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Robert Pattinson's dark thriller Primetime is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, September 5, with the British actor playing a paedophile-hunting TV presenter. Read full story →
US stocks closed lower Friday after stronger-than-expected August jobs data led investors to increase bets that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its September meeting. Read full story →
Dangote Petroleum Refinery is preparing an initial public offering that could raise about $1.6 billion, the Nigerian company said Friday. Read full story →
Portugal will continue talks with both Air France-KLM and Lufthansa on the privatisation of a controlling stake in TAP Air Portugal, the government said Friday. Read full story →
Volkswagen workers in Germany voiced anger and uncertainty on Friday after management, shareholders and unions agreed to raise planned job cuts to 100,000 over the coming years and left the long-term future of four German plants unresolved. Read full story →
Heavy spending on AI data centres and related infrastructure is not fuelling a stock market bubble, Blackstone president Jon Gray said in an interview published Friday. Read full story →
Most Asian stocks rose Friday and government bond yields held their recent losses after comments from senior Federal Reserve officials eased fears that the US central bank would raise interest rates at its September 16 meeting. Read full story →
Aardman Animations is marking its 50th anniversary with “Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom,” the third full-length film starring Shaun the Sheep, due in UK cinemas on September 18. Read full story →
Volkswagen said Thursday that management and unions had agreed to cut 100,000 jobs by the end of the decade, deepening a restructuring at Europe's largest carmaker. Read full story →
Uber's shutdown in Nigeria has left thousands of drivers looking for other sources of income after the ride-hailing company ended operations in the country without notice on Wednesday. Read full story →
Bordeaux's relegation to the sixth tier of French football was upheld on Thursday when the French Football Federation's special executive committee confirmed the sanction, a source close to the body told AFP. Read full story →
A Pierre Cardin museum is scheduled to open on September 13 at Palazzo Bragadin in Venice, displaying around 130 outfits from the late designer's career. Read full story →
Wall Street stocks rose early Thursday while US Treasury bond yields retreated after government data showed the US trade deficit widened in July. Read full story →
Indian regional airline Fly91 said Thursday it had ordered 40 ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft in a deal worth approximately $1 billion. Read full story →
A tool accidentally left in an Airbus plane forced the company to slow deliveries of new A330 jets for several months, a company source told AFP on Thursday. Read full story →
Uber will lay off around 10 percent of its workforce worldwide as part of “significant organizational changes,” chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told employees in a message released Wednesday. Read full story →
Jaguar Land Rover opened orders on Wednesday for a new fully electric Range Rover, one year after a major cyberattack halted production and hit the British carmaker's finances. Read full story →
Ryanair said Wednesday it would cut its winter schedule as higher fuel costs hit the airline industry, and lowered its passenger target for the fiscal year to April 2027. Read full story →
Stocks fell Wednesday as oil prices extended gains and bond yields stayed near multi-decade highs, with investors increasing bets on further interest rate rises after renewed US-Iran attacks. Read full story →
British oil giant BP said Wednesday it appointed Ian Tyler as permanent chairman after an extensive search, making permanent the role he took on after Albert Manifold was suddenly removed. Read full story →
Taiwan's semiconductor industry revenue is projected to be close to US$300 billion in 2026, more than 40 percent higher than last year, Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association president Wu Chih-i said Wednesday. Read full story →
John Ternus took over as Apple's chief executive on Tuesday, ending Tim Cook's 15-year run and putting a longtime hardware engineer in charge as the company faces pressure to catch rivals in artificial intelligence. Read full story →
The Los Angeles Angels sale to US billionaire Stan Kroenke is valued at $4 billion, multiple US outlets reported, after Kroenke agreed terms to buy a controlling interest in the baseball team. Read full story →
Ariana Grande fans gathered at London's O2 on Tuesday for the final show of her 10-night residency and the end of her Eternal Sunshine tour, with some calling it a bittersweet moment before her planned break from public visibility. Read full story →
Nestle said it will sell its mainstream vitamins, minerals and supplements business to US private equity firm Yellow Wood Partners for $1 billion. Read full story →
Shein shares closed almost unchanged on Tuesday in their Hong Kong trading debut, ending down 0.1% at HK$48.5 after falling by as much as 10% at the open. Read full story →
Peru's anchovy catch has collapsed as warmer seas linked to El Nino disrupt the fishing industry, with government data showing the May catch fell to 32,800 metric tons from 1.3 million metric tons in May last year. Read full story →
Oil prices rose about 1.5% Tuesday and stocks mostly fell as investors watched the risk of renewed US-Iran fighting after President Donald Trump warned that Washington would hit Iran “hard”. Read full story →
Ikea said Tuesday it was cutting prices by up to 28 percent on around 1,500 products in Europe from September 1, as the furniture group seeks to attract customers facing higher living costs. Read full story →
Munich is growing as a centre for defence technology startups as Europe increases military spending and the war in Ukraine drives demand for drones, software and autonomous systems. Read full story →
Traditional boat builders in Karachi’s Ibrahim Hyderi are still making wooden fishing vessels by hand, preserving a craft tied to Pakistan’s coastal fishing economy. Read full story →
Tim Cook has ended his tenure as Apple's chief executive, telling staff in a farewell memo that he was handing leadership of the company to incoming CEO John Ternus. Read full story →
Abu Dhabi-owned defence group EDGE says the Middle East war has increased demand for its weapons as it pushes into European markets. Read full story →
TAP Air Portugal reported a €59.3 million, or $68.8 million, net loss for the second quarter as fuel costs weighed on the airline before its planned reprivatisation. Read full story →
Huawei said net profit fell 36 percent in the first half of 2026 as the Chinese technology company increased spending on AI-related research and faced rising costs. Read full story →
President Donald Trump's administration moved Friday to consider dropping or reducing endangered species protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves in the United States. Read full story →
Spain equalled its September heat record on Thursday when weather agency AEMET measured 45.7C in El Granado, a municipality in Andalusia, the agency said Friday. Read full story →
Climate change is expected to feature prominently in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's September 16 State of the European Union speech after a deadly summer of record-breaking heatwaves across Europe. Read full story →
The current El Nino could become the strongest since comparable monitoring began four decades ago, the World Meteorological Organization said on September 3, warning that it is expected to intensify into a very strong event in the months ahead. Read full story →
A rare trio of hurricanes was moving through the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, with scientists attributing the storms to waters warmed by a historically strong El Nino. Read full story →
Plug-in hybrids emit far more carbon dioxide in real-world driving than official approval values suggest, according to a study published Thursday by the International Council on Clean Transportation. Read full story →
France had its hottest summer on record in 2026 and saw 53 days of heatwave conditions, Environment Minister Monique Barbut and the national weather service said Thursday, after months marked by heatwaves, drought and major wildfires. Read full story →
China's carbon dioxide emissions fell in the second quarter as the US-Iran war disrupted Middle East oil shipping and reduced Chinese oil use, according to analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. Read full story →
Indonesian conservation officials rescued a mother orangutan and her baby from wildfire smoke in Central Kalimantan on Borneo, officials said Thursday. Read full story →
Taiwan held its first extreme heat drill in New Taipei City on Thursday, but the exercise was hit by heavy rain instead of the 40C conditions officials were practising for. Read full story →
Kenyan wildlife officers are trapping crocodiles around Lake Baringo and moving them to a protected park as rising waters push the reptiles closer to homes. Read full story →
The current El Nino weather episode could become the strongest recorded since monitoring began four decades ago, World Meteorological Organization chief Celeste Saulo said on September 3. Read full story →
Farmers, scientists and development specialists meeting in Bhutan are promoting “conscious food systems” as a response to pressures on agriculture, including climate change, degraded soil and the financial strain facing producers. Read full story →
Technology companies are increasing their climate commitments, but not fast enough to offset rising energy demand linked to artificial intelligence, a report said Wednesday. Read full story →
Germany’s summer drought has hit harvests and pushed farming into what Agriculture Minister Alois Rainer called a “massive nationwide crisis”, prompting the government to expand emergency lending for producers. Read full story →
The United Nations Environment Programme said the world will miss the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, and that countries must now plan for an overshoot while trying to bring temperatures back down. Read full story →
Nepal's flood disaster and Europe's wildfires should push governments to focus again on the cost of climate change, Green Climate Fund executive director Mafalda Duarte said on Wednesday. Read full story →
Scientists warned Wednesday that Pacific islands face food shortages and damaged drinking water supplies as global warming overshoots the 1.5C target set by the Paris Agreement. Read full story →
A Pacific climate meeting to be held in Fiji and Tuvalu on October 5-8 has only a handful of leaders confirmed so far, but Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday it would still raise global attention on climate change. Read full story →
Residents of Obilic, the Kosovo town beside the country's largest coal-fired power plants, say cancer fears are widespread as pollution from lignite coal remains a daily concern. Read full story →
Pope Leo XIV held a special Mass for the environment on Tuesday in the gardens of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo near Rome, urging people to protect nature and condemning destruction caused by wars. Read full story →
More than 1,000 farmers with about 200 tractors demonstrated outside Denmark’s parliament on Tuesday against planned legislation regulating fertiliser use, agricultural emissions and arable land. Read full story →
Britain and Belgium both recorded their hottest summers on record, their weather agencies announced Tuesday, after repeated heatwaves and drought conditions in parts of Europe. Read full story →
Belgium recorded its hottest summer since observations began in 1833, the country's Royal Meteorological Institute said Tuesday. Read full story →
India had its hottest August since records began in 1901, with a mean temperature of 28.01C, the India Meteorological Department said. Read full story →
Japan bear attacks have killed six people since April 1, according to the environment ministry, while researchers in Nagano point to a long-running coexistence programme as an alternative to wider culling. Read full story →
Warmer conditions are helping vineyards expand into northern France, where growers in Normandy, Brittany and Hauts-de-France are trying to build wine regions in areas long associated with cider, rain and cooler weather. Read full story →
Thousands of dead sardines have washed onto beaches around Gqeberha on South Africa's south coast, raising concern that pilchard herpesvirus may be spreading through the country's waters. Read full story →
Malaysia's Sarawak state plans cloud seeding from September 3 to 5 if conditions allow, after haze pushed air quality to hazardous levels and the Air Pollutant Index reached 475 in Serian district, state officials said on August 31. Read full story →
