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Roots and Rupture: Trump withdraws forces from land of his forebears after clash with Merz

US President Donald Trump (AP photo) TOI correspondent from Washington: In a move steeped in geopolitical tension and personal irony, US President Donald Trump, whose grandfather emigrated from Germany, giving him one of the closest generational ties to the country of any modern American leader, has ordered the withdrawal of roughly 5,000 American troops from…

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‘Rules-based order a fiction’: Canadian PM says West excused US hegemony; Mark Carney hints at rupture

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney Canadian prime minister Mark Carney on Tuesday said the rules-based order, a concept that took shape after World War II, has been “partially false” and a “fiction” as the strongest country would “exempt themselves when convenient”.Stripping off the charade of the rules-based order, Carney said: “International law (was) applied with…

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