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The Danish government has formed an expert group to explore whether it's legal to screen applicants for citizenship to see if they hold "anti-democratic" views.

It sounded like freedom, like a world of possibility beyond the orphanage walls.

Russia's violation of Poland's airspace with drones on Wednesday marks the most serious cross-border incident into a NATO member country since the war in Ukraine began.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Wednesday the North Atlantic Council had met after Poland invoked Article 4 of the NATO Treaty in response to Russian drones crossing into its airspace.

The Israeli spy agency Mossad and the White House both had promised not to attack Hamas officials in Doha, Qatar, before Tuesday's airstrikes by Israel Defense Forces.

Protesters blocked roads, lit blazes and were met with volleys of tear gas on Wednesday in Paris and elsewhere in France, heaping pressure on President Emmanuel Macron by attempting to give his new prime minister a baptism of fire.

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency reached on Tuesday an agreement on resuming inspections at uranium enrichment facilities hit by Israeli and U.S. bombs.

Poland shot down Russian drones that violated the country's airspace early Wednesday, Polish and NATO officials said, in what some European leaders cast as an "intentional" escalation by Moscow.

Nepalese soldiers guarded the streets of the country's capital on Wednesday and ordered people to stay at home as they moved to restore order after tens of thousands of protesters stormed and set fire to government buildings and attacked politicians.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem met Wednesday with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever in the port of Antwerp to discuss maritime security and bilateral efforts to fight transnational drug smuggling.