Venice on Thursday began charging day-trippers for entry, a world first aimed at tackling mass tourism but opposed by protesters objecting to treating the historic Italian city as a museum. Under a trial scheme, visitors exploring Venice for the day...
A new poll reveals that more than half of Americans, including a significant 42% of Democrats, support mass deportations of illegal immigrants while President Biden’s border issues continue. According to the Axios Vibes survey by the Harris...
Internet users’ public expression of their sexual orientation does not authorise using this data “for the purposes of personalised advertising,” a legal adviser at the EU’s top court said Thursday. Austria’s Supreme...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he plans to visit China in May, in what would be his first trip abroad since re-election as the two forge closer ties. The West has viewed Russia and China with increased anxiety over the past two years...
Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions “most likely” exacerbated the intense rains that lashed the UAE and Oman last week, causing deaths and widespread flooding, an expert group of scientists said Thursday. Extreme rainfall in...
Ukraine’s agriculture minister on Thursday offered to resign after he was named a formal suspect in a multi-million-dollar corruption probe, the head of Ukraine’s parliament said. “The Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s parliament)...
Between 80,000 and 100,000 Palestinians have crossed into Egypt from Gaza since the start of the war triggered by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, the Palestinian ambassador to Cairo said Thursday. Ambassador Diab Allouh told AFP that they...
New security assistance from the United States and elsewhere will help Kyiv regain the initiative on the battlefield, but it will take time and a large-scale Ukrainian offensive is unlikely in the near-term, a US official said Thursday. The previous...
Toomaj Salehi, 33, one of the best-known figures arrested in a crackdown on protests that began in 2022, risks being hanged after the conviction on the sharia charge of “corruption on Earth” by a Revolutionary Court. The verdict, which...
A pair of bears picked the wrong person to mess with Thursday in Japan when they approached a 50-year-old karate practitioner only to be kicked away, police and media said. Masato Fukuda was lightly injured in his encounter with the bears on...
Marine biologists raced Thursday to save more than 100 pilot whales after a mass stranding on an Australian beach, with officials fearing many will have to be euthanised. Western Australia’s Parks and Wildlife Service said 26 of the beached...
French President Emmanuel Macron Thursday called for a “revision” of EU trade policy to defend European interests, accusing both China and the United States of no longer respecting the rules of global commerce. “It cannot work if...
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in France after he allegedly said on social media he wanted to make an explosive belt and die a martyr at the Paris Olympics this summer, officials said. The teenager from the department of Haute-Savoie in...
Two of the five British Army horses that bolted in central London on Wednesday before galloping through the streets at rush hour are in a “serious condition”, a minister said Thursday. “There were five horses. They have all been...
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether Donald Trump, as a former president, should be immune from criminal prosecution for acts he committed while in office. The ruling could have far-reaching implications for the extent of US...
