Assange welcomed home in Australia a free man after US deal
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange landed to an ecstatic welcome in Australia on Wednesday after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law in a deal that sets him free from ...
Yacht crew expected to deny arson charges over fire on Greek island
The crew members of a yacht accused of starting a forest fire last week on the Greek island of Hydra are expected to deny arson charges when they appear before ...
Kremlin says ICC warrants for Russian military top brass are absurd
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it considered International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov to be absurd, adding that Russia did not recognise the court’...
NATO picks Netherlands’ Mark Rutte as next boss
NATO on Wednesday selected Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as NATO’s next boss, as the war in Ukraine rages on its doorstep and uncertainty hangs over the United States’ ...
Erdogan says Turkey stands with Lebanon as tensions rise with Israel
President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey stood in solidarity with Lebanon amid growing tensions with Israel on Wednesday and called on regional countries to also support Beirut.
Cross-border strains between Israel ...
Julian Assange
“Enough is enough”: How Australia’s quiet diplomacy led Julian Assange to freedom
After Julian Assange was released by a court on the remote U.S. Pacific territory of Saipan on Wednesday, ending a 14-year legal battle, the WikiLeaks founder’s lawyer first ...
french elections
France may be next test of the euro’s foundations
“Because it’s France” was how Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president at the time, explained Brussels’ decision in 2016 to give leeway to the large, founder member of the European Union ...
North Korea missile explodes in midair after launch, South’s military says
North Korea test-fired what appeared to be a hypersonic missile off its east coast on Wednesday, but it exploded in midair, South Korea’s military said.
The missile was launched ...
Russia starts closed-door espionage trial for U.S. reporter Gershkovich
A shaven-headed Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors on Wednesday in a Russian court where the U.S. journalist is accused of spying.
Prosecutors say the Wall Street ...
Downturn in UK factory orders eases but export demand weak
British manufacturing orders contracted in June at a reduced pace compared with a month earlier, despite a sharp drop in export orders, according to a survey from the Confederation of ...
On Gaza pier, US troops confront waves, destruction and aid backlog
Baking under the summer sun, U.S. troops find shelter in containers stationed on what is known as the “parking lot” of a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea that ...
Kenyan police arrive in Haiti as violence erupts around parliament back home
The first contingent of Kenyan police arrived in the Haitian capital on Tuesday to launch a peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean country that has been ravaged by gang violence just ...
Albania court upholds jailing of ethnic Greek mayor who won European Parliament seat
Beleris was arrested in May 2023 during a mayoral election campaign in his hometown of Himare which has an active ethnic Greek community. He subsequently won, but was never sworn in ...
Rights advocates welcome Assange release but say US case sets worrying precedent
Free speech organisations welcomed the news of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s release from jail in Britain but said the U.S. case had still set a bad precedent for ...
Police open fire on demonstrators attempting to storm Kenya parliament
Police opened fire on demonstrators trying to storm Kenya’s legislature on Tuesday, with at leastfive protesters killed and sections of the parliament building set ablaze as lawmakers inside passed ...
Russia bans distribution of dozens of EU news outlets in retaliatory step
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it was banning access inside Russia to the broadcasts of dozens of European Union media outlets in what it said was retaliation for ...
Iran’s presidential election dominated by Khamenei loyalists
Iranians choose a president on Friday in a tightly controlled election following Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash last month, with the outcome expected to influence the succession ...
Israel’s Supreme Court ends draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary into the military, a decree with the potential to divide Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’...
ICC issues arrest warrants for Russia’s Shoigu and Gerasimov
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Sergei Shoigu, the former Russian defence minister, and leading Russian general Valery Gerasimov on Tuesday for alleged crimes committed during Russia’s ...
Israel prefers diplomacy to end Hezbollah conflict, security adviser says
Israel will spend the coming weeks trying to resolve the conflict with Lebanon’s Iran-backed group Hezbollah and would prefer a diplomatic solution, Israel’s national security adviser said on ...
Ukraine war
Kremlin blames US for Ukraine strike on Crimea, warns of retaliation
The Kremlin squarely blamed the United States for an attack on Crimea with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles that killed at least four people and injured 151, and Moscow formally warned ...
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to be freed after pleading guilty to US espionage charge
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him ...
PACE adopts new sanctions against Russia, including LNG
European Union countries adopted a 14th package of sanctions on Russia that aims to close some loopholes and hits Russia’s gas exports for the first time, EU foreign ministers ...
Death toll rises to 19 after gunmen attack Russia’s Dagestan
The death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia’s mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 19 on Monday after gunmen went on the ...