International

Europe rejects blackmail, draws red lines as Trump pushes US control of Greenland

European leaders harden their stance against US President Donald Trump after he revived demands to take over Greenland, testing NATO unity and transatlantic ties.

Hollywood and the public bid a final goodbye to fashion icon Valentino at a Rome funeral

Global fashion celebrities joined the public on Friday morning to say goodbye to iconic designer Valentino at his funeral service in Rome, at the central Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri.

Pakistani court sentences human rights lawyers to 17 years over social media posts

Pakistani human rights lawyers Zainab Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha were sentenced to 17 years over social media posts deemed anti-state, drawing condemnation from international rights groups and activists.

‘Europe looks lost’: Zelenskyy criticises allies, says Ukrainians face a ‘Groundhog Day’ of war and delay

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday blasted the EU's lack of "political will" in countering Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a fiery address criticising some of Kyiv's top allies at the World Economic Forum.

Hundreds of thousands left without power in Russian occupied southern Ukraine as energy war intensifies

Hundreds of thousands in Russian occupied parts of southern Ukraine were left without power on Sunday, according to Kremlin installed authorities there. Meanwhile, Moscow has kept up its hammering of Ukraine’s energy grid in overnight attacks that killed at least two people, according to Ukrainian officials.

Palestinian committee holds first meeting in Cairo to govern Gaza under US supervision

The Palestinian committee set to govern Gaza under U.S. supervision met for the first time Friday in Cairo, as its leader pledged to get to work quickly to improve conditions there.

Sudan peace talks resume in Cairo as Egypt, UN and US push for humanitarian truce

Sudan peace efforts resumed in Cairo on Wednesday as Egypt, the United Nations and the United States called for the warring parties to agree to a nationwide humanitarian truce, as the war between the army and its rival paramilitary nears the three year mark.

Ukraine targets Russian oil depot after Moscow unleashes new hypersonic strike on Kyiv

A Ukrainian drone attack ignited a fire at an oil storage facility in Russia’s Volgograd region as Moscow and Kyiv intensify strikes on energy infrastructure amid escalating winter warfare.

Petro calls US raid on Venezuela ‘abhorrent’ as Colombia enters dangerous standoff with Trump

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro sharply condemns the US raid on Venezuela, escalating his standoff with Donald Trump and putting Washington’s closest Latin American ally at risk amid threats of sanctions, tariffs and strained security cooperation. Read here

Hungarian Director Béla Tarr, who helmed 'The Turin Horse', dies at 70

The celebrated Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, director of such works as “Sátántangó” and “The Turin Horse” and the recipient of numerous awards for his long and often darkly comic films, has died at 70.

Tense calm grips Venezuela a day after US captures President Maduro

A tense calm grips Venezuela after President Nicolás Maduro’s capture by US forces with shuttered streets in Caracas, damaged buildings outside the capital and widespread uncertainty over the country’s political future.

European security advisers arrive in Kyiv as US-led Ukraine peace push intensifies

European national security advisers arrived in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss the latest peace proposals as a US led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4 year old war in Ukraine intensifies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders meet next week.

‘Rioters must be put in their place,’ says Iran's Khamenei as death toll rises to at least 10

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei acknowledged the economic demands of protesters, while warning against what he described as rioting and insisting that “rioters must be put in their place.”

From the American dream to poverty: Christmas, unemployment and the long road back for Venezuelans deported from the US

This was not the Christmas that Mariela Gómez would have imagined a year ago. Or the one that thousands of other Venezuelan immigrants would have thought. But Donald Trump returned to the White House in January and quickly ended their American dream.