UK police find three children missing after theme park trip
British police said on Tuesday they had found three children aged 14, 9 and 7 who had been reported missing after a day out at a theme park 20 miles south west of London.
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Putin vows to support North Korea against the United States
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Tuesday to deepen trade and security ties with North Korea and to support it against the United States, as he headed to the reclusive ...
Far-right leader Bardella says he needs absolute majority to govern France effectively
The leader of France’s far-right National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, appealed to voters on Tuesday to hand his party an absolute majority in upcoming parliamentary elections so that it ...
French woman missing in Greece sent distress text
A 73-year-old French woman missing on the Greek island of Sikinos since Friday sent a distress message to her hotel before disappearing, the owner said on Tuesday.
A search is ...
UN human rights chief: situation in West Bank ‘drastically deteriorating’
Palestinians in the Israeli occupied West Bank and East Jerusalemare suffering a drastically worsening human rights environment, alongside “unconscionable death and suffering” in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. human ...
‘Normal’ Nigel Farage resonates with UK seaside voters
Nigel Farage’s brand of politics has found a home in the English seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, where voters described the right-wing party leader as a straight talker who, unlike ...
Saudi Arabia inflation remains at 1.6 per cent in May
Saudi Arabia’s annual inflation rate remained at 1.6 per cent for the third month running in May, government data showed on Sunday, with higher housing rents still the main driver.
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Asking prices for UK houses stagnate in June, Rightmove says
Asking prices for British homes coming to the market were flat this month, adding to signs of a recent cooling off in the housing market upswing, a survey from property ...
Standard Chartered loses bid to cut US sanctions breach claims from UK lawsuit
Standard Chartered on Monday lost a bid to cut from a London lawsuit allegations that it broke US sanctions against Iran in a more widespread way than it has previously ...
Russia sets closed espionage trial for US reporter Gershkovich
Russia’s espionage trial of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who denies charges of collecting secrets for the U.S. CIA, will be held behind closed doors, the ...
US-UK forces launch strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah and Kamaran Island, Houthi-run TV says
U.S. and British forces have carried out at least six airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah International Airport and four strikes on Kamaran Island near the port of Salif off ...
Campaigning takes off in France for snap election in two weeks
Campaigning kicked off on Monday for France’s snap parliamentary election, which opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will win ahead of a left-wing alliance, with President Emmanuel Macron’...
UK political parties continue to woo Brits abroad ahead of election
British political parties are continuing to attempt to win over British citizens abroad ahead of the country’s general election, which will take place on July 4.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir ...
EU countries approve landmark nature law after delays
European Union countries approved a flagship policy to restore damaged nature on Monday, after months of delay, making it the first green law to pass since European Parliament elections this ...
Farage promises tighter borders and tax cuts in election ‘contract’
Nigel Farage, whose entry into the election has damaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s faint hopes of victory, set out his policy plans on Monday, describing them as the first ...
Another tourist dead in Greece, others missing as heat toll rises
A 55-year-old American has been found dead on the Greek island of Mathraki, the police said on Monday, the third tourist death in a week following a period of unusually ...
Polls point to ‘electoral extinction’ for Sunak’s Conservatives
Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that the party faced “electoral extinction” ...
Kremlin derides outcome of Ukraine talks held without Russia
Russia said on Monday that a Swiss-hosted conference on the Ukraine war had produced negligible results and showed the futility of holding talks without Moscow.
The Kremlin was commenting on ...
FRENCH ELECTIONS
Campaigning kicks off in France for snap election, Le Pen’s far right party holds comfortable lead
Campaigning kicked off in France on Monday for a snap parliamentary election which opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will win, with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance coming ...
Netanyahu disbands his inner war cabinet, Israeli official says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said on Monday, in a widely expected move that came after the departure from government of ...
Railway collision in eastern India kills 15, injures several
A freight train smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India’s West Bengal state on Monday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police said, in ...
NATO in talks to put nuclear weapons on standby, Kremlin accuses alliance of escalation
The Kremlin said on Monday that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s remarks about talks on deploying more nuclear weapons were an escalation.
NATO is in talks to deploy more ...
Lies, damned lies and dodgy data: Voting in South Africa
From deepfake Donald Trumps endorsing key contenders, to claims the vote was rigged, South Africa is awash with online disinformation as political players thrash out a coalition deal after an ...
Ukraine summit sees hard road to peace as way forward uncertain
Western powers and their allies at a summit in Switzerland denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Sunday, but they failed to persuade major non-aligned states to join their final ...