Ukrainian negotiators will visit the United States this weekend for talks on Washington’s plan to end the war in Ukraine, a senior official briefed on the matter told AFP Friday. “The delegation is planning to meet with the American side...
The African Union has suspended Guinea-Bissau following this week’s coup in the west African country, the AU Commission head told AFP on Friday. The AU decided “to suspend Guinea-Bissau from its bodies with immediate effect”...
Dozens of women with breast cancer in a swathe of northeast England suffered “physical and psychological harm” due to “delayed diagnosis, unnecessary procedures or missed opportunities”, a scathing report has found. The...
Wall Street and key European equity markets rose on Friday in thin US holiday weekend trading, with a key US exchange suffering an outage. Trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of the world’s major operators, was halted by a...
An Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members will be charged with first-degree murder, a US official said Friday, in an escalation of charges following the incident that left one Guardsman dead. The US attorney for Washington...
A NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny “zaps” whipped up by the dust storms constantly sweeping across the planet. Scientists have long debated whether...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday removed his powerful chief of staff and top negotiator, Andriy Yermak, after detectives raided his house as part of a sweeping corruption probe. Yermak’s removal deals a serious blow to...
Hungary’s Viktor Orban defied the EU Friday by promising Vladimir Putin he will keep buying Russian oil, as he attended a Kremlin meeting held in the midst of a diplomatic push to end Moscow’s Ukraine offensive. Orban — in power in...
Romania’s defence minister resigned on Friday after saying he made a “mistake” on his CV about his university education, as controversy swirled over alleged lies on his resume. Ionut Mosteanu — who has admitted to writing on...
A blaze that tore through a Hong Kong high-rise residential complex and killed more than 120 people was extinguished on Friday, as investigators pointed to construction netting catching fire as the likely cause. The inferno — the Chinese...
Russia added Human Rights Watch to its list of “undesirable” organisations on Friday, effectively banning the New York-based pressure group from operating on its territory. Russia did not give a reason for the decision, and Human Rights...
Should children be using beauty face masks? Dermatologists say no, but a growing number of companies are targeting a new generation of kids who have grown up with TikTok skincare and make-up routines. The cosmetics industry and parts of the internet...
Sri Lanka deployed the military for relief and rescue operations on Friday as the death toll from floods and landslides across the island rose to 56, with another 21 people missing. Helicopters, navy boats and thousands of troops are being used to...
Flooding and landslides across Indonesia’s Sumatra island have killed at least 84 people this week and dozens more are missing, rescue officials said Friday. Indonesia, along with neighbouring Malaysia and Thailand have been hit by severe...
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would suspend migration from what he called “third world countries”, a day after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington, killing one. His social media...
