being willing to cooperate with the Green Left Labour Party.
06:36So that will be a very difficult hurdle to take.
06:38In 2023, the Netherlands took more than six months to reach a coalition agreement.
06:44Almost two weeks after the crown jewel heist at the Louvre in Paris, five more people were arrested Wednesday overnight.
06:56One of them, who was identified by DNA, is suspected of being part of the four-person team that robbed the museum in broad daylight.
07:04That's according to a Paris public prosecutor.
07:08The prosecutor added that the four other arrests concern people who could provide information about how the theft unfolded.
07:16The latest arrests did not help recover the stolen pieces valued at 88 million euros.
07:22After, what I want to say very clearly, it is to say to those who detain them today,
07:30it is that, obviously, the justice will be aware of the absence of prejudice of this cambriolage.
07:38That means it's a deal, or it's because it's the logic of justice?
07:42It's the logic of what is happening in each affair.
07:48I would say that the cooperation and the investigation is worth it, obviously.
07:53On Saturday, two other men were arrested and were said to have since partially admitted their involvement in the robbery.
08:00They face preliminary charges of theft committed by an organized gang and criminal conspiracy
08:06and are expected to be held in provisional detention.
08:13The European Central Bank is staying on the course.
08:16On Thursday, the ECB announced that it would hold its interest rate at 2%.
08:21The Frankfurt-based bank has not changed its monetary policy since June.
08:27The European institution also announced that year-on-year inflation rose slightly in September to 2.2%,
08:34slightly above the ECB's target.
08:37We are determined to ensure that inflation stabilizes at our 2% target in the medium term.
08:44We will follow a data-dependent and meeting-by-meeting approach to determining the appropriate monetary policy stance.
08:53The ECB's announcement comes a few hours after the US Federal Reserve decided to cut its key interest rate by a quarter of a point to around 3.9%.
09:03This is the second time this year that the central bank has chosen to lower its key interest rate.
09:10King Charles is stripping his brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicting him from his royal residence, Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Thursday.
09:21The palace said Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and not as a prince.
09:27The move follows revelations about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
09:33The renewed attention follows claims from Virginia Roberts Jeffrey, who died by suicide in April,
09:39that she had sexual encounters with Andrew when she was 17.
09:42Andrew has long denied Jeffrey's claims but stepped down from loyal duties in 2019.
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