Tesla March car registrations soar in key European markets
New registrations of Tesla TSLA.O cars tripled in France during March to just shy of a two-year-old record high, and more than doubled in the Nordic countries, data showed ...
Ryanair warns Middle East war, fuel shortages could hit summer season flights
Ryanair RYA.I CEO Michael O’Leary said jet fuel supply to Europe could be disrupted from June if the Middle East conflict does not end in the next month, ...
Pfizer, BioNTech halt US COVID vaccine study after recruitment struggles
Vaccine makers Pfizer PFE.N and BioNTech 22UAy.DE halted a large U.S. trial of their updated COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults aged 50 to 64, saying enrollment in the trials ...
Russia responds to proposed Easter ceasefire with strikes
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Russia had responded to Ukraine’s proposed Easter ceasefire by launching more strikes against his country’s energy infrastructure.
“Russia responds with ‘Shaheds’ (...
Italian bill offers incentives for fishing nets to shield Ukraine from drones
Italian senators have proposed a plan to incentivise fishing companies that donate discarded nets to help shield Ukraine from Russian drone attacks, a document showed on Wednesday.
Ukraine has this ...
Luigi Mangione’s federal trial over CEO killing delayed to October
A U.S. judge on Wednesday delayed by a few weeks the federal trial of Luigi Mangione on charges stemming from the killing of a health insurance executive in Manhattan, ...
Iran denies Trump’s ‘false and baseless’ claim it requested ceasefire
Iran has asked the United States for a ceasefire, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, adding Washington would consider this once the Strait of Hormuz ...
Beirut strike killed top Hezbollah commander, group says
IIsrael’s military on Wednesday said it killed senior Hezbollah commander Haj Youssef Ismail Hashem in the biggest blow to the group since a fresh bout of fighting with Israel ...
In historic first, Trump at Supreme Court for birthright citizenship arguments
With President Donald Trumppresent for some of the arguments, Supreme Court justices posed tough questions about the legality of his directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the U.S., a ...
Trump says US may exit Iran war soon and threatens to quit NATO, as oil crisis escalates
The United States will end its war on Iran fairly soon and could return for “spot hits” if needed, President Donald Trump told Reuters on Wednesday, hours before he was ...
NASA counts down for first crewed lunar mission in half a century
NASA is set to launch four astronauts as soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight around the moon, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and ...
Russia says its troops have taken full control of Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had taken full control of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, suggesting they had wrested control of a small sliver ...
Starmer calls for closer Europe ties as Iran war strains US relations
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that the global instability caused by the Iran war means Britain should align more closely with European allies on security and economy, following ...
Tisza expands lead over Orban in Hungary polls but many still undecided
Hungary’s centre-right Tisza party widened its lead over Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling Fidesz ahead of an April 12 parliamentary election, two opinion polls showed on Wednesday, although a ...
Italy recovers 19 bodies from boat
Italy’s coast guard recovered the bodies of 19 migrants and rescued 58 survivors from a boat that broke down while trying to cross to Europe from Libya, rescue officials and migrant ...
Tanker hit by two projectiles off Qatar, one unexploded, UKMTO says
A tanker struck off Qatar was hit by two projectiles, one causing a fire that has since been extinguished and another remaining unexploded in the vessel’s engine room, the ...
US eyes a swift end to war as fresh attacks hit Gulf states and Iran
President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the end of the war on Iran could be near, signalling potential for both direct talks with Tehran’s ...
American journalist kidnapped in Baghdad, police officials say
An American journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday and authorities are searching the city for her, two police officials said.
The Iraqi interior ministry confirmed the abduction of a ...
UN thanks Cyprus for latest Amalthea shipment
United Nations office for project service (Unops) executive director Jorge Moreira da Silva on Tuesday thanked Cyprus for providing its latest shipment of humanitarian aid to Gaza as part of ...
EU top diplomats in Ukraine to mark Bucha massacre
The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas and several EU foreign ministers arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of the Bucha massacre and to voice ...
US says coming days in Iran war will be decisive, urges Tehran to make a deal
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday the next few days in the war against Iran would be decisive and warned Tehran that the conflict would intensify if ...
Spain’s PM labels Israel’s death penalty law ‘step towards apartheid’
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned as a “step towards apartheid” Monday’s approval by the Israeli parliament of a law that would impose death sentence for Palestinians convicted ...
Trump urges countries seeking oil to go to Strait of Hormuz and ‘just take it’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged countries that did not help in the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran to buy American oil and go to the Strait of Hormuz ...
King Charles to pay state visit to US as UK seeks to mollify Trump
King Charles will make a state visit to the United States in late April, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday, a high-profile trip that the British government hopes will help to ...