Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that kissing a person’s hand without their consent constitutes sexual assault rather than street harassment, according to a decision obtained by AFP on Monday. The ruling upheld the sexual assault conviction of a man...
Congestion at US airports is expected to ease this week after President Donald Trump ordered security officers be paid despite a partial government shutdown. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security expired on February 14 because of a budget...
Mexico is in talks with private companies about buying oil from the state-owned giant Pemex and selling it to Cuban companies, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday. Her comments came after US President Donald Trump said Moscow could send oil to...
The commander of the foreign operations branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards issued a rare message on Monday hailing Iranian proxy groups for helping create a “new regional order”. Esmail Qaani became head of the Guards’...
Peter Steinberger’s artificial intelligence agent tool OpenClaw has taken the tech world by storm with its ability to execute real-life tasks such as checking him in for his flight to Tokyo. AI is not yet a ubiquitous personal assistant for...
German inflation in March jumped to its highest level since January 2024 on the back of rocketing energy prices due to the Middle East war, official data showed Monday. Consumer prices rose by 2.7 percent compared with the same month a year earlier...
NATO said Monday its forces had intercepted an Iranian missile heading towards Turkey, confirming an earlier announcement by the Turkish defence ministry. “On Monday 30 March, NATO again successfully intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile...
The US embassy in Venezuela resumed operations Monday after being closed for seven years, the State Department announced, following Washington’s ouster of leftist president Nicolas Maduro. “Today, we are formally resuming operations at the US...
US President Donald Trump threatened Monday to destroy Iran’s crude export hub of Kharg Island, along with its oil wells and power plants, unless Tehran quickly accepted a peace deal, compounding fears that have already sent energy prices...
US President Donald Trump threatened Monday to destroy Iran’s oil export hub of Kharg Island, oil wells and power plants if it does not soon agree to a deal to end the war. A day after sounding conciliatory and suggesting a deal could be...
India’s rupee fell to a record low of more than 95 to the dollar on Monday, before recovering, despite recent efforts by the central bank to stem its fall. The rupee was among Asia’s worst forex performers in 2025, and its...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday voiced hope for working with elements within Iran’s government, saying the United States privately had received positive messages. Rubio said there were internal “fractures” inside the...
A 15-year-old boy opened fire in a school in Argentina Monday, killing another pupil and wounding eight other people in a rare burst of US-style violence, officials said. The assailant was taken into custody after the shooting in the Mariano Moreno...
Iran’s military said Monday that Israel was behind an attack on a desalination plant in Kuwait. “The brutal aggression by the Israeli regime against Kuwait’s desalination plant, carried out in recent hours under the pretext of...
Iran said on Monday it was not seeking nuclear weapons but the issue of whether to remain part of the non-proliferation treaty was under review in parliament. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has never sought and does not seek nuclear...
