France issued a red heatwave alert across more than a third of the country for Sunday as a ferocious heatwave dug in and the government banned the consumption of alcohol during the annual Fete de la Musique festivities. The prolonged heatwave, which...
Need some good news on a Friday after a long week? The Earth may not be engulfed by the expanding fireball of the dying Sun, which has long been assumed to be our home planet’s ultimate fate, according to scientists. Don’t worry: this is...
The Norwegian government said on Friday it planned to ban all trade with Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories. “Norwegian people and Norwegian companies should not contribute to sustaining illegal settlements. “The...
Italy reacted angrily on Friday after reported comments by US President Donald Trump mocking Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, with the foreign minister cancelling a planned US visit. Meloni said she was “frankly stunned” by Trump’s...
A German court on Friday handed a three-year jail term to a man who publishing online “death sentences” with calls to kill politicians, said to include former chancellors Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz. The 50-year-old German-Polish man...
A Gulf diplomat confirmed an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire was brokered on Friday by Qatar, the US and Iran, after deadly exchanges put immediate strain on the US-Iran peace deal. “Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to halt hostilities in a deal...
Mediators in the US-Iran conflict, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, are due to gather for talks in Egypt on Sunday, Cairo and Islamabad said. Pakistan’s foreign ministry said on Friday that the four-way meeting would bring together...
French authorities have detained and charged a Belarus-born man on suspicion of spying for Russia on a French drone manufacturer, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday. The 48-year-old was arrested on June 3 “while filming a drone...
The US Defense Department will ask Congress to approve around $80 billion to cover costs from the Iran war and other expenses, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. President Donald Trump has faced backlash from Americans who accuse him of...
Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Friday that talks with the United States would remain bound by Tehran’s “red lines”. “As we have shown in the past path of negotiations, we are steadfast in...
Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Friday that “all of Lebanon must burn” after Israel’s military announced the deaths of four soldiers there. “With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the...
A fire that broke out at an elementary school in Tokyo on Friday injured around 10 people, including children, media reports said. Thick black smoke billowed from a top-floor window after the blaze reportedly started in a music room at Takinogawa...
Indian police are investigating allegations of embezzlement at a temple in the country’s north that has been a focal point of Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s Hindu-first politics, a top state official said Friday. The Ram Mandir temple in...
Malaysian scientists have discovered a new species of parasitic fungus in Borneo’s jungles that preys on “zombie fungi” known to infect insects before subjecting them to a gruesome death. The new species was collected during...
Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz rose to its highest rate in two months after a deal to halt the US-Iran war, maritime trackers said on Friday. A total of 25 commercial vessels crossed the newly reopened strait on Thursday, the highest...