Pacific island countries are experiencing sea level rise at twice the global average, a UN report published Monday said, as a senior UN official urged leaders from major economies to see the threat from a Pacific atoll. Read full story →
Iranian media reported several explosions near Iran's major oil hub of Kharg Island in the Gulf on Saturday, days after renewed fighting broke out between Iran and the United States. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump said Friday that he calls the Iran war a “military conflict” and described it as “small potatoes” for the United States, a day after Vice President JD Vance said he would not describe the conflict as a war. Read full story →
The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions Friday on Turkish lender Golden Global Bank and its subsidiaries over alleged ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, while the bank denied the accusations. Read full story →
Iran said Thursday it struck US military bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, while Kuwait said it intercepted missiles and drones from Iran and Washington said it was investigating Tehran's allegation that a US strike hit a wedding in southern Iran. Read full story →
US Vice President Vance said Washington is probing an alleged strike on a wedding in Iran but is “skeptical,” after Tehran blamed the United States for the attack. Read full story →
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that economic pressure on Iran could push Tehran into “desperate steps”, while warning that any Iranian attack on Israel would bring a major Israeli response. Read full story →
Kuwait's Iranian community is facing new pressure as the Middle East war brings repeated Iranian strikes on the Gulf state and heightens sensitivity around links to Iran. Read full story →
Kuwait's foreign ministry called overnight strikes by Iran a “direct threat” to the Gulf state's security and stability Thursday, after Kuwait's army said its air defences were intercepting missile and drone attacks. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz the “Trump Strait” on Wednesday, then later played down the idea when asked whether he was serious. Read full story →
Two Filipino sailors were killed after the Saudi Arabia-flagged oil tanker SIDR was involved in a security incident in the Strait of Hormuz late on August 31, Saudi Arabia's national shipping company Bahri said Wednesday. Read full story →
The USS Abraham Lincoln docked at Laem Chabang, south of Bangkok, on Wednesday for a five-day port call after 286 days at sea, bringing around 5,000 US sailors and Marines to Thailand for rest and recreation near Pattaya. Read full story →
Iran's army said Wednesday it targeted US forces at Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain with suicide drones, Iranian state media reported, as Tehran launched strikes targeting American interests across the Middle East. Read full story →
Jordan's army said its air defences intercepted 10 of 13 ballistic missiles launched from Iran that entered the kingdom's airspace, while three fell in remote areas away from populated centres. Read full story →
Iranian state media said Tuesday that four projectiles hit areas in Chabahar and Konarak counties in southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province, east of the Strait of Hormuz. Read full story →
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf urged citizens on Tuesday to reduce petrol use, saying Iran needed to save gasoline as it struggled to import enough fuel because of a US naval blockade. Read full story →
Qatar urged the United States and Iran on Tuesday to return to negotiations after renewed attacks between the two sides, while Iran's president said Tehran would respond if Washington returned to a June deal aimed at ending their war. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump said the United States would respond after a new exchange of fire with Iran around the Strait of Hormuz, Fox News reported, as Tehran also called for dialogue. Read full story →
Iranian authorities said they seized a bulk carrier in the Strait of Hormuz after accusing it of dumping oil and sludge into the sea, state media reported Monday. Read full story →
The United Arab Emirates called an Iranian drone attack intercepted over its territorial waters a “dangerous escalation” on Monday and said it reserved the right to respond. Read full story →
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said US strikes on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday had killed and wounded people and promised reprisals. Read full story →
Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei called on Muslim countries in the region to unite against the United States and Israel in a written message issued Sunday, six months after the start of the Middle East war. Read full story →
The US ambassador said Israel is not planning forced displacement from Gaza, after Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israel had plans ready to remove Palestinians from the territory if Washington agreed. Read full story →
Israeli strikes killed at least three people and wounded 23 in southern and eastern Lebanon late on Friday, Lebanon's health ministry said. Read full story →
Israel has asked Lebanon for information on the remains of Lebanese Jews kidnapped and killed during Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war, a demand raised in recent Lebanon-Israel talks. Read full story →
The United Nations rights office warned Friday that Israel's forced displacement of Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps could amount to the crime against humanity of forcible transfer. Read full story →
Hamas called on Arab and Muslim countries on Friday to oppose proposals by Israeli ministers to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and send them abroad. Read full story →
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Friday that Israeli forces had captured the Ali al-Taher ridge from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, calling it the completion of a phase of securing Israeli control in what Israel describes as its security zone. Read full story →
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it transferred five people released from Israeli detention to Lebanon, with one person moved on Thursday and four more on Friday. Read full story →
Israeli police said Friday they killed a Palestinian man in central Jerusalem after he attempted to attack officers with a knife. Read full story →
West Bank settler violence and settlement expansion are straining Israel's relations with Western allies before Israel's October elections, with Britain and France signalling possible moves against settlement activity. Read full story →
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Thursday set out a plan to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and send them abroad. Read full story →
Israeli police arrested a 19-year-old suspect on Thursday in a weekend attack by Israeli settlers on the West Bank village of Qusra, near Nablus. Read full story →
Palestinian officials said the Israeli army killed two teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday night, while the Israeli military said troops opened fire during what it called a violent riot. Read full story →
The World Food Programme said two trucks carrying UN food aid in Sudan were destroyed in an aerial attack outside Dilling, in South Kordofan state, on Sunday. Read full story →
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said an Israeli drone strike killed one person and wounded another in the southern city of Nabatieh on Wednesday, while Israel said it hit Hezbollah infrastructure after an attack targeting its soldiers. Read full story →
At least five Israeli activists were injured last week after settlers forced them from Jannatah, near Bethlehem, where they had gone to help protect a Palestinian family. Read full story →
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused security officials of deliberately not waking him on the morning of Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, intensifying a political fight over responsibility for the security failures that preceded the assault. Read full story →
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces captured the head of Hamas's internal security apparatus in Gaza during a Tuesday ground operation in western Gaza City, where Palestinian health officials said Israeli strikes killed four people. Read full story →
The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that Gaza's approaching rainy season could worsen public health risks for people living in crowded tent camps surrounded by rubble, rubbish and overflowing sewage. Read full story →
Palestinian officials said Israeli settlers tried to set fire to parts of the Nur al-Din Zanki Mosque in Bazzaryah, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday. Read full story →
Greece has signed a €3 billion ($3.5 billion) arms deal with Israel for the Achilles Shield, a multi-layered aerial defence system using Israeli-made anti-missile, anti-aircraft and anti-drone equipment. Read full story →
Gaza health officials and rescuers said Israeli strikes killed five people around Gaza City on Monday, while Israel's military said it targeted Hamas military operatives and identified one of the dead as a weapons supplier to the group. Read full story →
Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek has condemned what she called “land grabbing” in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, and argued that Western talk of a two-state solution in the Middle East amounts to a “lie”. Read full story →
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted a video on Sunday in which he praised worsening conditions for Palestinian prisoners while visiting female inmates. Read full story →
Palestinian children and teenagers are being killed at a higher rate in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to figures reported by Israeli and Palestinian organisations. Read full story →
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned what he called “criminal acts of violence” after dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra in the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday, residents and the Israeli military said. Read full story →
Israel's military said it struck an unnamed Hamas commander inside the compound of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza on Saturday, while the hospital said four people suffered minor injuries and Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes elsewhere killed four people. Read full story →
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned what he called “criminal acts of violence” in the occupied West Bank villages of Qusra and Jalud on Saturday, in remarks AFP described as a rare criticism of Jewish settlers. Read full story →
A Russian strike on Kamianske in southeastern Ukraine killed four people and wounded five, Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said Saturday. Read full story →
Ukraine said a Russian drone hit the headquarters of its SBU security service in central Kyiv on Friday, September 4, while Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least 12 people were wounded. Read full story →
The World Health Organization said one of its main warehouses storing humanitarian medical supplies in Ukraine was destroyed in an air attack in the Kyiv region early Thursday. Read full story →
Ukraine has proposed observing a ceasefire with Russia while US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visit Moscow and Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday. Read full story →
A Russian drone struck Ukraine's SBU security service headquarters in central Kyiv on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, and the city mayor said at least 12 people were wounded in the attack on the city centre. Read full story →
Russia said Friday it had asked the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization to condemn Ukraine's warnings that Russian airspace is becoming dangerous because of Ukrainian drones. Read full story →
A senior official in Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally said France would “turn off the tap” to Ukraine if the party came to power, triggering criticism from rival French politicians. Read full story →
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected in Kyiv on Sunday, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP. Read full story →
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said deputy heads of security agencies will be dismissed after a shootout between rival agencies in Kyiv left several officers injured. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump said on September 3 that he would ask Europeans to repay American aid provided to Ukraine under the administration of his predecessor, Joe Biden. Read full story →
