July 12, 2025

The State Department began firing more than 1,300 people on Friday as part of a dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to a State Department official, CNN reports.   The firings will affect 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service officers in Washington, DC, an internal notice seen by CNN said. It comes as the…

Finland has notified the United Nations it is leaving the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of anti-personnel landmines, its foreign ministry said late on Thursday, Reuters reports.   The withdrawal will take effect six months after the notification, in January 2026, the ministry said in a statement.   Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Poland…