Serbian police commander arrested over alleged murder coverup
The commander of the Belgrade Police Directorate, Veselin Milic, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of concealing a murder and assisting in the disposal of a victim’s body, according ...
Netanyahu says Israel now controls 60 per cent of Gaza Strip
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israeli forces now control 60 per cent of the Gaza Strip, marking the first official confirmation of an expansion in territory held ...
Greek probe finds suspected Ukrainian sea drone lost course after malfunction
Greek investigators believe a military sea drone found on a Greek island last week went off course due to a technical failure and may not have travelled far, sources said ...
Erdogan calls on Turkic states to strengthen ties with Turkish Cypriots
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Turkic states to strengthen their ties with the Turkish Cypriots as he attended an informal Organisation of Turkic States summit in ...
Trump says he is losing patience with Iran
U.S. President Donald Trump said his patience with Iran was running out and that Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed that Tehran must reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but ...
Hantavirus outbreak tests post-Covid playbook
A rodent-borne virus with a scary name. A mid-ocean cruise ship in quarantine. Several people dead and more falling sick.
It is no wonder that an outbreak of the Andes ...
Iran has ‘no trust’ in the US, will negotiate only if it is serious
Tehran has “no trust” in the U.S. and is interested in negotiating with Washington only if it is serious, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday, as ...
Investors take fright as left-leaning candidate secures path to UK parliament
Britain’s borrowing costs surged on Friday after Andy Burnham, a regional mayor on the left of the governing Labour Party, secured a possible path to challenge Prime Minister Keir ...
Trump leaves Beijing with few wins but warm words for Xi
U.S. President Donald Trump left China on Friday with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war, despite two days spent heaping ...
Greece asks EU to step in over ‘unlawful fishing’ by Turkey in east Mediterranean
Greece on Friday asked the European Union to step in and stop what it said was unlawful fishing and violation of maritime law by Turkish fishermen in the eastern Mediterranean ...
Israelis mark capture of East Jerusalem with Old City parade chanting ‘death to Arabs’
Thousands of Israeli nationalists marched on Thursday through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s walled Old City under heavy security, in an annual event marking Israel’s capture of the ...
European rail travel hits 8.7 billion trips as passenger demand surges
People in the European Union took 8.7 billion rail trips throughout the previous year, according to a report from Eurostat.
This massive volume of travel amounted to a total of 444.5 billion ...
CDC says no hantavirus cases in US, 41 people being monitored
There are no confirmed cases in the United States of the Andes hantavirus outbreak that killed three people aboard a luxury cruise ship this month, U.S. health officials said ...
Bosnian Serb general Mladic’s early release denied by UN court
A U.N. war crimes court said on Thursday it had denied a bid for early release by Ratko Mladic, the 84-year-old Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide and crimes ...
Israel to sue New York Times over article on rape of Palestinian detainees
Israel plans to sue The New York Times and one of its journalists for defamation over an article that said Israeli soldiers, prison guards and settlers had used widespread sexual ...
Italy in the Hormuz crisis: diplomacy, naval missions and food security
By Antonio Tajani, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy
Since the outbreak of the war between Iran and the United States, Italy has acted together with its European partners, the ...
Senior UK minister resigns, calls for a leadership contest to oust PM
Labour’s Wes Streeting resigned as health minister on Thursday to call for a leadership contest to oust Keir Starmer, accusing the British prime minister of overseeing political drift and ...
Philippine politician wanted by ICC makes ‘escape’ after Senate chaos
A top Philippine politician wanted by the International Criminal Court was no longer taking refuge at the Senate after what his wife called an “escape”, the Senate president said on ...
New attacks reported on ships near Hormuz
U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the Iran war with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, while new attacks on vessels near the Strait of Hormuz brought ...
Starmer faces possible leadership challenge, vows to fight on
Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced the increasing prospect of a leadership challenge on Thursday, with his health minister reported to be ready to resign and his former deputy calling on ...
Russia pounds Ukraine in heaviest wartime drone attack over two days
Russia carried out its largest aerial attack over a two-day period since the start of its war in Ukraine, pounding the capital Kyiv and other cities with hundreds of drones, ...
Protests flare across Havana as power cuts deepen amid US blockade
Protests broke out across the Cuban capital of Havana on Wednesday evening as the city confronted its worst rolling blackouts in decades amid a U.S. blockade that has starved ...
Violent storm tears through India’s most populous state, killing over 100
A violent storm bringing rain and hail scythed across India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, killing more than 100 people, rescue officials said on Thursday, as the chief minister ...
CHINA-US SUMMIT
Xi warns Trump that mishandling of Taiwan could lead to conflict
China’s Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump that trade talks were making progress at the start of a two-day summit on Thursday but warned that disagreement over Taiwan could ...