Before heading to Washington DC, he will complete a two-day visit to Paris. He will be among the few foreign leaders to visit Washington DC within weeks of the new administration taking office. Dozens of employees at the U. Sheria Smith, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local , stated that many of those placed on leave do not work in DEI programs and belong to various branches of the department, including offices handling school funding and civil rights enforcement.
The exact number of affected employees remains unclear. At least 55 workers received an email on Friday informing them of their immediate leave, with no disciplinary action cited. They lost access to their government emails and were instructed not to report to work. A department spokesperson was unavailable for comment. Some employees warned that these suspensions could disrupt key operations, such as student loans and financial aid processing.
Santorini shaken by intense seismic activity, PM Mitsotakis calls for calm. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday urged calm after a series of seismic tremors shook the tourist island of Santorini, leading to mass departures. A powerful explosion rocked an upscale residential block in Moscow on Monday morning, killing one person and injuring four others, Russian news agencies reported, citing emergency officials.
Authorities have launched a criminal probe, classifying the case as murder by means injurious to the public and attempted murder of two or more people. Russian state media identified one of the injured as Armen Sarkisyan, the founder of a volunteer battalion fighting in Ukraine and the head of a boxing federation in Russian-occupied Donetsk.
Protesters shut down LA freeway in defiance of Trump's mass deportation plans. Despite the scale of the protest, no arrests were reported. A police officer was shot dead in northwestern Pakistan while on his way to protect polio vaccinators on the first day of a nationwide immunisation drive. The attack took place in Jamrud town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, when two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire, killing the officer instantly, police official Zarmat Khan said.
