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A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at U.S. President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. Source link

The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. troops to refuse unlawful orders. Source link

The United States and Ukraine pressed on with talks in Switzerland on Monday to come up with a mutually acceptable peace plan, after agreeing to modify a U.S. proposal that Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list. Source link

Three suicide bombers targeted the headquarters of a Pakistani paramilitary force on Monday, killing three personnel and wounding at least five, authorities said. Source link

On his first full day in jail, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro told a judge on Sunday he had violated his ankle monitoring the day before while under house arrest because of a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in his medication. Source link

Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, bringing relief to some distraught families after one of the largest school abductions in Nigeria’s history. Source link

At least two dozen people were wounded and have been taken to hospitals in the area, medical sources said. Source link

The U.S. and Ukraine said they had created an “updated and refined peace framework” to end the war with Russia that apparently modified an earlier plan drafted by the Trump administration which Kyiv and its allies saw as too sympathetic to Moscow. Source link

As Canada starts to diversify its ties with other countries amidst an increasingly unpredictable and unreliable relationship with the U.S., its pivot toward China, in particular, will need to be strategic: the work must be done while balancing the risks and strengthening the country internally. Source link

World governments agreed on Saturday to a compromise climate deal at the COP30 conference in Brazil that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming — but omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it. Source link