Ukraine's western Zakarpattia region has become a rare wartime refuge, with residents of Berehove describing nights without explosions, no wartime curfew and few air-raid alerts while Russian strikes hit other parts of the country. Read full story →
German authorities said defence company offices in Munich were targeted in an overnight arson attack, and two Bulgarian nationals were later arrested. Read full story →
European governments are struggling to find effective responses to alleged Russia-linked hybrid attacks, as intelligence officials warn of sabotage risks and analysts say traditional diplomatic tools have had limited deterrent effect. Read full story →
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar visited Kyiv on Thursday for talks with Ukrainian officials on Black Sea shipping and food security, Ukrainian authorities said. Read full story →
A Ukrainian man will go on trial in Germany on October 14 over the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines linking Russia with Europe, the Hamburg Higher Regional Court said. Read full story →
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on September 3 that Russia has no current need to mobilise more men for its offensive in Ukraine, rejecting speculation about another military call-up. Read full story →
Russia will close branches of Germany's Goethe Institute in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg in response to Germany ordering the closure of a Russian cultural centre in Berlin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday, according to the state TASS news agency. Read full story →
Ukraine has formally told the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization that Russian airspace is “not safe” amid the war, shortly before the agency called on member states to ensure the safety of civilian aircraft. Read full story →
Ukraine said Wednesday it had formally notified the International Civil Aviation Organization that Russian airspace was not safe, following repeated Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory. Read full story →
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States is negotiating with Ukraine over licenses to produce Patriot interceptors, but he said any such deal would not solve Kyiv's short-term air defense shortages because factories would take years to build. Read full story →
Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot pushed back on Wednesday against renewed EU efforts to use frozen Russian central bank assets to fund Ukraine, saying Belgium's opposition had not changed. Read full story →
Ukraine will introduce a two-tier air-raid alert system after repeated Russian strikes disrupted Kyiv and other cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday. Read full story →
Two Ukrainian soldiers known by the callsigns Ice and Khomochka held a ritual wedding on a hillside by a river near Ukraine's eastern front, exchanging vows before fellow soldiers in a ceremony that blended Slavic traditions and Orthodox Christianity. Read full story →
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said EU defence ministers made no concrete progress on Tuesday in securing fresh interceptor missile pledges for Ukraine, while insisting that alleged Russian “hybrid attacks” would not scare Europe away from supporting Kyiv. Read full story →
Russia's advance in eastern Ukraine gained pace in August after several slower months, but remained far below earlier years of the invasion, an AFP analysis of Institute for the Study of War data showed. Read full story →
A Russian drone and ballistic missile barrage killed at least 12 people and wounded 21 in Kyiv and its surrounding region overnight, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday. Read full story →
A fire broke out at Russia's Baltic port of Ust-Luga after a drone attack, Leningrad regional Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said Tuesday. Read full story →
A Kyiv stage adaptation of the Odyssey written and performed by service members from Ukraine's Azov military corps uses drones, radios and memories of Mariupol to recast Homer's story around the war and missing captives. Read full story →
Russian strikes on Kyiv and surrounding areas killed at least four people on Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said. Read full story →
Ukraine announced stricter security protocols for Kyiv public transport, schools and parliament on Monday after a surge in Russian drone attacks disrupted daily life in the capital. Read full story →
Japan's defence ministry requested a record 8.9 trillion yen, or $55.6 billion, budget on Monday, with a focus on artificial intelligence, drones and long-range weapons. Read full story →
Indonesia said on August 31 that it was investigating claims that several of its citizens had joined the Russian military and been deployed in the war in Ukraine. Read full story →
A Russian strike on a Ukrainian military arms depot near Kyiv has killed 38 people, injured 20 and left four missing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday. Read full story →
Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday that Russian forces had begun preparing large-scale strikes against Ukraine's energy sector in response to attacks by Kyiv. Read full story →
A fire broke out at an oil refinery in Russia's Leningrad region after a drone crashed nearby, regional governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said on Sunday. Read full story →
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been without off-site power for more than a week and is relying on emergency diesel generators, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday. Read full story →
Turkey summoned Ukraine's ambassador after what its foreign ministry described as attacks on a Turkish container ship and a second vessel sent to tow it in the Black Sea this week. Read full story →
A guide to the movements, governments and outside powers involved in Yemen's conflict, and how a decade-old civil war became a multi-front regional crisis. Read full story →
Clashes between Yemen's Houthis and government forces near the Bab al-Mandab strait have killed 129 people, according to an AFP tally based on military and medical sources, as the Houthis push toward the Red Sea gateway. Read full story →
An attack on a military base in South Sudan killed 26 people, including six attackers. Read full story →
A drone attack on a military garrison in Ocana, in Colombia's northeastern Catatumbo region, killed at least two soldiers and wounded five others on Friday, authorities said. Read full story →
Colombia's forensics authority said Friday that six minors have been killed in airstrikes on guerrilla groups since President Abelardo de la Espriella took office on August 7, a day after a judge ordered restrictions on bombings where children may be present. Read full story →
Croatia said Friday it will buy South Korean K239 Chunmoo multiple rocket launchers worth 544 million euros, or $632 million, as part of a military modernisation drive. Read full story →
Syrian authorities said Thursday that security forces foiled an escape attempt by Alaa Zahreddine, described as a key associate of an Assad-era general and militia figure. Read full story →
Foreign fighters and support networks are strengthening Sudan's warring parties and worsening violence against civilians, a UN-backed independent fact-finding mission warned Thursday. Read full story →
Syria has begun destroying Assad-era chemical weapon materials, and an international watchdog has verified the irreversible destruction of 42 aerial bombs by Syrian authorities, a senior UN official said Thursday. Read full story →
Somalia's federal government said its army repelled an attack on Baidoa on Thursday, September 3, after forces loyal to ousted South West State governor Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen launched an assault on the key city. Read full story →
Danish counterintelligence chief Emil Graesholm said Russia is preparing sabotage operations targeting Denmark's defence industry and urged companies in the sector to strengthen security. Read full story →
Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration said Thursday it had deployed vessels to monitor Chinese ships operating in waters east of Taiwan. Read full story →
The United States and Australia have agreed to expand the US military presence in Australia and speed up defence cooperation, both governments said after talks in Washington. Read full story →
Lebanese authorities arrested five people accused of planning attacks against the forces of Syria's new government on the Syrian coast, a Lebanese judicial official said Wednesday. Read full story →
German media reported Wednesday that police have identified two suspects linked to an attempted “hybrid attack” involving an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig airport last month. Read full story →
Finland is investigating a possible territorial violation after a drone was found washed up on an island shore in the Porvoo archipelago in the Gulf of Finland, authorities said Wednesday. Read full story →
Around 5,000 US sailors and Marines from the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Thailand on Wednesday for their first port call in 286 days at sea. Read full story →
A Japanese-run NGO has become effectively the only foreign-funded reintegration programme for Islamist fighters still operating in Somalia after other donors reduced support. Read full story →
Syria is recording an average of one casualty from unexploded ordnance every six hours, the mine-clearance charity HALO Trust said, as war remnants continue to kill and injure civilians and soldiers across the country. Read full story →
Five people were reported killed after a failed soldiers' mutiny in Niger, while the African Union condemned the violence and any attempt to seize power by force. Read full story →
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged “full solidarity” with Germany on Tuesday after Berlin said Moscow was behind an explosive-laden drone incident at Leipzig airport in August. Read full story →
A car bomb outside a police station in Los Patios, northeastern Colombia, killed a 23-year-old Venezuelan man and injured 11 other people, including two police officers, authorities said. Read full story →
NATO chief Mark Rutte vowed “full solidarity” with Germany on Tuesday after Berlin said Russia was responsible for an explosive-laden drone incident at Leipzig airport last month. Read full story →
Military experts from Ukraine will join a new initiative to advise European countries on how to close gaps in the continent's defences, the European Union said Tuesday. Read full story →
The European Union is planning a mission to advise and train Lebanon's armed forces, including on border and maritime security, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said after the bloc's defence ministers met in Ireland on Tuesday. Read full story →
Analysts say the suppression of a soldiers' mutiny in Niger with help from Russia's Africa Corps has exposed the military junta's growing reliance on Moscow for its own security. Read full story →
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella said a bombing raid at dawn Monday in Guaviare, southern Colombia, killed 20 guerrillas under the command of the rebel known as Ivan Mordisco. Read full story →
Syrian state television said 10 government security personnel were wounded in clashes with local armed groups in Sweida province on Monday. Read full story →
Vigilante raids in north-central Nigeria may have killed about 700 Fulani herders in recent weeks, a UN source monitoring the situation told AFP, as armed groups accused the herders of helping jihadists. Read full story →
Indonesia, the United States and more than a dozen allies launched the annual Super Garuda Shield military exercises on Monday, with 4,700 soldiers due to train in several Indonesian locations until September 11. Read full story →
North Korea said planned US-Japan-South Korea maritime drills in September are a threat to North Korea and regional countries, in a foreign ministry statement released Monday by the official KCNA news agency. Read full story →
Colombian rebels from the Central General Staff, or EMC, said French Foreign Legion soldier Jose Olger Melo Charry is alive and in “perfect health” after being kidnapped in southwestern Colombia. Read full story →
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Two civilians were killed near the Druze-majority city of Sweida in southern Syria on Sunday during suspected clashes between local armed groups and government forces, two local security sources told AFP. Read full story →
Kurdish families in Istanbul and southeast Turkey are holding remembrance gatherings for relatives who joined the Kurdistan Workers' Party, after Turkish authorities began publishing lists of dead fighters following a new reintegration law. Read full story →
