Still awaiting thanks for stopping Islamists in Sahel, Macron says
France’s President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was still waiting for Africa’s Sahel states to thank Paris for stopping them falling into the hands of militants and ...
France’s Sarkozy goes on trial over alleged Libyan campaign financing
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday, on charges of having received millions of euros in illegal financing from Libya’s late strongman Muammar Gaddafi for his ...
UK’s Starmer defends record over child sex gangs after Musk criticism
Keir Starmer defended his work as Britain’s top prosecutor on Monday, refusing to mention U.S. billionaire Elon Musk by name but addressing Musk’s criticism that, long before ...
US Congress to meet to certify Trump’s election, four years after Capitol riot
The U.S. Congress is set to meet on Monday to formally certify Republican Donald Trump’s election as president, exactly four years after a mob of his supporters stormed ...
Three Israelis killed in northern West Bank shooting, army pursuing suspects
Three Israelis were killed on Monday and several injured in a shooting attack on a car and bus near the town of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israel’s ...
Britain faces snow and flooding as travel disrupted
Britain was bracing for more snow, rain and flooding on Monday as severe weather disrupted road and rail travel and forced airports in northern England to temporarily close their runways, ...
Warring sides battle in western Russia as Moscow reports gains in Ukraine
Russia said on Monday its forces had made important gains in eastern Ukraine while continuing to fend off a new Ukrainian offensive inside the Kursk region of western Russia, where ...
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Winter storm hits central US, barrels toward Washington
A winter storm brought snow, ice and freezing temperatures to a broad swath of the U.S. on Sunday, with some 60 million people across more than a dozen states from ...
UK shopper numbers fell last year by most since pandemic
The number of people visiting British shops last year fell by 2.2 per cent, the biggest drop since 2021, industry data has shown, adding to signs of a broader economic slowdown.
The ...
Erdogan expects support from Syria in Turkey’s battle with PKK
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Syria’s new leadership is determined to root out separatists there, as Ankara said its military had “neutralised” 32 members of the outlawed ...
Syrian caretaker government to hike public sector salaries by 400% next month
By Riham Alkousaa
Syria’s finance minister said on Sunday the government would hike salaries for many public sector employees by 400% next month after completing an administrative restructuring of ministries ...
Ukraine launches new attack in Kursk region of western Russia
By Mark Trevelyan and Lucy Papachristou
Russia said on Sunday that Ukraine had launched a new attack in the Kursk region, an area of western Russia from which Russian troops ...
Israeli strikes kill 14 people in Gaza, mediators strive for a truce deal
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 14 Palestinians in three separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, taking the weekend death toll to 102, Palestinian ...
Italy’s Meloni boosts ties with Trump in surprise Florida visit
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made a surprise trip to Florida to meet with Donald Trump late on Saturday, as the key European leader sought to buttress ties with the ...
Austrian conservatives pick new leader after chancellor quits
By Francois Murphy
The leadership of Austria’s ruling conservatives held a crisis meeting on Sunday to pick a successor to Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who announced his resignation on Saturday ...
Syria’s new Islamist rulers urge US to lift sanctions during visit to Doha
By Nayera Abdallah, Menna AlaaElDin and Andrew Mills
Syria’s new Islamist rulers said on Sunday that U.S. sanctions on Syria were an obstacle to the war-torn country’s ...
Dozens of flights cancelled at Netherlands’ Schiphol due to bad weather
At least 70 flights have been cancelled and several others delayed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport due to wintery weather, a spokesperson said on Sunday.
He said snow plows started clearing ...
Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis dies
Former Prime Minister Costas Simitis passed away at dawn in Greece at the age of 88.
Simitis was transferred, without a pulse, at dawn to the Corinth Hospital, from his cottage ...
US plans $8 billion arms sale to Israel
The administration of President Joe Biden has notified Congress of a proposed $8 billion arms sale to Israel, a U.S. official said on Friday, with Washington maintaining support for its ...
Briton killed in New Orleans attack was stepson of former royal nanny
British police have named one of the victims of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans as Edward Pettifer, a 31-year-old from London whose stepmother was a nanny ...
Russia clears beaches after Black Sea oil spill, declares emergency in Crimea
Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of ...
Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza Strip as new ceasefire talks begin
An Israeli military strike killed 12 people in a house in Gaza City early on Saturday, bringing the death toll from strikes across Gaza to 65 over the last day, Palestinian medics ...
Alcohol cancer risk warning may face tough road
President-elect Donald Trump and his nominee to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., do not drink and have been outspoken about the ...