Putin warns Europe: if you want war, then Russia will defeat you
President Vladimir Putin warned European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would ...
Belgian police raid EU diplomatic service on fraud suspicion
Belgian police have raided the EU’s diplomatic service (EEAS) in Brussels and a training college, the College of Europe in Bruges, as part of a probe into suspected fraud, ...
Israel to receive possible hostage remains from Gaza for forensic tests
Israel said on Tuesday it was preparing to receive more possible hostage remains from Gaza via the Red Cross and would send them for forensic tests.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’...
Pope urges crowds in Lebanon to fix troubled country at last overseas event
Pope Leo made a fervent appeal to Lebanon’s diverse communities to unite to solve the crisis-hit country’s myriad problems at a Mass on Tuesday attended by tens of ...
Starmer says he is proud of budget and public was not misled
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he was proud of last week’s budget, defending not only what he described as the “fair choices” in it but also ...
Israel’s Netanyahu seeks pardon in years-long corruption trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the country’s president on Sunday for a pardon in his years-long corruption trial, arguing that criminal proceedings were hindering his ability to govern ...
Tom Stoppard, playwright who dazzled with verbal gymnastics, dies aged 88
“What’s it about?” was a frequent response from bemused theatre-goers to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, Tom Stoppard’s first stage triumph.
Tired of being asked, Stoppard is said ...
Pope Leo takes peace message to Lebanon, target of Israeli strikes
Pope Leo arrived in Lebanon on Sunday, where he is expected to appeal for peace in a country that is a continued target of Israeli air strikes, on the second ...
Hong Kong mourns victims of blaze that killed 128 and counting
Hong Kong on Saturday mourned the 128 people known to have died in a massive fire at a high-rise apartment complex, a toll that is likely to rise with 150 still missing ...
Israeli attack kills two children in Gaza, medics say
An Israeli attack killed two children in Gaza on Saturday, medics and relatives said, in violence that has persisted in the Palestinian enclave despite a fragile ceasefire.
The children’s ...
Indonesia flood death toll climbs to 303 amid cyclone devastation, disaster agency says
The death toll from floods and landslides following cyclonic rains in the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 303, the head of the country’s disaster mitigation agency said on ...
Pope removes shoes but doesn’t pray on visit to Istanbul’s Blue Mosque
Pope Leo visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Saturday, removing his shoes in a sign of respect but not appearing to pray in his first visit as leader of the ...
Rescuers step up recovery operations as Southeast Asia flood deaths reach 321
The death toll from floods across large swathes of Southeast Asia rose to at least 321 on Friday, with authorities working to rescue stranded citizens, restore power and communications and coordinate ...
Paris’ Louvre raises prices for non-EU tourists to fund renovations
The Louvre in Paris is raising ticket prices by 45% for most non-European Union tourists to help finance renovations of the museum, whose deteriorating state was laid bare by the theft ...
Zelenskiy’s ‘man for all seasons’ ensnared in corruption probe
Ask Ukrainians who the country’s most powerful figure is after the president and many will say Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff and a key negotiator during four years ...
Putin says it’s senseless to sign documents with ‘illegitimate’ Ukrainian leadership
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Ukrainian leadership illegitimate and said it was senseless to sign any documents with them.
He said the Kyiv leadership lost legitimacy after ...
British globe trekker faces changed world on final leg of 27-year journey
Karl Bushby, a British ex-paratrooper who set out in 1998 to walk around the world, is on the final stretch of his 27-year-long trek home, and trying to cope with social ...
UK net migration drops by two-thirds as government rolls out tougher policies
Long-term net migration to Britain fell by more than two-thirds in the year to June, official data showed on Thursday, extending a downward trend fuelled by tougher government policies to ...
Two National Guard members shot near White House, with Trump in Florida
Two members of the National Guard were shot on Wednesday in a busy area near the White House in downtown Washington, officials said, putting the building into lockdown with President ...
Hong Kong inferno puts spotlight on risky bamboo scaffolding
Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in three decades has spotlighted its risky use of flammable bamboo scaffolding and mesh for building work in a tradition dating back centuries to mainland ...
European lawmakers seek EU-wide minimum age to access AI chatbots, social media
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a non-binding resolution which calls for a default minimum age of 16 to access social media and AI chatbots to ensure “age-appropriate online engagement”.
Regulated ...
Palestinian economy suffers worst-ever collapse
The two-year Gaza war and economic restrictions in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have triggered the worst collapse in the Palestinian economy on record, wiping out decades of growth, a United ...
After 26 years in prison, PKK leader Ocalan has key role in Turkey peace process
After 26 years in a Turkish prison, Abdullah Ocalan is carving out a key role for himself as Ankara tries to end his outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party’s four-decade insurgency.
In ...
UK Chancellor takes tax burden to post-war high to bolster finances
British Chancellor British finance minister Rachel Reevesannounced a big tax-raising budget on Wednesday that will take more money from workers, people saving for a pension and from investors to give ...