Niger's military said on Saturday that it was gradually regaining control after mutineers held soldiers hostage at a military base next to Niamey's international airport and fired shots. Read full story →
The United States said Friday it had shot down more than 300 drones operated by cartels along the Mexican border since the start of 2026, including 100 in August alone. Read full story →
The US military sank another vessel it said was linked to Ecuador's Los Choneros gang, bringing to three the number of such boats it has destroyed in the Eastern Pacific in a week. Read full story →
Mexican federal lawmaker Zenyazen Escobar was found dead with a gunshot wound on a highway in Veracruz state, local authorities said Friday. Read full story →
Authorities in Cameroon found several minors in a residence in the capital, Yaounde, after an anonymous tip-off, and the social affairs ministry said the children were believed to have been held captive. Read full story →
Mexican authorities said Friday they seized 16.8 tons of amphetamines from clandestine drug labs in northwestern Sinaloa state, home to one of the country's biggest cartels. Read full story →
German authorities were searching Friday for a 48-year-old man suspected of attacks and attempted attacks on the power grid, and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the case appeared to involve climate extremism. Read full story →
Singapore said Friday that 52 of its citizens had been arrested in China's southern Guangxi province on suspicion of involvement in pyramid schemes and related offences. Read full story →
Two US sailors were sent back to their ship after a drunken altercation near Pattaya's Walking Street, Thai police said Friday. Read full story →
South African police said Thursday they uncovered a crystal methamphetamine laboratory hidden on a remote farm about 200 kilometres north of Johannesburg, the third such operation in less than four months. Read full story →
Belgian police arrested a man at Bruxelles Midi station on Thursday, and a person close to the investigation told AFP he had a Kalashnikov automatic rifle in a bag. Read full story →
Serbian prosecutors said Thursday that four people had been detained in an investigation into an “organised group” suspected of moving explosives and drones into European Union countries. Read full story →
The United States military intercepted and sank a vessel allegedly used to support at-sea drug trafficking by Ecuadorian criminal organization Los Choneros, officials said Wednesday. Read full story →
Japan will make driving tests harder for some motorists over 75 with traffic violations, as police try to reduce accidents caused by older drivers mistaking the accelerator for the brake. Read full story →
Two people died and several others were injured, including three police officers, after police said a gunman opened fire in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Read full story →
The man suspected of killing a 22-year-old Italian woman and wounding five other people at a rave in Aarau, Switzerland, has "psychological problems" and has remained silent in custody, Aargau cantonal prosecutor Christoph Ruedi said Wednesday. Read full story →
Iranian state television said authorities arrested 11 foreign nationals on suspicion of trying to smuggle fuel out of the country. Read full story →
US and Sri Lankan anti-narcotics agents seized 463 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from a shipping container in Colombo after a joint operation targeting a Pakistani drug network, police said Wednesday. Read full story →
Mexican authorities have detained a suspect after a car bomb outside a police station in Ojocaliente wounded 10 people in Zacatecas state. Read full story →
Dutch authorities said Tuesday they had arrested 34 people after a pre-dawn shootout in Overasselt killed a 51-year-old and injured two police officers. Read full story →
Mexican soldiers killed Luis Enrique Barragan, an accused drug cartel leader who had a $3 million US bounty on his head, Mexico's government announced Tuesday. Read full story →
A rainbow-coloured bench installed in Berlin’s Tiergarten park to remember victims of a deadly July attack on Pride march revellers has been severely damaged, police said Tuesday. Read full story →
Improvised explosive devices damaged electricity lines on Tuesday near Germany’s Jaenschwalde coal-fired power plant, briefly interrupting service but causing no major blackout, police and grid operator 50Hertz said. Read full story →
Australia will pledge Au$600 million, or $429 million, on Wednesday to help small Pacific island states track and interdict “narco subs” and other drug-smuggling vessels at sea. Read full story →
Police in Japan said Tuesday they had arrested a 36-year-old high school staffer in Iwate over the alleged killing of about 30 hamsters at a hotel, weeks after he was detained in a separate case involving around 20 hamsters. Read full story →
A police search in Montenegro for an armed Russian man suspected of killing three people ended early Tuesday when he killed himself after exchanging fire with officers, authorities said. Read full story →
Illegal mining is damaging roads, power equipment, homes and buildings across Johannesburg and nearby areas, while residents and officials say armed mining gangs have brought new danger to communities. Read full story →
A woman stabbed two people in New York’s Times Square on Monday, killing one victim, before police shot and killed her, city officials said. Read full story →
French officials are examining a Luger pistol found at the bottom of Lake Annecy to determine whether it could have been used in the 2012 murders of three members of an Iraqi-British family and a French cyclist in the Alps. Read full story →
Brazilian forward David Correa was targeted in police raids carried out Monday as part of a drugs and weapons trafficking investigation, his club Vasco da Gama said. Read full story →
Mexican authorities seized 210 firearms that were smuggled into the country from Texas by criminal groups, Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch said on Monday, August 31, 2026. Read full story →
German police said they arrested a 27-year-old German man suspected of fatally stabbing a 31-year-old British woman at Rosenheim railway station southeast of Munich early Sunday. Read full story →
Pierre Picavet, the head of a French LGBTQ rights association, was hospitalised after an alleged homophobic attack in Paris overnight from Saturday to Sunday, activists and prosecutors said. Read full story →
Swiss police were searching Sunday for at least one gunman after a shooting near the Aarauer Rave in Aarau killed a 22-year-old woman and wounded five other people, local police said. Read full story →
Nigeria's anti-drug agency said Sunday it intercepted 47,200 captagon pills and millions of opioids concealed in soap from Ghana. Read full story →
Serbian police rescued three Turkish and two Afghan nationals who had been abducted and held for a 30,000-euro, or $34,700, ransom, the interior ministry said Sunday. Read full story →
Ecuadoran police arrested a Russian woman accused of trying to smuggle 32 rare iguanas from the Galapagos archipelago, authorities said Saturday. Read full story →
Turkey's navy and Somali armed forces freed the hijacked MV LATUF in Somali waters after a 10-day operation, Somalia's government said Saturday. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow on Saturday, Russian agencies said, as Washington pressed a proposal to end more than four years of war in Ukraine. Read full story →
US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said Israel “has responsibility” to ensure the safety of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while calling for “severe consequences” to stop violence there. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump said Friday he will host a state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping when Xi visits the White House on September 24. Read full story →
Trump reiterated that Putin was "not looking to attack" NATO, after German drone claims. Read full story →
The United Nations General Assembly voted on September 4 to back the Equal Earth map projection, a change supporters say gives a more accurate view of the relative size of continents and makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania appear larger than on the traditional Mercator map. Read full story →
The French foreign ministry said Friday it plans to stop using the traditional Mercator projection in its world maps, backing an African-led push for geographical representations that better reflect continents' actual surface areas. Read full story →
Ratko Mladic is scheduled to be buried in Belgrade on Monday, September 7, his son Darko Mladic said, as EU enlargement chief Marta Kos cancelled a planned visit to Serbia over what she called glorification surrounding the former Bosnian Serb military leader's death. Read full story →
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Colombia, Ecuador and Peru from September 8 to 10, the State Department said Friday. Read full story →
Vietnamese President To Lam will visit Russia next week before travelling to France and attending a space summit in Paris, Vietnam's foreign ministry said Friday. Read full story →
EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos has cancelled a planned visit to Serbia over what she called the “glorification” of convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic after his body was received with military honours in Belgrade. Read full story →
Britain said the Falkland Islands are British after Argentine President Javier Milei renewed Argentina's claim to the South Atlantic territory and announced sanctions linked to a British-Israeli oil project near the islands. Read full story →
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot criticised French media outlets for continuing to publish or host Russian commentator Xenia Fedorova after her expulsion from France. Read full story →
Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing arrived in Hanoi on Friday for a three-day Vietnam visit aimed at strengthening political and business ties, according to Myanmar's presidency. Read full story →
South Korea is considering possible contributions to US security efforts in the Strait of Hormuz, potentially including a military deployment, but the president's office said Friday that no decision had been made. Read full story →
Argentine President Javier Milei announced sanctions on companies linked to oil extraction around the Falkland Islands and said a US review of its stance on the sovereignty dispute could favor Argentina. Read full story →
The Democratic Republic of Congo said it would move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem after President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi visited Israel, joining a small group of countries that have made the same move in the contested city. Read full story →
The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on Fidel Ernesto Castro Calis, a grandson of former Cuban leader Raul Castro, and five Cuban state-linked entities, the State Department said. Read full story →
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on September 3 that toppling Iran's Islamic republic was “within reach”, describing the regime as weaker than ever as the United States resumed attacks. Read full story →
Pacific Island nations condemned China's July intercontinental ballistic missile test in a summit communique agreed Thursday in Palau, despite pressure from Beijing on the host country. Read full story →
Russia's foreign ministry said Thursday it summoned Norway's ambassador after Norwegian authorities seized the Russian vessel Professor Molchanov in the Arctic at the request of Ukrainian state energy group Naftogaz. Read full story →
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron held their first official talks at Downing Street on Thursday, discussing Channel migrant crossings, relations between Britain and the European Union, Ukraine and the Middle East. Read full story →
The UK summoned Russia's charge d'affaires on Thursday over an explosive-laden drone incident at Leipzig airport in Germany last month, condemning what it called an “egregious and reckless” attack. Read full story →
Iceland is maintaining its reliance on the United States and NATO for security despite concern over President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, after voters rejected reopening suspended European Union membership talks. Read full story →
Chinese artists have withdrawn from the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea after organisers allowed an exhibition to use the name “Taiwan Pavilion”, officials said Thursday. Read full story →
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez criticised Morocco on Thursday over comments by Moroccan ministers about Ceuta and Melilla, calling them “unacceptable” and saying Spain had summoned Morocco's ambassador on August 21. Read full story →
