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President Joe Biden is in Northern Ireland to participate in marking the 25th anniversary of an agreement that helped the country achieve peace

President Joe Biden arrived Tuesday in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on a trip that will also take him to the Republic of Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and visit his ancestral homeland.

Following his call for Europe to maintain diplomatic distance from both the US and China, French President Emmanuel Macron begins a state visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday. He will address the Dutch Nexus institute in The Hague on the topic of European security and economic sovereignty.

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The US President will touch down in Air Force One in Belfast later on Tuesday

The leak of highly sensitive US documents – many of them related to the Ukraine conflict – presents a "very serious" risk to US national security, the Pentagon said Monday. The breach is being investigated by the Justice Department and appears to include secret information on the war in Ukraine…

Minecraft, the world's most popular game, played an unlikely role in the reported leak of classified US documents.

Senior leaders are quickly taking steps to mitigate the damage caused by the documents being leaked online, a top Pentagon spokesman says.

White House national security spokesman says it remains unknown if document leak has been contained as probe continues.