Turkish riot police forced their way into the headquarters of the country's main opposition party on Sunday, days after a court dismissed its leadership.

Clouds of tear gas billowed outside the Republican People's Party (CHP) building in Ankara, where party members had blocked the entrances with a makeshift barricade.

Footage from the scene showed those inside shouting and throwing objects towards the entrance, and police being sprayed with hoses. (..)

Human Rights Watch warned on Saturday that Erdoğan's government was undermining Turkish democracy with "abusive tactics" against the CHP.

EU member states on Wednesday gave a preliminary approval to unlock a €90 billion loan for Ukraine. The decision comes after delays linked to an oil dispute over the Druzhba pipeline, with Hungary vetoing the funding.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s parliament voted Saturday to elect Nizar Amidi, a political official with one of the country’s two main Kurdish parties, as president, five months after a parliamentary election that didn’t produce a bloc with a decisive majority.

His election comes as Iraq is reeling from the fallout of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Iraq became caught in the middle of the conflict, with Iran-backed militias launching attacks on U.S. bases and diplomatic facilities as well as on critical energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Israel carried out airstrikes targeting the militias, some of which killed members of the Iraqi military.

The war and Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz also largely halted the oil exports upon which Iraq’s economy depends.

• Trump administration said in 2020 that he could leave treaties
• Congress passed law in 2023 barring unilateral NATO withdrawal
• No NATO member has ever withdrawn from the 77-year-old alliance
• As senator, Rubio helped lead effort to prevent unilateral withdrawal

WHAT DOES U.S. LAW SAY? In 2023, Congress passed, and then-President Joe Biden, a ​Democrat, signed into law, legislation barring any U.S. president from suspending, terminating, denouncing or withdrawing the United States from the treaty that established NATO unless the withdrawal is backed by a two-thirds majority in the 100-member Senate.

TL;DR; Per 2023 Congressional Law, not without a 2/3 US Congressional majority (and with a one year notice to NATO). But, experts said this lack of commitment, rather than any law, was the key point.

Russian oil is now selling at either no discount or even a premium as governments scramble to replace energy supplies lost after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Thursday.

“Today, when there’s a deficit in the market, our oil and petroleum products are in high demand,” Novak told reporters, according to the Interfax news agency.

“We’ve moved from a discount to either no discount or, in some cases, even a partial premium,” he said.

Reuters estimates that Russia’s oil and gas revenues could jump by around 70% in April from March amid the rise in global prices, reaching their highest monthly level since October 2025.

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The European Parliament has backed legislation to implement an EU-US trade deal, following months of uncertainty over President Donald Trump's tariff threats.

On Thursday, lawmakers moved to strengthen its safeguards, including a provision to suspend the agreement if the US imposes additional tariffs above 15% or introduces new duties on EU goods. Another would halt the deal if the US threatened the EU's territorial sovereignty.

MEPs also included a "sunrise clause" that means EU tariff reductions will only take effect if the US upholds its side of the bargain - including lowering tariffs to 15% on EU products that contain less than 50% steel and aluminium.

When the framework agreement was announced last summer, Trump said the 50% US tariff on global steel and aluminium would still apply to the EU.

KYIV, March 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of ‌Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview.

With the U.S. focused on its own conflict with Iran, President Donald Trump is applying pressure to Ukraine in an effort to bring a quick end to the four-year war triggered by Russia's 2022 invasion, Zelenskiy said.

Russia has launched a huge wave of nearly 1,000 drones at Ukraine, killing at least seven people, as Moscow appears to be stepping up a spring offensive intended to break Ukrainian resistance along the front.

The geopolitical situation has become more complicated due to the war against Iran, and unfortunately, this is emboldening Russia.”

The well-sourced outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported that the US had put pressure on Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donetsk region during the Florida talks, saying Washington could step back from peace negotiations and shift its focus further to the military operation in Iran.

Canada is pushing for a collective G7 and Middle East approach to de-escalating the Iran war, including off ramps that could bring an end to the conflict, the Canadian foreign minister, Anita Anand, has said.

In London to meet the UK foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, after talks with the her Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, Anand told the Guardian she hoped a G7 meeting chaired by France, this year’s president of the group, might start to build a broader collective approach to the crisis.

BRUSSELS, March 17 (Reuters) - European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called on the United States and Israel ​on Tuesday to end their war with Iran and said the EU was consulting with governments in the Middle East about how ‌to bring the conflict to a conclusion(...)

"We have been consulting with regional countries like ‌the Gulf ⁠countries, Jordan, Egypt, (about) whether we could also bring forward proposals for Iran, Israel and the U.S. to get out of this situation so that everybody saves face."

MADRID, March 11 (Reuters) - More than 330 people have been arrested across 70 countries in a ​crackdown on organised crime networks accused ‌of trafficking illicit waste within Europe and exporting it to Africa, Asia and Latin America, Europol said ​on Wednesday.

Authorities seized 127,149 metric tons ​of waste, 602 tons of polluting agents ⁠along with 75 tons of plant ​protection chemicals, 2.3 tons of mercury and nearly ​10 million euros ($11.6 million) in cash and bank accounts.

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A major online forum for stolen data has been dismantled following an international operation coordinated by Europol.

The forum, known as LeakBase, had established itself as a central hub in the cybercrime ecosystem, specialising in the trade of leaked databases and so-called “stealer logs” – archives of stolen credentials harvested through infostealer malware. Accessible on the open web and operating in English, the platform combined elements of a forum and discussion board, enabling cybercriminals to buy, sell and exchange compromised data.