French policing under scrutiny as student protest injuries mount
Fourteen-year-old Eden suffered a broken jaw and multiple smashed teeth when he was struck by a tear gas canister directed towards him at close range by a police officer last ...
Multiple people wounded in blast at Riyadh airport as airlines cancel more flights
Many people were wounded in a blast at Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday, according to two eyewitnesses and two people briefed on the matter, and travellers were evacuated from ...
Trump selects Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he has appointed Katie Zacharia, a communications adviser for his Truth Social platform, to serve as White House press secretary following Karoline ...
Russian attack on Ukrainian city kills 12, a day after Trump eases diesel sanctions on Moscow
Twelve people, including three children, were killed in a Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, a day after US President Donald Trump announced a deal ...
Zelenskiy says letting Russia sell diesel to US is ‘investment in war’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticised an accord on Friday between the US and Russia allowing Moscow to provide the US with diesel, calling it “an investment in a war that ...
Queen Camilla on the joy of reading despite king’s laughter and her tears
Britain’s Queen Camilla and King Charles spend their evenings reading before dinner, a quiet time which is interrupted by either his laughter or her tears, she told a documentary ...
Trump says Norway has ‘indelible stain’ for not awarding him Nobel Peace Prize
By Jacob Bogage
US President Donald Trump reiterated his complaints on Friday about not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, calling it a disgraceful and embarrassing decision that had left a ...
Germany’s firewall against the far-right AfD feels the heat
By James Mackenzie and Andreas Rinke
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s warning this week that extremism was entering Germany’s parliamentary system was the latest in a series of signs that ...
Isaias weakens to post-tropical cyclone after Florida landfall
By Rhea Rose Abraham and Rajveer Pardesi
Isaias weakened to a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday, having rapidly lost wind speed after hitting the Florida coast as a Category 2 hurricane, the ...
British long-term borrowing costs hit fresh multi-decade high on oil price surge
British long-term borrowing costs hit fresh multi-decade highs this week as part of a global bond selloff driven by a sharp rise in oil prices triggered by attacks on shipping ...
Higher interest rates expected to weigh on UK property market
The prospect of higher interest rates weighted on Britain’s housing market last month, with downward pressure on house prices increasing for the first time in four months, the Royal ...
Vance ‘unsure’ if Pentagon will proceed with execution livestream
Vice President JD Vance said on Friday he does not know whether the Pentagon will carry out its plan to livestream the execution by firing squad of the former US ...
Trump says Russia to immediately supply 300,000 tons of diesel fuel
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Russia had agreed to immediately supply over 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace after what Trump described as ...
8.2 earthquake hits Panama, tsunami warning issued
A strong 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck near the southern coast of Panama on Friday at a 10 km depth, according to the US Geological Survey, yet no damage was initially reported and ...
UN calls US plans to livestream execution ‘abhorrent’
The United Nations on Friday called US plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, “abhorrent” and said ...
UAE says Omani flydubai co-pilot planned suicide attack on Tel Aviv flight
An Omani flydubai co-pilot had planned to seize a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight and crash it into a terminal at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport on September 30 in a suicide attack ...
US sanctions International Criminal Court, hours after former judge wins Nobel
US President Donald Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting Washington on ...
Two men arrested at UK airbase used by US released on bail
British counter-terrorism police said on Friday that two Latvian men who were arrested on Thursday inside a Royal Air Force base in eastern England that is used by US forces ...
Protesters clash with police in Brussels as unions and students march
A small group of protesters clashed with police in Brussels on Friday as union members, joined by hundreds of students, marched as part of a national strike against planned government ...
EU commissioner says recent Turkish actions widen gap with its EU membership goal
Turkey is moving further away from its objective of joining the European Union because of its recent efforts to crack down on the LGBTQ+ community and limit media freedoms, the ...
Almost all Gaza residents need shelter as El Niño threatens flooding
Almost all of Gaza’s population need tents or help with shelter ahead of winter, with the El Niño weather phenomenon expected to bring heavier rainfall, while supplies remain ...
Mountbatten-Windsor benefits from £302,000 compensation on his mansion lease
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of Britain’s King Charles, has benefited from £302,000 in compensation after he was forced to end his mansion lease early over revelations about his ties ...
Merz ‘outraged’ that German former Chancellor Schroeder attended Putin’s birthday
Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz is “deeply outraged” by former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s visit to Vladimir Putin’s home to celebrate the Russian president’s birthday this week, a ...
Two men deny carrying out surveillance for Iran of Israeli embassy in UK
Two men accused of being tasked by Iran to carry out hostile surveillance on the Israeli Embassy in London, Britain’s oldest synagogue and other Israeli or Jewish targets pleaded ...