Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, the son of Libya’s late longtime ruler, was killed on Tuesday by a “four-man commando” in his home in western Libya’s Zintan, his French lawyer, Marcel Ceccaldi, told AFP. “For now, we don’t...
Renowned American intellectual Noam Chomsky privately sympathized with Jeffrey Epstein over what he described as the “horrible way” the press treated the late sex offender, urging him in a 2019 email to lie low and avoid media...
The US House of Representatives passed a spending bill on Tuesday ending the four-day partial government shutdown sparked by Democratic opposition to funding for the federal agency carrying out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown...
The EU executive on Tuesday strongly rejected accusations made in a US congressional report that it had forced social media platforms to censor American content. In a scathing 160-page report, the Republican-dominated judiciary committee of the...
A US fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that approached an American aircraft carrier in the Middle East on Tuesday, Washington said, as renewed tensions on the high seas overshadowed plans for nuclear talks. White House spokeswoman Karoline...
European officials hope to clinch a deal on rare earths during talks on Wednesday with the US administration on the minerals essential to industries including defence. Washington is hosting the first ministerial meeting aimed at strengthening and...
The Iberian peninsula on Tuesday braced for a violent storm, with southern Spain shutting schools and Portugal placed on fresh alert after severe weather killed five people last week. Spanish weather agency AEMET issued its highest red alert for...
Up to 800 “dark fleet” vessels under sanctions are operating worldwide and only a small percentage have been interdicted, a senior US Coast Guard officer said Tuesday. President Donald Trump in December ordered a “blockade”...
Nearly four out of every 10 cancer cases could be prevented if people avoided a range of risk factors including smoking, drinking, air pollution and certain infections, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. New research published on the eve of...
China’s BYD, the world’s top electric car-maker, is preparing a new model for India as it looks to continue its rapid growth overseas, executive vice president Stella Li told AFP on Tuesday. Engineers at BYD’s headquarters in...
French prosecutors said Tuesday they had charged 10 men aged 29 to 50 in relation to an investigation into the alleged rape of a five-year-old boy while drugged. The shocking case, in which the boy’s father has been charged, is a rare example...
NATO said Tuesday that military planning has started for a new mission to bolster security in the Arctic, after US President Donald Trump made protecting the region central to his demands for Greenland. “Planning is underway for a NATO...
Pfizer reported a quarterly loss Tuesday following a large write-down, denting shares as it confirmed 2026 financial targets with lower revenues. The big US drugmaker pointed to another drop in quarterly revenues tied to Covid-19 products, as well...
US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, an Israeli official said, during a visit that followed the reopening of Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt. The official told AFP that the meeting was taking...
Two suspects were arrested Tuesday for attempting to sabotage German naval vessels last year in a dock in the northern German port of Hamburg, prosecutors said. A 37-year-old Romanian and a 54-year-old Greek citizen were arrested in Hamburg and in a...
