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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Democratic Senate hopeful in Iowa is pitching himself as a candidate who believes in the party’s “old Democratic values.”However, on Saturday, State Senator Zach Wahls hosted a campaign event at a radical activist bookstore, Dog-Eared Books, that has been vocal about abolishing ICE, financially supports anti-ICE nonprofits, holds drag story time for kids, and promotes books banned in schools for their sexually explicit content, among other far-left activism the store engages in. Fox News Digital asked Wahls ahead of the event if he was aware of the bookstore’s radical track record and…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump paid respects to late legendary football coach Lou Holtz Thursday after Holtz’s death Wednesday at the age of 89. Trump shared a tribute to Holtz in a Truth Social post.  Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz listens before being presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec, 3, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)”The wonderful Lou Holtz passed away yesterday, so sad. Lou was an absolute WINNER both on and off the field. Not only did he spearhead Notre…

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SEOUL: South Korea’s foreign minister said on Friday (Mar 6) that Seoul and Washington are in talks on possibly relocating weapons, as the war in Iran intensifies.The war in the Middle East has dragged in global powers and upended the world’s energy and transport sectors.South Korea, a US security ally, hosts around 28,500 American troops and air defence assets, including Patriot missile interceptors, to deter the nuclear-armed North.The operation of US forces in South Korea is “being closely coordinated between the military authorities of both countries”, Seoul’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said at a parliamentary hearing. Cho was responding to…

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Washington — In the week before an Iranian retaliatory strike that killed six American service members in Kuwait as the U.S.-Israeli war with Tehran began, Iranian intelligence was likely able to identify and track U.S. forces moving off military installations as a part of the Pentagon’s force protection plan. The troops had moved in anticipation of the preemptive strikes on Iran, according to a U.S. Army Central memo reviewed by CBS News. U.S. Army Central is a component of U.S. Central Command, the primary unit conducting operations against Iran. Its memo said that the U.S. had determined that Iranian-aligned militia groups…

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If you want to understand Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approach to foreign policy, meet the chartered professional accountant he put in charge of it. Arun Thangaraj, formerly the deputy minister of Transport Canada, was appointed to the top bureaucratic role at Global Affairs Canada on Wednesday morning.Thangaraj’s previous stint at the department was as its chief financial officer, and his foreign policy experience also includes a time as deputy chief financial officer at the Canadian International Development Agency.The shuffle is another data point in what we can reasonably, by now, call Carney’s foreign policy — one driven by transactional relationships,…

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GENEVA: The United Nations rights chief said on Friday (Mar 6) that 56 Afghan civilians had been killed – nearly half of them children – since hostilities with neighbouring Pakistan intensified last week.”I plead with all parties to bring an end to the conflict, and to prioritise helping those experiencing extreme hardship,” Volker Turk said in a statement.The neighbours have clashed along the frontier since Feb 26, when Afghanistan launched a border offensive in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes.Islamabad has hit back along the border and with fresh airstrikes, bombing multiple sites including the former United States air base at Bagram,…

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For decades, Africa’s pharmaceutical approvals were slowed by a patchwork of regulatory systems, with each country operating independently. A manufacturer seeking to sell the same product across several countries had to submit separate dossiers, pay multiple fees, respond to repeated scientific queries, and endure approval timelines that could stretch from 12 months in some markets to over 30 in others. Fragmented oversight, uneven technical capacity, and duplicated assessments made multi-country operations costly and uncertain, discouraging large-scale investment and slowing access to medicines for patients across the continent.The landscape began to change in 2025. The World Health Organization implemented its most…

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