Canadian entrepreneur Liam Mooney is selling caps defending the name Lake Ontario after President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the US-Canada border lake would be called “Lake America”. Read full story →
French President Emmanuel Macron and King Charles III hailed UK-France ties on Wednesday after viewing the Bayeux Tapestry in London during Macron's two-day visit to Britain. Read full story →
EU foreign ministers opened talks in Ireland on Wednesday on possible changes to the bloc's diplomacy, but foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the current institutional setup should not be changed. Read full story →
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Wednesday that Middle Eastern countries should oppose “external interference” and said China was ready to work with regional states to protect international shipping lanes, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. Read full story →
France insisted on its sovereignty over the disputed Pacific islands of Matthew and Hunter after Vanuatu sought to open a case against Paris at the International Court of Justice. Read full story →
Chinese state news agency Xinhua said President Xi Jinping told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during talks in Cairo on Wednesday that “external interference” in the Middle East should be opposed. Read full story →
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China was willing to work with countries in the Middle East to protect international shipping lanes, Chinese state media reported Wednesday. Read full story →
Peru has severed diplomatic relations with Iran, with its Foreign Ministry accusing Tehran of escalating conflict in the Middle East and disrupting maritime transit through the Strait of Hormuz. Read full story →
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Wednesday during his first visit to the Egyptian capital in a decade, as both countries face pressure from threatened or imposed US sanctions over financial links to Iran. Read full story →
The International Atomic Energy Agency said inspectors found about 73 tonnes of natural uranium metal in Syria after the country's current authorities reported an undisclosed site dating back to ousted former leader Bashar al-Assad. Read full story →
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said on Tuesday that the UK would set out measures over Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank, while Israel warned it would retaliate if London imposed sanctions. Read full story →
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report seen by AFP on Tuesday that its lack of access to key nuclear sites in Iran “needs to be addressed with the utmost urgency”. Read full story →
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that insults by US officials toward Canada were “not productive” to ending a trade war between the neighbouring countries. Read full story →
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Egypt on Tuesday for a rare Middle East trip as China and Egypt face the threat of US sanctions over financial links to Iran. Read full story →
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tuesday that Tehran would take immediate reciprocal action if the United States returned to a June deal aimed at ending their war, while thanking Russian President Vladimir Putin for Moscow's support at a summit in Bishkek. Read full story →
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said Syria is pursuing a diplomatic solution with Israel through US-mediated negotiations despite ongoing Israeli attacks. Read full story →
Taiwan said its presence at the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau prevents China from having “full control” in the region, pushing back against Beijing's objections to Taiwan's role at the summit. Read full story →
Spain recorded 5,111 heat-related deaths from June to August, the highest total for that period since the Carlos III Health Institute began its statistics in 2015, the public institute's data showed Tuesday. Read full story →
Myanmar's military leader and president, Min Aung Hlaing, will visit Vietnam from September 4 to 6, Vietnam state media said Tuesday, in the latest stop on a regional push for diplomatic recognition. Read full story →
South Korea's spy agency has assessed that a summit between the United States and North Korea could be possible “at any time” after signs of dialogue, South Korean lawmaker Youn Kun-young said Tuesday. Read full story →
President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States is reviewing its position on the Falkland Islands, after reports that Washington could threaten to oppose British sovereignty if Britain does not increase defense spending. Read full story →
Denmark reopened its embassy in Damascus on Monday after years of suspended diplomatic activity, Syrian state media reported. Read full story →
Sweden signed a 4.3-billion-euro ($4.9 billion) contract on Aug. Read full story →
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun asked Greece on Monday to help implement a US-sponsored framework deal with Israel and to support efforts to continue a UN role in south Lebanon. Read full story →
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping began talks in Bishkek on Monday as leaders gathered for a two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. Read full story →
An international tribunal ordered India on Monday to observe its obligations under the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan and said New Delhi had no grounds to suspend or terminate the pact. Read full story →
Turkey's foreign minister said the Turkey-Pakistan-Saudi defence pact is not aimed at any country and is open to other states, including possibly Egypt. Read full story →
EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos criticised Serbia’s plans to bury former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic with state honours, saying the “glorification of war criminals” had no place in countries seeking to join the European Union. Read full story →
Russian President Vladimir Putin told China's Xi Jinping on Monday that Moscow wants to cooperate with Beijing on artificial intelligence and digital innovation, as the two leaders met in Kyrgyzstan. Read full story →
Israel accused Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of a “brazen lie” over remarks linked to Ceuta, adding a diplomatic dispute to the crisis over the mass migrant influx into the Spanish enclave. Read full story →
Syria's embassy in Tripoli has reopened after being closed for more than a decade, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said Sunday during a visit to the Libyan capital. Read full story →
Rescuers pulled 64-year-old Chandrika Shrestha alive from her mud-buried home in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Saturday, 10 days after flooding struck the China-Nepal border region. Read full story →
Nepal’s army said rescuers pulled a Chinese national alive from a mud-blocked hydropower tunnel on Saturday, 10 days after catastrophic flooding struck the China-Nepal border. Read full story →
An orangutan mother and her baby were rescued in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province after wildfire spread near their habitat, conservation authorities said Saturday. Read full story →
Nepal Police said about 1,030 bodies have been buried in mass graves after DNA samples were taken, as rescuers continued searching for survivors from the flood disaster on the China-Nepal border. Read full story →
Two explosions at an army barracks in Viacha, Bolivia, killed at least two people, wounded 81 and left seven missing on Friday, Bolivian authorities said. Read full story →
Indonesia's wildfire haze has directly exposed more than five million people across Borneo and Sumatra to health risks, deputy health minister Dante Saksono Harbuwono said, as smoke from weeks of fires spread to Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. Read full story →
Guinea held a mass funeral Friday for 36 people killed when part of a landfill collapsed in a suburb of Conakry after heavy rains. Read full story →
Hawaii is preparing for possible impacts from Hurricane Lowell, which could pass near the state's westernmost islands early next week while its exact path remains unclear. Read full story →
Wildfires burned about 540,000 hectares across the European Union from June 18 to September 2, after more than 1,000 fires over the summer, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System. Read full story →
The death toll from floods and mudslides after an August 26 glacial and mountain collapse on the China-Nepal border has risen to at least 1,318, with 5,614 people missing, based on figures from Nepal's disaster authority and Chinese state media. Read full story →
Nepal flood survivors in Nuwakot district say they cannot rebuild after floodwaters swept away homes, fields and land, leaving families in temporary shelter or staying with relatives. Read full story →
Malaysia's haze emergency in the Serian division of Sarawak state on Borneo will shut 647 schools and close government and private offices after air pollution reached critical levels. Read full story →
The United Nations appealed Friday for nearly $50 million to help more than 84,000 people in Nepal hit by catastrophic flooding, warning that winter was approaching and that disease risks were rising in affected areas. Read full story →
A glacial mountain collapse on Nepal’s border with China has killed more than 1,300 people and left more than 5,600 missing in the two countries, as scientists examine what caused the August 26 disaster. Read full story →
The death toll from the FiloJet ferry accident off northern Cyprus rose to 12 on Friday after rescuers found the bodies of two women, with 16 people still missing, officials said. Read full story →
The head of the Tunisian League for Human Rights said 20 prisoners have died in detention in Tunisia in recent weeks because of extreme heat, a figure authorities have not confirmed. Read full story →
At least 37 people died early Thursday after inhaling fumes during suspected fuel theft from a pipeline in Rivers State in Nigeria's Niger Delta, the Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre said. Read full story →
Nepal flood survivors in Rasuwa district are facing destroyed villages, washed-out roads and uncertainty days after torrents swept through the Himalayan border area. Read full story →
Nepal’s disaster authority said the flood death toll had risen to 1,259 people, with 5,083 missing after the August 26 Himalayan disaster. Read full story →
Families of people missing after the Tibet flood are posting photos and appeals on Chinese social media as they wait for news, while Chinese state media reported 21 deaths and 541 people missing on the Tibetan side of the China-Nepal border. Read full story →
Families of foreigners missing after the August 26 flood in Nepal's Himalayan border region are searching hospitals, morgues and police information in Kathmandu, as Nepali police say 583 foreigners remain unaccounted for and about 294 have been rescued. Read full story →
Authorities in eastern China's Fujian province closed schools and suspended ferry routes on Thursday after forecasters warned of heavy rain from Typhoon Saudel. Read full story →
Swiss pilgrim Natalia Rjumin-Girardet said a small concrete staircase saved her group from Nepal's deadly August 26 flash flood as a wave of water and mud swept through the Bhotekoshi River area. Read full story →
A Turkish cargo ship sank in the Marmara Sea near Istanbul after colliding with an empty oil tanker before dawn Wednesday, and rescuers were searching for its 10 crew members, Turkish officials said. Read full story →
A passenger bus overturned on a desert highway in Egypt's eastern Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, killing 22 people and injuring 28 others, authorities said. Read full story →
Azerbaijani authorities evacuated 5,000 people after a fire triggered explosions at an ammunition depot near Nizami village in the western Goranboy district overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, officials said. Read full story →
Syrian authorities said at least five people were killed Tuesday when a vehicle carrying munitions exploded in Binnish, in northwest Idlib province. Read full story →
A Philippine couple married on Tuesday in hip-deep floodwater inside a Catholic church in Hagonoy, north of Manila, after heavy rains flooded the parish for nearly a month. Read full story →
Women displaced by Nepal's August 26 flash floods say inadequate toilets, little water and gaps in basic supplies are creating sanitation and menstrual hygiene problems at a school relief camp in Nuwakot district. Read full story →
Exiled Tibetans and advocacy groups accused China of underreporting the death toll from floods in Tibet border regions with Nepal, while Beijing rejected the claims as "malicious smearing and sensationalism". Read full story →
