Trump says he plans to meet with North Korea’s Kim this year
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, and said the Asian nation held 57 “very powerful” nuclear ...
Turkish Cypriots, Turkey sign ‘additional’ fibreoptic internet deal
The Turkish government and the Turkish Cypriot authorities on Wednesday described what was described as an “additional protocol” deal, which aims to iron out creases in the initial deal signed ...
New Ukrainian defence minister takes office as ousted predecessor calls for wartime elections
Ukrainian lawmakers appointed a new defence minister on Wednesday, hours after his ousted predecessor dealt a major blow to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with a call for elections in wartime.
Yevhenii ...
Russia and Ukraine swap 103 prisoners of war each
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 103 prisoners of war each, officials from both sides said on Wednesday, with Ukrainian intelligence saying another swap was expected before the end of the month.
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Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies launch probe ahead of key defence minister vote
Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies launched a special operation against lawmakers and presidential advisers on Wednesday, hours before a key vote in parliament for a new defence minister aimed at cementing a ...
Europe’s old growth model is ‘eroding’, warns ECB president Lagarde
Europe’s post-war economic model is “eroding” and unlikely to return in its previous form, European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday, urging the bloc to make ...
At least 23 die as bus and truck collide in Brazil’s Parana, police say
At least 23 people died in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the BR-373 highway in Brazil’s southern state of Parana in the early hours of ...
Turkey rejects Israeli claims over military role in Syria
Turkey firmly rejected on Wednesday what it called “untenable allegations” by Israel regarding its military position in Syria, after Israel bombed a Syrian air base near the Turkish border and ...
Iceland’s EU referendum could reshape Europe’s enlargement debate
European Union officials are hoping a referendum in Iceland on whether to restart membership talks will help boost support within Europe for other less wealthy states to join the bloc, ...
Swiss voters poised to reject tighter neutrality rules
Swiss voters look set to reject next month proposals for a tighter definition of neutrality that would prevent the country from issuing economic sanctions or cooperating with NATO, according to ...
At least nine killed in Kolkata hotel fire
At least nine people were killed, including a child, in a fire at a hotel in India’s eastern city of Kolkata on Wednesday, local police said.
The hotel is ...
Zelenskiy faces major challenge as ousted defence minister Fedorov demands wartime vote
Ukraine’s ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell address on Tuesday, arguing the nation faced a crisis of governance, in the biggest internal challenge ...
Harvard agrees to pay $53 million over morgue body-parts scandal
Harvard University has agreed to pay $53 million to resolve lawsuits by families alleging it mishandled the bodies of loved ones donated to its medical school and whose parts were then ...
Shipping through Strait of Hormuz slows amid reopening uncertainty
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed, data showed on Wednesday, as most shipowners avoided the key waterway because of a lack of clear signalling on its reopening from a ...
US sanctions International Criminal Court president, senior lawyer
The U. S. imposed sanctions on Tuesday on the International Criminal Court’s president and a senior trial lawyer at the court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
The move ...
Liberia agrees to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from US
Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. in the coming year, and an initial group of 20 deportees is expected to arrive in the West ...
Meta targeted children to boost Facebook and Instagram use, lawyer says as landmark trial begins
Meta Platforms META.O intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms, a lawyer for California said on Tuesday at the start of a trial that could ...
Ecuadorean diplomat nominated as candidate to lead UN
Ecuadorean diplomat Ivonne Baki has joined the race to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations, the eighth candidate to replace Portugal’s Antonio Guterres next year, documents showed ...
White House defends Trump’s ability to vote by mail
The White House on Tuesday defended U.S. President Donald Trump’s ability to vote by mail, after reports the president cast his ballot by mail in Florida’s Republican ...
US judge allows Trump to end thousands of Ethiopians’ deportation protections
A federal judge on Tuesday allowed U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to end legal protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in ...
Trump says no talks are taking place with Iran and none are scheduled
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that talks between the U.S. and Iran were neither taking place nor scheduled but the Strait of Hormuz was open, while Iran said ...
German court convicts Ukrainian man over parcel bomb plot tied to Russia
A German court convicted a Ukrainian man on Tuesday over what prosecutors described as a plot linked to Russian intelligence to detonate parcels in Europe designed to cause damage and ...
Saudi Arabia resumes oil loadings, sales from inside Strait of Hormuz
Saudi Aramco resumed oil loading from inside the Strait of Hormuz last week and has more tankers waiting to load as the state energy giant offers spot heavy crude cargoes, ...
Devastating Greek wildfires stoke fear of faulty power lines
Weeks before a devastating wildfire broke out on the power grid of a private wind farm in southern Greece in late July, nearby residents received a stark warning of the ...