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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Trump demands end to North Sea ‘windmills’ in swipe at UK energy policy
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday criticised the British government’s energy policy with a demand the country “open up” the ageing North Sea oil and gas basin and ...
US surgeon general urges cancer warnings for alcoholic drinks
Alcoholic drinks should carry a warning about cancer risks on their label, the U.S. Surgeon General said on Friday in a move that could signal a shift toward more ...
Wounded Ukrainian soldiers find solace in Greek monasteries
The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war – one with a head scar, another with both legs amputated above the knee, some with invisible mental wounds from a ...
Britain vows – again – to reform social care, but no plan until 2028
Britain’s latest plan to overhaul increasingly costly care for older and disabled adults will not be delivered until 2028 at the earliest, the government said on Friday, as it announced ...
Turkish inflation falls more than expected to 44 per cent
Turkish inflation was lower than expected at 44.38 per cent annually and 1.03 per cent on a monthly basis in December, data showed on Friday, in a month in which the central ...
Jurassic highway: Hundreds of dinosaur footprints found in UK quarry
Researchers have uncovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints dating back to the middle Jurassic era in a quarry in Oxfordshire, southern England, showing that reptiles such as the nine-metre predator Megalosaurus ...
Gaza population down by six per cent since start of war
An Israeli hostage held by Gaza’s Islamic Jihad militant group has tried to take his own life, the spokesperson for the movement’s armed wing said in a video ...
Police probe motive in New Orleans truck rampage
Investigators in New Orleans were searching on Thursday for what motivated a U.S. Army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck to plow into a crowd of New ...
Russian gas era in Europe ends as Ukraine stops transit
Russian gas exports via Soviet-era pipelines running through Ukraine came to a halt on New Year’s Day, marking the end of decades of Moscow’s dominance over Europe’s ...
Romania, Bulgaria fully join EU’s borderless Schengen zone
Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union’s Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose residents can ...
Puerto Rico’s power grid collapses
Puerto Ricans were without electricity on New Year’s Eve after a grid failure left nearly all of the island without power, although energy was slowly being restored.
Around 58 per ...
Breakaway Moldovan region Transnistria cuts heating and hot water after Russia stops gas flow
The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria cut heating and hot water supplies to households on Wednesday after Russia stopped supplying gas via Ukraine.
“There is no heating or hot water,” ...
Israel warns Houthis risk sharing same fate as Hamas, Hezbollah
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday issued what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt missile attacks on Israel, saying they ...
Putin says in New Year address that Russia will ‘move forward’ in 2025
President Vladimir Putin told Russians in a New Year address that the country would move forward with confidence in 2025.
Putin’s seasonal message was being broadcast at midnight in each ...
Gareth Southgate, Sadiq Khan, Keely Hodgkinson named in Britain’s New Year honours
Former England boss Gareth Southgate, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Paris Olympics gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson were among the hundreds named in King Charles’s New Year honours list published ...