The death toll from floods and a mudslide that tore through Nepal and Chinese-administered Tibet has surpassed 1,000, as memorial services were held in Tibet for victims, Chinese state media reported Tuesday. Read full story →
Emergency workers, officials and residents in Tibet held memorial services on Tuesday for victims of last week’s Nepal-Tibet disaster, as the reported death toll surpassed 1,000. Read full story →
China's Olympic tennis champion Zheng Qinwen has donated one million yuan, about $150,000, to relief efforts after deadly flash floods and landslides on the China-Nepal border, a social media account associated with the China Charity Federation said. Read full story →
One person remained unaccounted for after a deadly weekend flash flood in part of the Grand Canyon, officials said Monday, revising an earlier estimate that about 15 people were being sought. Read full story →
An explosion at a firecracker factory in northern India killed at least 11 people Monday, including eight children, police said. Read full story →
More than 2,500 buildings were destroyed in Nepal's Trishuli valley by August 26 glacial floods, according to an AFP computation of data from Europe's Copernicus observatory. Read full story →
The UK coastguard said Monday it had concluded its search for two fishermen missing after the French fishing vessel Maranello sank in the Channel. Read full story →
At least 4,793 people were listed as missing and 919 were confirmed dead after flash floods and landslides hit the Nepal-Tibet border, according to figures from Nepal's disaster agency and Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Read full story →
About 85 Americans remain missing after the Nepal Himalaya flood, State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Sunday, as authorities in Nepal and China put the overall toll at at least 797 dead and more than 3,000 missing. Read full story →
Austria recorded 646 heat-related deaths in June and July, the country's health agency AGES said Sunday, the highest number it has recorded for those two months. Read full story →
Pakistan has suspended eight officials after a fire killed 14 infants in the maternity ward of a hospital in Islamabad, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said. Read full story →
A landslide has formed a new lake in the Tibet area hit by the Gyirong mudslide, Chinese state media reported Sunday. Read full story →
Ecuador declared a nationwide emergency over El Nino on Saturday, activating emergency committees to coordinate preventive evacuations and other measures, officials said. Read full story →
The United States said on Saturday, August 29, 2026, that it was providing more than $3.6 million in humanitarian aid to Nepal after flooding killed hundreds of people and left close to 3,000 missing. Read full story →
Families affected by a deadly landfill collapse in Guinea's capital asked for help with rehousing and questioned a planned mass burial as President Mamadi Doumbouya visited the Dar es Salam neighbourhood on Saturday. Read full story →
US employers added 162,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate stayed at 4.1 percent, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, while diesel prices hit a record ahead of US midterm elections. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to stop trading with countries with which the United States has a deficit unless the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates. Read full story →
France announced more than one billion euros in emergency support for farmers on Friday after a summer of heatwaves, wildfires and drought, but agricultural groups said the package was too small. Read full story →
The United States added 162,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate stayed at 4.1 percent, government data showed Friday. Read full story →
Global food prices rose 1.9 percent in August from July as drought and conflicts affected commodity markets, UN Food and Agricultural Organization data showed Friday. Read full story →
Brazilian meat exports to the European Union can resume once Brazil shows it complies with the bloc's animal health rules, the EU said after suspending imports from the South American country. Read full story →
German factory orders rose in July for a third month in a row, adding to signs of recovery in the industrial sector of Europe’s biggest economy. Read full story →
White House Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Britain it was choosing "Brussels over America" despite Brexit, warning in an interview with the Financial Times that this could hinder efforts to expand a US-UK trade deal. Read full story →
Cuba has begun implementing major free-market reforms that allow foreigners to invest in real estate and let domestic companies import and export without government intermediaries. Read full story →
Senegal's $2.2 billion staff-level loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund has put the country's debt treatment plan at the centre of its economic and political debate. Read full story →
Canada's trade surplus fell to C$769 million (US$558 million) in July from C$4.2 billion (US$3.1 billion) in June, Statistics Canada said Thursday, as oil and precious metals prices declined. Read full story →
The US trade deficit widened in July to $88.6 billion, its largest level since March 2025, as technology imports rose during the AI build-out, Commerce Department data showed Thursday. Read full story →
India's 7.8 percent year-on-year GDP growth figure for the April-June quarter has come under scrutiny after a former senior finance ministry official said changes to past data may have boosted the headline rate. Read full story →
German growth forecasts for 2026 have been raised by leading research institutes, which said Europe’s biggest economy had withstood the energy shock from the Middle East war better than expected. Read full story →
China urged France to halt its fast-fashion law and warned of countermeasures, adding to opposition to a measure targeting high-volume, low-cost clothing sellers. Read full story →
New US tariffs of up to 100% took effect Thursday on drones and certain components, as Washington seeks to reduce reliance on imports in an industry dominated by China. Read full story →
Traditional gristmills in Appalachia are drawing renewed interest from millers, chefs and food advocates who say stone-ground grains can help support healthier, smaller-scale food production in the United States. Read full story →
Argentine President Javier Milei said Wednesday that austerity was “not up for discussion” and that he would not soften his fiscal policies ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Read full story →
US private-sector employers added 38,000 jobs in August, the slowest pace since the start of the year, payroll firm ADP said Wednesday. Read full story →
France's finance ministry said Wednesday that drought and record heatwaves this summer will shave 0.1 percent off the country's economic growth this year. Read full story →
G20 finance leaders ended two days of talks in Asheville, North Carolina, on Tuesday with a chair's statement backed in full by all participants except China, while US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov's attendance had not affected the meeting. Read full story →
G20 finance leaders, excluding China, urged “free, safe, and predictable” navigation through the Strait of Hormuz in a statement released at the close of US-hosted talks on Tuesday. Read full story →
US manufacturing activity expanded more slowly in August, with new orders and imports weakening, the Institute of Supply Management said Tuesday. Read full story →
Brazil's economy grew 0.5 percent in the second quarter from the previous quarter, slowing from 1.1 percent growth in the first quarter, the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute said Tuesday. Read full story →
A federation of European textile associations called Tuesday for a €10 handling fee on fashion imports into the European Union, in the latest effort to curb ultra-cheap competition mainly from China. Read full story →
Eurozone inflation rose to 3.3 percent in August, its highest level in three years, as energy costs increased, official European Union data showed Tuesday. Read full story →
Japan eased overtime oversight on September 1, ending labour office pressure on some companies to keep monthly overtime at 45 hours despite criticism that the change weakens safeguards against overwork. Read full story →
Brazil's government said Monday that it had resumed talks with the United States over trade tariffs imposed by Washington. Read full story →
The European Union will suspend imports of Brazilian meat and other animal products from Thursday, the European Commission said, pending assurances that Brazil is complying with the bloc's animal health rules. Read full story →
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that Washington would keep economic pressure on Iran and that a turning point in the campaign could come “within weeks or months” as G20 finance leaders opened talks in Asheville, North Carolina. Read full story →
Germany’s inflation rate rose to 2.9% in August from 2.8% in July, preliminary figures from statistics agency Destatis showed Monday, as energy costs increased. Read full story →
Sri Lanka's inflation reached a 38-month high of 8.0 percent in August as prices for food and other essentials rose, the government's statistics office said Monday. Read full story →
India's gross domestic product grew 7.8 percent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, official data showed on Monday, as services helped sustain growth in Asia's third-largest economy. Read full story →
Prices of more than 1,700 grocery and school supplies items in Greece fell by an average of 9.5 percent on Monday under a government-backed measure aimed at easing pressure on household budgets. Read full story →
India's economy grew 7.8% in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, official data showed Monday, as domestic demand and services supported activity despite higher costs linked to the Iran war. Read full story →
Renters in Abidjan are struggling to find affordable, decent homes as Ivory Coast's economic capital grows and housing supply fails to keep pace. Read full story →
China's factory activity contracted in August for a second straight month, official data showed Monday, with the manufacturing purchasing managers' index at 49.8, below the 50 line separating expansion from contraction. Read full story →
Zheng'an, a town in China's Guizhou province, has grown into a guitar manufacturing and export hub, producing about one in seven guitars sold worldwide. Read full story →
Vietnam's durian boom is drawing coffee farmers in the Central Highlands toward the Chinese market, where demand for the fruit has reshaped planting decisions in one of the world's major coffee-growing regions. Read full story →
Hungarian universities suspended from the EU's Erasmus youth mobility programme can return to the scheme, Education and Child Affairs Minister Judit Lannert said on Friday. Read full story →
Fyodor Dostoevsky's 19th-century novella “White Nights” has become a bestseller in Brazil after gaining attention on TikTok, nearly 180 years after its release. Read full story →
Private schools in the United States could lose their tax-exempt status if they consider race in admissions, scholarships or similar areas under proposed rules issued Thursday by the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service. Read full story →
Philippine schools held active-intruder drills on Thursday, September 3, with about 3,000 students at Carlos F. Read full story →
New York City is banning public school students from using artificial intelligence until high school, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday. Read full story →
Cuban children began the new school year Tuesday amid shortages of teachers, food and uniforms, with many schools also facing power cuts during the island's energy crisis. Read full story →
France's ban on mobile phones in high schools came into force on Tuesday, with President Emmanuel Macron defending the measure as pupils and staff began adapting to the new rules. Read full story →
Educators, volunteers and charities in the United States are working to teach students about the September 11 attacks, 25 years after the 2001 events and as more teachers and students have no personal memory of them. Read full story →
Armed factions in Syria's Druze-majority Sweida province blocked students from travelling to official exams on Saturday, prompting the United Nations to call for children to be able to access education without pressure or movement restrictions. Read full story →
The Alternative for Germany hopes to take power in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt in Sunday's election, a result AFP says would be a first for a far-right party in post-war Germany. Read full story →
The US midterm election season opened on September 4 as North Carolina began sending mail ballots, while a federal judge extended a temporary block on President Donald Trump's plan to impose new mail-voting requirements. Read full story →
