The United States will hand over two top regional commands in NATO to European countries, diplomats said Monday, as President Donald Trump presses allies to take greater responsibility for their defence. Washington will transfer leadership of...
A simple brain-training exercise could reduce people’s risk of developing dementia by 25 percent, a study said Monday, but with outside researchers expressing caution in interpreting the results. There are vast amounts of brain-training games...
“Something is rotten in the Kingdom of Norway,” Norwegian author Aslak Nore wrote in an op-ed last week, paraphrasing Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Many Norwegians share this sentiment in light of revelations unearthed by the recent...
Next time you’re considering consulting Dr ChatGPT, perhaps think again. Despite now being able to ace most medical licensing exams, artificial intelligence chatbots do not give humans better health advice than they can find using more...
The arrests — including that of Javad Emam, the spokesperson for the main reformist coalition — came after Iranian and US officials held talks in Oman that both sides painted as positive. On Saturday, Iran heaped more jail time on Nobel...
Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell refused on Monday to answer questions from a US congressional committee, invoking her legal right against self-incrimination, lawmakers said. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for...
Iran is prepared to dilute its highly enriched uranium if the US lifts all sanctions on the country, the head of its atomic energy agency said Monday after talks resumed with Washington. “In conclusion, in response to a question about the...
Somalia Monday signed a defence agreement with Saudi Arabia, as the Horn of Africa becomes an arena for proxy wars between Gulf monarchies, with Abu Dhabi at loggerheads with Riyadh. The region, strategically located between the Indian Ocean and the...
US forces boarded and seized an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean that violated President Donald Trump’s blockade of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean and fled the region, the Pentagon said Monday. The Pentagon told AFP that US forces had...
President Emmanuel Macron Monday distanced France from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, saying it “mainly concerns” the United States after ex-minister Jack Lang resigned from a top cultural post over links to the late sex offender. His...
China on Monday denied US allegations it had conducted secret nuclear explosive tests, calling them “outright lies” and accusing Washington of making excuses to start up its own trials. At the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on...
The United States on Monday slammed a Hong Kong court’s sentencing of pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai to two decades in prison, immediately calling for Beijing to release the 78-year-old on humanitarian grounds. “The Hong Kong High...
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Monday backed a push to favour European firms over foreign rivals in “strategic” fields, ahead of a leaders’ meeting on boosting the bloc’s competitiveness. The EU executive will put forward a...
Keir Starmer’s position as UK prime minister hit new trouble Monday after the leader of Scottish Labour demanded he quit for embroiling the British government in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Anas Sarwar is the most senior Labour politician to...
Norwegian police said Monday they had launched a corruption investigation into a high-profile diplomat, Mona Juul, and her husband Terje Rod-Larsen as an accomplice, over the couple’s links to late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The police...
