US President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of both houses of Congress. This was his first speech before the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate since returning to power, and during his presentation he also mentioned Serbia.
This happened while you were sleeping. Here's what global agencies recorded overnight from Friday to Saturday. Tens of thousands of people responded to the students' call for a general strike and protest marches organized on Friday in several Serbian cities.
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Serbia’s police raided the offices of at least four civil society organizations as part of a probe into allegations of abuse of U.S.
The Serbian parliament erupted into chaos Tuesday as opposition lawmakers set off smoke grenades and other countermeasures to block last-minute passage of a series of laws initiated by the outgoing government.
Shuttering the agency is unlikely as it would require congressional approval and some Democratic votes to break the Senate filibuster.
The anti-diversity initiatives are visible in the chamber. Trump removed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown, a Black man; and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the chief of the Navy and first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs, whom Hegseth had described as a “DEI hire.”
Trump spoke for one hour, 39 minutes, and 32 seconds, a record, according to The American Presidency Project. Measured by time, Clinton's address in 2000 is the second-longest, at 1 hour, 28 minutes, and 49 seconds.