Israeli arms exports have reached an all-time high for the fifth consecutive year, hitting more than $19 billion in 2025 driven by missile, rocket and air defense systems, the defense ministry announced Tuesday. Israel is among the world’s leading...
In a vaulted brick cellar beneath a Tbilisi wine factory, rows of dust-caked bottles stretched into the gloom behind iron bars, stacked floor to ceiling in rusting metal racks. The two-century-old trove of 20,000 rare bottles of wine, some linked to...
Iran said on Tuesday it will hold a three-day state funeral for late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, killed by US-Israeli strikes on the first day of the Middle East war, at a date to be announced. Ali Khamenei, who led the Islamic republic for nearly...
Hezbollah will not accept a “partial ceasefire” with Israel, a senior official from the Iran-backed group said Tuesday, refusing to halt attacks against northern Israel in exchange for Israel sparing Beirut’s southern suburbs...
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a voluntary framework under which AI developers could share advanced models with the government before public release. The central provision allows companies such as OpenAI, Google...
The UK government on Tuesday set a legal target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 87 percent by 2040, an additional intermediate goal. The country has already fixed an objective of reducing emissions by 68 percent by 2030 and at least 81...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that a massive arms sale to Taiwan, opposed by Beijing, remains under review, adding that Washington’s policy on the self-ruled island was unchanged. “There was a second pending sale …...
Body camera footage of a dying student who was handcuffed by British police after being stabbed by a Sikh man and falsely accused of racially abusing his murderer sparked outrage Tuesday. Eighteen-year-old Henry Nowak is heard repeatedly telling...
A Swedish government commission proposed on Tuesday banning under-15s from accessing social media, adding to the list of countries considering similar measures to tackle the harms of the internet on children. “We are in the process of losing...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who was wounded in US-Israeli attacks and has not been seen in public since assuming office, is alive and increasingly active. “I think there are...
China is tightening its grip of the sharing of trade secrets, including cracking down on “job-hopping” employees and expanding confidentiality rules to cover data and algorithms, as it strives for technological self-reliance. Beijing has...
Planets beyond our solar system can have magnetic fields similar to those closer to home, astronomers said Tuesday after observing extreme winds on scorching worlds known as “hot Jupiters”. The observations offer the strongest evidence...
Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, will guarantee the Iran-backed group’s adherence to a “global ceasefire” with Israel, his adviser told AFP on Tuesday. Berri, who heads the Hezbollah-allied Amal party, has...
Eurozone inflation rose in May as the Middle East war sent energy costs soaring, official data showed Tuesday, reinforcing the likelihood of an interest rate increase in the single currency area. Consumer price rises accelerated to 3.2 percent last...
A bear attack left four people injured in two factories and a residential area in northern Japan’s Fukushima on Tuesday, police and media reports said. A record 13 people were killed by bears in Japan last year, and there has been a jump in...
