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By Katharine Jackson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration is prepared to defend in court the sweeping asylum policy put into place at the U.S.-Mexico border last week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.

Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday that generally bars migrants who illegally cross the southern border from claiming asylum and allows authorities to quickly... (continue reading...)

CAIRO (Reuters) - The main hospital in Sudan's al-Fashir city has been attacked and put out of service, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which supports the facility, told Reuters on Sunday, while local volunteers blamed the incident on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The city, in the Darfur region of northwestern Sudan, is home to more than 1.8 million residents and displaced people, and is the latest front in a war between the Sudanese army... (continue reading...)

BERLIN (Reuters) - The far-right Alternative for Germany shrugged off a string of scandals to make solid gains and take second place in Sunday's EU election, according to first exit polls, a result that, if conmfirmed, would underscore the party's resilience ahead of next year's federal election.

The forecast comes as Germany's party landscape undergoes its biggest upheaval in decades, with new populist parties vying to take space vacated by the... (continue reading...)

VIENNA (Reuters) - The far-right Freedom Party has probably won the European Parliament election in Austria for the first time, according to a polling-based "trend forecast" for Austrian broadcasters and news agency APA published when polls closed on Sunday.

The forecast, carried out by three pollsters for national broadcaster ORF, Puls 24 TV and APA, proved accurate in the last European Parliament election in Austria. This time it showed the Freedom... (continue reading...)

BELLEAU, France (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he had reached an agreement with French President Emmanuel Macron on the use of profits from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.

Asked if the two men had discussed the issue and whether they had come up with an agreement, Biden replied "Yes and yes."

The Group of Seven nations and the European Union are considering how to use profits generated by Russian assets... (continue reading...)