French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Tuesday that any Israeli plans for annexation in the West Bank would be a “red line” and would provoke a European reaction. “Plans for partial or total annexation, whether legal or de...
Iran said Tuesday it had broken up a spy network linked to both Israeli and US spy agencies, months after the war between the Islamic republic and its archenemy Israel. “An anti-security network led by the US and Israeli intelligence services...
Part of a recently opened bridge in China’s southwestern Sichuan province collapsed on Tuesday along a national highway connecting the country’s heartland with Tibet, according to local authorities cited by Reuters. No casualties were reported...
Google unveiled its biggest-ever investment in Germany on Tuesday, pledging 5.5 billion euros ($6.4 billion) for a new data centre and other projects, as Europe seeks to catch up in the AI race. It comes after AI chip juggernaut Nvidia and Deutsche...
Thieves made off with several ancient gold ingots from Syria’s national museum in Damascus, a security source and another close to the institution’s management said Tuesday. The museum was spared during Syria’s destructive civil...
President Donald Trump took a sudden swipe at France on Monday during an interview with US broadcaster Fox News, saying “we’ve had a lot of problems with the French.” Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham questioned the US president on...
A US aircraft carrier strike group arrived in Latin America on Tuesday, escalating a military buildup that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict as it announced its own deployment. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest...
Russia on Tuesday offered to discuss with the United States allegations from Washington that it had carried out secret underground nuclear tests, in a bid to ease tensions between the world’s top two nuclear superpowers. Russia has tested its...
German police have arrested a man who allegedly made online calls on the darknet to kill politicians, including former chancellors Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, judicial sources said Tuesday. The suspect, a German-Polish man only partially named as...
Venezuela on Tuesday announced what it called a major, nationwide military deployment to counter the US naval presence off its coast. Washington is carrying out a military campaign in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, deploying naval and air forces...
A Chinese woman who masterminded a multibillion-dollar bitcoin scam and evaded authorities for years was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in jail by a UK court Tuesday. Nicknamed the “goddess of wealth”, 47-year-old Zhimin Qian...
A Turkish military cargo plane carrying 20 passengers and crew crashed in Georgia on its way home from Azerbaijan, the defence ministry said Tuesday. “Our C-130 military cargo plane, which took off from Azerbaijan to return home, has crashed...
A future Democratic president would rejoin the Paris climate accord “without hesitation,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday, slamming President Donald Trump for pulling the United States out of the deal. “It’s a...
A German court ruled Tuesday that OpenAI has infringed copyright law by using song lyrics to feed its chat models in a case that could have wide implications for European artists. The Munich court found that the maker of ChatGPT was not entitled to...
Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants to revive the world’s number four economy by investing in 17 key areas including AI, chips and shipbuilding, government documents showed Tuesday. The growth plan due to be finalised in 2026...
