Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will visit the White House on March 19, President Donald Trump said Thursday, praising the Asian country’s first woman leader ahead of weekend snap elections she is expected to win. Takaichi “has...
Anthropic on Thursday released its latest high-performing artificial intelligence model, escalating its challenge to OpenAI and Google in the intensifying AI race. Founded by former OpenAI staffers in 2021, Anthropic has gained significant momentum...
The last 89 Christians held captive since criminal gangs attacked three churches in northern Nigeria in mid-January were released on Thursday, according to local officials and an AFP journalist. The worshippers, dressed in yellow, arrived on a bus...
organizing a prayer rally on the National Mall in Washington in a bid to “rededicate” Americans‘ devotion to God. “On May 17th, 2026, we’re inviting Americans from all across the country to come together on our National...
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday cancelled a mandate for all vehicles sold in Canada to be electric by 2035, while announcing a multi-billion-dollar plan to support EV production. The announcement marked another departure from the policies...
France’s President Emmanuel Macron this week sent an adviser to Moscow, an informed source said Thursday, as a Russian minister said Vladimir Putin was ready to receive the French leader’s call. Emmanuel Bonne on Tuesday discreetly met...
US authorities have charged 11 people for their alleged involvement in a scheme to recruit Americans into sham marriages with Chinese nationals seeking to fraudulently obtain residency papers, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The scheme...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, battling for his political future, apologised Thursday to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein for appointing disgraced Peter Mandelson, a friend of the sex offender, as US ambassador. Starmer, who also indicated he would...
US Vice President JD Vance sought to put politics aside when he visited US athletes preparing for the Winter Olympics on Thursday. “The whole country, Democrat, Republican, independent, we’re all rooting for you, and we’re cheering...
The United States embassy will have “no further dealings” with the Speaker of the Polish parliament after claims he insulted President Donald Trump, its ambassador said on Thursday. Tom Rose said the decision was made because of...
Prosecutors on Thursday filed charges against the brother of the head of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency for offences including “assisting the enemy in wartime”, over the alleged smuggling of cigarettes into besieged Gaza...
Poland’s justice minister said Thursday that secret service officials, prosecutors and police would join a team to look into Polish links to convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Formed after the release of millions of new documents by...
A client who duped a sex worker with fake proof of payment has been convicted of rape in Belgium, in a ruling the Antwerp court of appeal called unprecedented on Thursday. Belgium is among several European countries that allow regulated sex work...
The United States and Russia have agreed to reestablish high-level military-to-military dialogue, the Pentagon said Thursday, hours after the expiration of the last treaty imposing limits on the pair’s nuclear arsenals. Russia has said it is...
Preparations for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics ratcheted up Thursday on the eve of the opening ceremony while the start of the ice hockey was hit by an outbreak of norovirus. The most geographically dispersed Games in history officially start...