A US federal judge has extended a block on President Donald Trump's bid to curb mail-in ballots, issuing a preliminary injunction that bars the US Postal Service from carrying out the plan before November's midterm elections. Read full story →
Guinea-Bissau's electoral commission has validated final results from a constitutional referendum in which voters backed giving the president greater power. Read full story →
A possible AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt's regional election on Sunday is raising security concerns in Germany, including over intelligence work, police priorities and access to sensitive information. Read full story →
Zack Polanski, leader of Britain's Green Party, announced on September 3 that he intends to seek the party's candidacy for the Holborn and St Pancras parliamentary by-election in London. Read full story →
Daniel Ortega called the United States the “enemy” of countries like Nicaragua after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged international partners to “stop business as usual” with Managua over constitutional reforms restricting opposition participation in elections. Read full story →
Ulrich Siegmund is campaigning to make the Alternative for Germany the strongest party in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday and become the AfD's first state premier. Read full story →
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany could move closer to leading its first state government in Saxony-Anhalt, where polls put the party ahead before the regional election on September 6, 2026. Read full story →
Brazilian psychiatrist and self-help author Augusto Cury has reached 10 percent in a Quaest poll for the October presidential election, placing him behind Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Flavio Bolsonaro but ahead of other candidates. Read full story →
Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez said Wednesday that the country would hold elections “when ready,” rejecting calls for a quick vote. Read full story →
Polls currently put Marine Le Pen ahead in France's 2027 presidential race as divided moderate and left-wing forces struggle to unite before the vote. Read full story →
Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro was cleared Tuesday of a possible electoral-law violation after showing an AI-generated video of his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, endorsing him. Read full story →
Guinea-Bissau voters approved a new constitution that will give the president more powers, with the “yes” camp winning 70 percent of the vote, the National Electoral Commission said Tuesday. Read full story →
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday while main opposition leader Brian Mundubile, the runner-up in last month's election, remained in jail on treason charges he denies. Read full story →
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party won three special elections on Monday, strengthening his parliamentary majority as Canada's trade dispute with the United States escalates. Read full story →
Former Israeli police official Yoav Segalovitz will run on the election list of Raam, a moderate Islamist party, in Israel's October 27 election, party leader Mansour Abbas announced Monday. Read full story →
The AfD is leading opinion polls in Saxony-Anhalt before a state election, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned on Sunday that a far-right state government would damage the eastern German region. Read full story →
Representatives of Libya's rival political groups signed a UN-backed agreement in Tripoli on Sunday that sets a conditional goal of holding legislative and presidential elections within 24 months. Read full story →
Iceland's rejection of renewed European Union membership talks has prompted warnings in Brussels that the bloc cannot take its appeal for granted, while EU leaders said they respected the referendum result. Read full story →
Former French prime minister Edouard Philippe called on Sunday for a new party or alliance to bring together the centre and the right as moderates seek to prevent Marine Le Pen from coming to power. Read full story →
Jordan Bardella, president of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party, accused left-wing parties on Saturday of seeking to “undermine civil peace” if Le Pen wins France's presidential election next spring. Read full story →
Drivers queued outside fuel stations in Baghdad on Saturday as gasoline supplies fell in Iraq because of import disruptions linked to the Middle East war. Read full story →
Several hundred coca farmers and supporters of former Bolivian president Evo Morales demonstrated in Cochabamba on Friday against Bolivia's diesel price increases, defying a state of emergency that bans such gatherings. Read full story →
US diesel prices rose to a record $5.85 a gallon on Friday, up from $3.71 a year earlier, the AAA motorists' association said, as the US war with Iran continued to disrupt energy markets. Read full story →
Britain's government is set to approve drilling at the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea this month, the BBC and other British media reported Friday, citing government and industry sources. Read full story →
Germany's PCK Schwedt refinery is still running three years after it stopped relying on Russian oil, but its managers and workers say new supply routes, sanctions risks and unresolved ownership questions are creating uncertainty. Read full story →
Bolivia has put state oil company YPFB under temporary state supervision as the country struggles with scarce fuel and long queues at filling stations. Read full story →
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright denied that Washington was “stealing Venezuelan oil” as he defended a sweeping energy opening that is set to give the United States majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil. Read full story →
Venezuela's leader said a Trump oil deal was for the country's “well-being”, adding a supportive statement to a wider energy opening involving Venezuela and the United States. Read full story →
Uganda officially named its oil “Pearl Sweet” on Wednesday as it prepared to begin first exports by the end of the year. Read full story →
France's natural gas storage was 71.3 percent full as winter approached, a level the country's energy regulator described as relatively reassuring, while European gas prices rose. Read full story →
Germany is seeking long-term gas contracts with Algeria to diversify its energy supply, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said in Algiers, as German gas storage stood at 53% full. Read full story →
China's installed solar power capacity surpassed coal-fired power capacity for the first time by the end of July, the National Energy Administration said Tuesday. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump will meet oil refining executives on Tuesday as his administration tries to bring down gas prices, the White House said Monday. Read full story →
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele denied on Friday that the country had transferred its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve to a private operator as part of a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund. Read full story →
S&P downgraded Senegal's sovereign credit rating to “CC” on Friday and assigned a negative outlook, citing a debt restructuring plan linked to the country's $2.2 billion agreement with the International Monetary Fund. Read full story →
The IMF said Thursday it had reached a preliminary deal with El Salvador that could unlock about $140 million in fresh funding under the country's austerity reform programme. Read full story →
British digital bank Revolut said Thursday it had won conditional approval for a US banking licence, moving it closer to launching as a national bank in the United States. Read full story →
Federal Reserve Governor Chris Waller said he would be prepared to support an interest rate increase at the US central bank’s September 15-16 meeting if new data shows inflation has accelerated. Read full story →
France sold benchmark 10-year government bonds at a 4.23 percent rate on Thursday, the highest auction rate since 2008. Read full story →
The Japanese yen rose more than 1% against the dollar on Thursday, strengthening to 158.12 per dollar by around 0700 GMT from 159.91 earlier. Read full story →
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that US economic activity grew modestly from early July, but that high energy prices, policy issues and the Iran war were adding uncertainty and weighing on businesses and households. Read full story →
Canada's central bank held its benchmark interest rate at 2.25% on Wednesday for the seventh straight time, while warning that the trade war with the United States has made the growth outlook more uncertain and increased inflation risks. Read full story →
The US Treasury issued $1 coins featuring President Donald Trump's face on Wednesday, and the US Mint said the coins were "also in circulation". Read full story →
India's central bank said banks raised $127.23 billion through a foreign currency deposit scheme as of August 31, after a campaign to draw on the savings of Indians living abroad. Read full story →
Lebanon's central bank said an outside firm has begun a new forensic audit of selected past transactions linked to its foreign assets, as the country continues to deal with the fallout from its economic collapse. Read full story →
The Dutch central bank said it moved 86 tonnes of gold reserves from the United States and Canada to London, citing increasing geopolitical unrest and a need to make the reserves easier to use in a crisis. Read full story →
Taiwanese investors are borrowing to buy stocks after an AI-linked rally lifted the island's market, bringing large gains for some traders and warnings from authorities about debt risks. Read full story →
UBS welcomed a Swiss parliamentary committee's proposed compromise on tougher capital reserve rules, but warned Tuesday that the plan would still raise costs for the bank. Read full story →
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said she did not discuss interest-rate increases with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after meeting him on the sidelines of the G20 finance meeting in North Carolina. Read full story →
Indonesia's parliament confirmed Destry Damayanti as central bank governor on Sept. Read full story →
The United Arab Emirates central bank will carry out a special and urgent review of Banque Misr's branches in the country after US measures targeting the Egyptian bank's UAE operations. Read full story →
Bangladesh's measles outbreak has killed at least 986 children since March and pushed suspected and confirmed cases above 180,000, the health ministry says, as hospitals treat many sick babies and young children. Read full story →
Psilocybin prevented the development of chemotherapy-related nerve pain in rats, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. Read full story →
New Zealand has approved the use of pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to treat severe post-traumatic stress disorder, with two psychiatrists allowed to prescribe it under controlled conditions. Read full story →
At least 725 pupils and 25 teachers in Rembang, on Indonesia’s Java Island, fell ill after eating a free school lunch, their principal said Thursday. Read full story →
Dutch health authorities said nine cases of mosquito-transmitted West Nile virus had been registered in recent weeks, after the Netherlands earlier reported one death from the disease. Read full story →
Belgium recorded 2,935 excess deaths during successive heatwaves since June, the national public health institute Sciensano said on September 3. Read full story →
Germany recorded a record 16,300 heat-related deaths from June 1 to August 23 during Europe's severe summer heatwaves, official data from the Robert Koch Institute showed Thursday. Read full story →
Scott McTominay said he was feeling fine after Napoli said he needed surgery for a mild benign heart rhythm issue. Read full story →
A coalition of US medical groups issued vaccine guidance for seasonal respiratory viruses on Wednesday, aiming to give advice while federal recommendations are delayed. Read full story →
Trials for three potential vaccines against the Ebola strain driving the Democratic Republic of Congo's deadliest recorded outbreak should begin in October or November, the World Health Organization said on September 2. Read full story →
Denmark will stop offering fertility treatment in the public healthcare system to men over 55 from January, authorities said Tuesday, citing health risks for children conceived through the procedures. Read full story →
Finland has introduced new measures to combat African swine fever after cases in the country continued to rise since July, the government said Tuesday. Read full story →
