Robert Duvall, who played the smooth mafia lawyer in “The Godfather” and stole the show with his depiction of a surfing-crazed colonel in “Apocalypse Now,” has died at the age of 95, his wife said Monday. “Yesterday we...
Ukraine recaptured 201 square kilometres (78 square miles) from Russia between Wednesday and Sunday last week, leveraging a Starlink shutdown for Russian forces, according to an AFP analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The...
The UK government said Monday it would no longer postpone local elections for millions of voters across England, a U-turn by embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration that hard-right leader Nigel Farage claimed as a victory. The...
Israeli police said Monday that they would deploy in force around the Al‑Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins this week, as Palestinian officials accused Israel of imposing restrictions at the compound. Over the course...
France has granted safe haven to an anti-Kremlin Russian activist couple detained by ICE in the United States, but his wife was nowhere to be found after he landed in Paris on Monday. After France issued the couple humanitarian visas to avoid them...
German police have discovered the mummified body of a woman aged over 100 in the home she shared with her 82-year-old daughter, Bild newspaper reported on Monday. Police suspected the daughter of hiding the body for years so she could continue...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed Viktor Orban’s leadership during a visit to Budapest on Monday, ahead of elections threatening the nationalist prime minister’s hold on power. Rubio’s visit is the final stage of a whirlwind...
The UK government said Monday that it would include AI chatbots in online safety laws, closing a loophole exposed after Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok was used to create sexualised deepfakes. Providers of chatbots will be responsible for...
French investigators raided the offices of former culture minister Jack Lang on Monday, prosecutors said, as the fallout grows over his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Lang was forced out of his post as head of the Arab World...
Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus stepped down on Monday in a farewell broadcast to the nation before handing over to an elected government. “Today, the interim government is stepping down,” the 85-year-old Nobel Peace...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday began a series of military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, state media reported, on the eve of talks with the United States. The war games, the duration of which was not specified, aim to...
Iran said on Monday that the United States’s position on Iran’s nuclear programme “has moved towards a more realistic one”, a day ahead of a second round of US-Iranian talks in Geneva. Tehran’s foreign minister arrived...
TV producer Dana Eden, who co-created the hit Israeli spy thriller series “Tehran“, has been found dead in a hotel room in Athens, Greek police told AFP on Monday. The 52-year-old Israeli national’s body was found Sunday night at a...
Service was restored to Elon Musk-owned social network X Monday afternoon after it had failed to show posts to users in many countries. The site was displaying content, allowing users to post and otherwise functioning normally again around 1530 GMT...
The Kremlin said Monday that it “strongly rejected” an assessment by five European countries that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from poisoning two years ago, as his supporters marked the anniversary of his death in prison...
