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A second suspect was arrested Friday over a knife attack last weekend on a tram in the German city of Dresden in which an American man was wounded, authorities said.

Finland's Air Force, now part of NATO, still flies swastikas on a handful of unit flags - but is preparing to phase them out, largely to avoid awkwardness with its Western allies.

Britain's Court of Appeal on Friday overturned a ban on asylum-seekers from being housed at a hotel northeast of London that has been the site of protests for weeks and has become a political flashpoint across the country.

Donald Trump's choice as his lead diplomat entrusted with dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he is not taking part in negotiations to end the war in Gaza, is getting poor marks with European allies as well as U.S. officials.According to a report from Politico’s Felicia Schwartz, real estate investor-turned-international negotiator Steve Witkoff is leaving a trail of frustration and fury due to his secretive meetings with Putin, where he has failed to avail himself of the wealth of experts with experience in Russian negotiations and has refused to share the details being discussed.As the report notes, under Witkoff, “promised follow-up meetings between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have not materialized, ceasefire demands were dropped, threats of tough action have disappeared,” and the White House seems directionless.According to one U.S. official, “His inexperience shines through, he has the president’s ear, which is evident, but there has been some confusion about what has been said and agreed.”“He’s kind of a rogue actor,” another administration official admitted. “He talks to all these people, but no one knows what he says in any of these meetings. He will say things publicly but then he changes his mind. It’s hard to operationalize that.”The report points out that his U.S. is “sparsely staffed” and that he has refused help in understanding the differences between Russia and Ukraine from experts both inside and outside the government. Politico is reporting, “His staff, to the extent he has any, often doesn’t know where he is or what he is doing, according to four people familiar with the dynamics of the office. They said he spends most of his time at his office in the White House, while the rest of his team is at the State Department.”That led one diplomatic expert to complain, “The thing is, Witkoff isn’t consistently engaged. He will pop in for a visit to Vladimir Putin, say a bunch of stuff, not tell anyone what really happened and then just f--- off to his life again. Meanwhile, the Russians are talking to you about how 'Witkoff says…’ and you don’t know whether they’re right or not, but you can’t get a readout from the Russians.”The report adds, “Witkoff at times appears to struggle to focus on more than one task at a time, the U.S. official and another one of the people said, adding that when a flurry of developments occurs in one portfolio, say Gaza or Iran or Ukraine, other priorities take a backseat. He is not a voracious consumer of his intelligence briefing materials and doesn’t read them every day, the second person said.”You can read more here.

Rescuers in Pakistan's Punjab province are racing to reach stranded families after heavy rain and water from overflowing dams in India caused major rivers to burst their banks

European Commission summons Russia's top diplomat in Brussels over attack that damaged European Union building in Kyiv

Gains in cutting deaths from tuberculosis at risk as health officials warn clinics forced to ration drugs and testingMalawi is facing a critical shortage of tuberculosis drugs, with health officials warning that stocks will run out by the end of September.It comes just months after the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that the country had successfully reduced tuberculosis (TB) cases by 40% over the past decade. Continue reading...

Likened to a ‘trade embargo’ and an ‘earthquake’, it could cut exports from affected sectors by as much as 70%Donald Trump’s tariffs of 50% have come into force on most US imports from India. The US president followed through on his threat to punish one of the world’s largest economies for its purchases of discounted Russian oil. Continue reading...