Death toll from Iran approaches 2,600, rights group reports
The death toll from unrest in Iran climbed to almost 2,600, a rights group said on Wednesday, as Tehran stepped up diplomatic contacts with U.S.-allies in the region over ...
UK drops plans for mandatory digital ID for workers in latest U-turn
LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Britain is set to drop plans to make it mandatory for workers to hold a digital identity document, The Times newspaper, the BBC and other media reported ...
US files for warrants to seize dozens more Venezuela-linked oil tankers
LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. government has filed for court warrants to seize dozens more tankers linked to the Venezuelan oil trade, four sources familiar with the matter said, ...
Trump urges Iranians to keep protesting, says ‘help is on its way’
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Iranians on Tuesday to keep protesting and said help was on the way, without giving details, as Iran’s clerical establishment pressed its crackdown ...
US Supreme Court weighs the legality of transgender sports bans
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday over the legality of laws banning transgender athletes from participating on female sports teams amid escalating efforts by dozens of states ...
Hamas to elect first leader since Sinwar killed by Israel
Hamas is expected to elect a new leader this month, two sources in the group told Reuters, filling the role left vacant since Israel killed Yahya Sinwar in 2024 despite concerns ...
Russian strikes on Ukraine knock out heat and power
Russia struck cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight in one of its biggest attacks of the New Year so far, killing at least four people and knocking out ...
Iranians tap Musk’s Starlink to skirt internet blackout, sources say
Some Iranians are still using Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service despite a nationwide communications blackout, three people inside the country said, the latest example of Starlink being used ...
Ice closes Vienna airport, disrupts flights in Prague
Icy conditions have forced staff to close Vienna International Airport until at least 11 a.m. (1000 GMT) on Tuesday and limit fights at Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport, both hubs said.
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French farmers stage new Paris protest in bid to halt Mercosur deal
French farmers drove tractors into Paris on Tuesday for the second time in a week to protest against an EU-Mercosur trade deal they say threatens local agriculture by creating unfair ...
Trump piles on the pressure with 25% tariff threat on countries trading with Iran
President Donald Trump said on Monday any country that does business with Iran will face a tariff rate of 25% on any trade with the U.S., as Washington weighs a ...
Apple, Google strike Gemini deal for revamped Siri in major win for Alphabet
Apple AAPL.O will use Google’s Gemini models for its revamped Siri coming later this year under a multi-year deal that deepens the tech giants’ alliance in the artificial ...
US charges man shot by Border Patrol agent in Portland
The Venezuelan man shot by a border patrol agent last week in Portland, Oregon, was charged on Monday with assaulting federal officers, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The department ...
UK investigates Musk’s X over Grok deepfake concerns
Britain’s media regulator launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday over concerns its Grok AI chatbot was creating sexually intimate deepfake images in violation of its ...
Myanmar made Rohingya lives a nightmare, Gambia tells genocide case
Gambia on Monday told judges at the United Nations’ top court that Myanmar targeted minority Muslim Rohingya for destruction and made their lives a nightmare in a landmark case accusing ...
Supertankers sailing to pick up Venezuelan oil for China make u-turn
Two China-flagged supertankers that were sailing to Venezuela to pick up debt-paying crude cargoes amid the US oil embargo on the OPEC country have made u-turn and are now heading ...
Morocco declares end of seven-year drought after winter rains
Morocco’s seven-year drought has come to an end after abundant rainfall this winter, Water Minister Nizar Baraka said on Monday.
Rainfall levels so far this winter are up 95% from ...
Pakistan and Indonesia closing in on jets and drones defence deal
Indonesia’s defence minister met Pakistan’s air force chief in Islamabad to discuss a potential deal that includes the sale of combat jets and killer drones to Jakarta, three ...
US military takeover of Greenland ‘would be the end of NATO’
The European Union can help provide security for Greenland, should Denmark request it, the European Commissioner for Defence and Space said on Monday, warning that a U.S. military takeover ...
School resumes in tents under shadow of Gaza’s ‘yellow line’
She spends her lessons in the wintry cold on the floor of a crowded tent, her teacher interrupted by regular gunfire and explosions from Israeli-controlled territory less than 1,000 metres away. ...
Trump ramps up attack on Fed’s Powell with criminal indictment threat
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has ramped up its pressure campaign on the Federal Reserve, threatening to indict Chair Jerome Powell over comments to Congress about a building ...
Former UK Chancellor Zahawi defects to Reform from Conservatives
Former British Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi defected to Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party from the Conservative Party on Monday, saying the country was broken and needed Farage as prime ...
Le Pen’s political fate hangs in the balance as French appeal begins
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen begins a crucial appeal in Paris this week that will determine whether she can run in the 2027 presidential election, after being barred from public ...
‘One Battle,’ ‘Hamnet’ claim top trophies at Hollywood’s Golden Globes ceremony
Dark comedy “One Battle After Another” and “Hamnet,” a story about William Shakespeare’s grief over the death of his son, claimed the top prizes on Sunday at the Golden ...