Serbia and Sweden have urged their citizens in Iran to leave the country after US President Donald Trump threatened military action over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme. The Balkan nation had already invited Serbian nationals in mid...
California Governor Gavin Newsom called Friday for refund checks to be issued to American families and businesses after the US Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were illegal. Newsom, who is widely expected to be a...
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier entered the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, further boosting American firepower in a region that has seen a massive military buildup ahead of potential strikes against Iran. Below, AFP examines key US military...
US President Donald Trump will visit China from March 31 to April 2, a White House official confirmed to AFP. Following a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 4, the Republican leader said that the US relationship with the...
The level of intelligence that Ukraine is receiving from the United States has not diminished, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday, despite Washington having cut back other forms of military and financial support under Donald Trump. “We...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said he wants foreign troops earmarked to be deployed in Ukraine in case of a ceasefire to be positioned close to the front. “We would like to see the contingent closer to the front line. Of...
Washington and Moscow are both exerting pressure on Kyiv to give up the embattled Donbas region of Ukraine to the Kremlin in any deal to end the four-year war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday in an exclusive interview with AFP...
Russia plans to replace Moscow’s Gulag museum with a new exhibition documenting Nazi crimes against the Soviet Union during World War II, officials said Friday, the latest move in a crackdown on institutions documenting Soviet-era repression...
The mayor of Medellin on Friday touted the construction of a mega-prison in his city, Colombia’s second-largest, becoming the latest Latin American leader to mimic the iron-fisted approach to gang violence of El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele...
US President Donald Trump said he was considering a limited strike on Iran after ordering a major naval buildup in the Middle East aimed at heaping pressure on Tehran to cut a deal to curb its nuclear programme. The latest threat came after...
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier was seen entering the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, where it was ordered by US President Donald Trump as part of a massive military buildup in the Middle East. The carrier was seen transiting the Strait of...
Sweden’s government on Friday announced that it was developing its own Swedish-language model for artificial intelligence. “The government has adopted a Swedish AI strategy, and an important part of it is that Sweden needs high-quality...
Dozens of national delegations at an artificial intelligence summit in India will issue their statement on how the world should handle the technology on Saturday, a day later than expected, the host country said. “There is huge consensus on...
Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency has taken over mercenary group Wagner’s influence operations in Africa after the death of its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to a new investigation. Wagner, whose brutal methods have been...
NASA on Friday set March 6 as the earliest possible launch date for Artemis 2, the first crewed flyby mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. Lori Glaze, a senior official with the US space agency, cautioned that pad work, a flight readiness...