Nigeria's government says it wants to decriminalise attempted suicide, arguing that punishment deters people in crisis from seeking help. Read full story →
The UN says 100 clinics that treated child malnutrition have closed across Afghanistan as international aid falls, while the Red Cross warned that Afghans should not be abandoned. Read full story →
A woman suffered burns while giving birth by caesarean section at a Prague hospital, the hospital said Monday. Read full story →
Injuries to leading tennis players have renewed concern about the sport as the US Open begins in New York, with Jannik Sinner absent because of a knee injury and several other players missing major tournaments in 2026. Read full story →
Enthusiasts in Iceland are asking authorities to open the grave of poet and naturalist Jonas Hallgrimsson to check whether the remains buried there are really his. Read full story →
Students and campus figures have accused Argentina House in Paris of restricting residents' freedoms, while Paris city officials have asked France's foreign ministry to investigate the Argentina-run university residence. Read full story →
Tunisian authorities detained journalist Mohamed Yousfi on Friday as he arrived for a radio interview, the programme host and the head of Tunisia's journalists' union said. Read full story →
The Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 followed years of siege and was later ruled a genocide by an international court. Read full story →
Elena Zhemkova, the head of Russia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group Memorial, told AFP she fears a fresh crackdown after September's legislative elections, including more arrests and people being sent to fight in Ukraine. Read full story →
India batter Smriti Mandhana has become the leading run-scorer in women’s international cricket after making 124 off 64 balls against Hong Kong in the Women’s Asia Cup in Dubai. Read full story →
Taiwan said Friday it had provided temporary accommodation on humanitarian grounds to a Chinese national transferring through a Taiwanese airport, after ChinaAid said a Beijing lawyer for detained Zion Church leaders had arrived on the island seeking protection. Read full story →
AFP has listed five selected features from sub-Saharan Africa for republication, covering migration, culture, illegal mining, urban transport and colonial-era heritage. Read full story →
Six former plantation estates in Sao Tome and Principe, built on slavery and forced labour, have recently been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, creating a new preservation challenge for the Gulf of Guinea archipelago. Read full story →
Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting said she considered retiring after winning Olympic gold in Paris, but chose to continue in part to answer those who questioned her eligibility. Read full story →
In Myanmar's lethwei heartland of Hpa-an, more than 100 teenagers and young adults trained in the bareknuckle martial art as the country remained consumed by civil war. Read full story →
New York's Muslim communities are describing a changed city 25 years after the September 11 attacks, pointing to the election of Zohran Mamdani as the city's first Muslim mayor, public prayers in Times Square and new mosques, while saying Islamophobia persists. Read full story →
Gloria Steinem, the American journalist, author and activist who became one of the best-known figures of the feminist movement, has died at 92, Gloria's Foundation said Thursday. Read full story →
Israeli athletes who were due to compete in the City of Derry Triathlon in Londonderry this weekend will no longer take part, race organisers said Thursday. Read full story →
Liechtenstein's princely house said Thursday that Hereditary Prince Alois opposes a proposal to legalise abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, a day after parliament narrowly backed the citizens' initiative. Read full story →
The United Nations rights chief urged Sri Lanka to do more to end what he called entrenched impunity for war crimes and other abuses after the country's decades-long conflict. Read full story →
Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic's body arrived in Serbia on Thursday and was received with military honours after being returned from The Hague. Read full story →
A Jerusalem cafe that had been picketed for weeks by observant Jews said Thursday it had agreed to close on the Sabbath, after protests by ultra-Orthodox Jews and counter-protests by secular Israelis. Read full story →
UN-appointed investigators urged Iran on Thursday to withdraw a draft bill that they said could expose journalists, academics, activists and others to up to 30 years in prison for contact with foreign entities. Read full story →
Norwegian People's Aid said Thursday it would end cooperation with the United States because it rejects conditions attached to US aid, a move it said would cut more than $40 million in funding and require around 1,700 job reductions. Read full story →
Rights groups said an Iranian court has sentenced Ali Zarei, a 27-year-old man blinded in one eye during Iran’s 2022 protests, to death after he returned from Germany. Read full story →
Britain's Defence Secretary Wes Streeting urged LGBT military veterans dismissed or harmed under the former ban on their service to apply for compensation before the December 12 deadline. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was glad Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had left the United States, after the couple moved back to Britain from their home in Montecito, California. Read full story →
George Clooney received a lifetime achievement award as the 83rd Venice Film Festival opened on September 2, after criticising the US government under President Donald Trump. Read full story →
Gina Romero, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association, voiced “grave concern” on Wednesday over Zambia's shrinking political space and called for the release of political detainees. Read full story →
A Glenlivet whisky advertisement invoking South Africa's 1956 anti-apartheid women's march has drawn backlash from families of women linked to the historic protest, who accused the brand of turning liberation history into a marketing prop. Read full story →
The Taliban government defended Afghanistan's ban on protests on Wednesday, saying the order complies with Islamic law after rights groups condemned it as an attempt to suppress dissent. Read full story →
Kenyan journalist Alex Kiprotich was found nine hours after masked men reportedly seized him near Nakuru on Tuesday night, his employer The Standard said, prompting condemnation from media and rights groups. Read full story →
LGBTQ people in Indonesia say they are living with growing fear as public attacks, hostile official language and proposed restrictions put more pressure on a community already used to hiding. Read full story →
The Bayeux Tapestry will go on display in London from September 10, in its first exhibition in the city after a loan from the Bayeux Museum in Normandy. Read full story →
Several thousand Bosnian Serbs gathered in Banja Luka on Tuesday to pay tribute to Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander who died while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Read full story →
A coalition of Ugandan and Kenyan activists on Tuesday blamed Kenya for the plight of Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye, whose health is deteriorating as he faces treason charges in Uganda. Read full story →
The World Food Programme said funding cuts are forcing it to halve the number of people it reaches with food aid in the West Bank, from 400,000 to 200,000 from September. Read full story →
Most civilian victims of Afghanistan's 2001-2021 war have been left “without justice, reparation or even acknowledgement” of their suffering, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said Tuesday. Read full story →
Twenty African civil society organisations have demanded an independent, official investigation after six bodies were found bound and blindfolded in a mass grave in southwestern Guinea. Read full story →
A United Nations watchdog says countries involved in the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th to the 19th century are legally obliged to compensate for the harm they caused. Read full story →
Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo has returned to Tehran after nearly two decades in exile, drawing praise from official media and criticism from a video attributed to his wife. Read full story →
Israel will deport British activist Finn Joughin on Monday after he was seized and assaulted by settlers in the occupied West Bank and then transferred to police custody, his lawyer Inbar Shaked Vardi said. Read full story →
South Korea's women's football federation said Monday it was investigating allegations that a referee insulted former Chelsea midfielder Ji So-yun during a domestic match by referring to menstruation. Read full story →
A United Nations committee said Monday that countries are legally obliged to provide broad reparations for harms linked to direct and indirect involvement in the transatlantic African slave trade. Read full story →
President Donald Trump threatened NBC journalist Kristen Welker with possible punishment by US media regulators after criticising her coverage of his candidate endorsements before November's midterm elections. Read full story →
Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the United States to Britain after being arrested at New Orleans International Airport, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday. Read full story →
Traffic in and out of the Port of Dover in southern England was stopped on Saturday after dozens of masked people reportedly protesting Channel migrant crossings blocked access to the terminal. Read full story →
The Panama Canal began reducing ship crossings on Friday because drought linked to El Nino has lowered water levels in the artificial lakes that feed the waterway, the Panama Canal Authority said. Read full story →
Air India said it fired the captain of an Airbus A320 that suddenly lost altitude on an August 4 flight from Phuket to New Delhi, after investigators said he was found non-negative for a psychoactive substance in a confirmatory test. Read full story →
South Africa’s aviation regulator is reviewing a low Airlink flyover above Cape Town stadium that sparked an international safety debate, while the airline has cancelled its next planned flypast because of poor weather. Read full story →
Simon Bolivar International Airport near Caracas resumed commercial flights on Tuesday after damage from the June 24 earthquakes that killed more than 6,500 people. Read full story →
Kenyan aviation workers have called off a strike that paralysed the country's main international airport for two days, while Kenya Airways warned that delays would continue until Wednesday. Read full story →
French rail start-up Velvet said Tuesday it had won an initial licence to operate on high-speed lines currently dominated by state-owned SNCF. Read full story →
Lisbon's Gloria funicular will be replaced after an accident last year killed 16 people, Portuguese authorities announced Monday. Read full story →
India's fast-growing aviation sector is facing safety, regulatory and financial pressure after problems at Air India and IndiGo, the country's two dominant carriers. Read full story →
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte posted bail at a Manila courthouse on Saturday, a day after an arrest warrant was issued over an alleged death threat against President Ferdinand Marcos, his wife and a congressman cousin. Read full story →
Ratko Mladic is due to be buried in Belgrade on Monday, with thousands expected to honour the convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal despite his life sentence for atrocities committed during the war in Bosnia. Read full story →
Brazil's Supreme Court is facing a widening crisis over messages banker Daniel Vorcaro sent to a phone number attributed to Justice Alexandre de Moraes before Vorcaro's arrest in the Banco Master fraud case. Read full story →
Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic is due to be buried on September 7 after his death in prison on August 27, drawing attention to the fates of other major figures from the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Read full story →
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, 2026, in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman who killed her three young children, after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Read full story →
Nabila Habiby, who admitted fraud over former Dutch footballer Edgar Davids’s art collection, failed to appear at Wood Green Crown Court in north London on September 4 for sentencing after her lawyer said she had been hit on the head by luggage on her way to the airport. Read full story →
Colombian former leader Alvaro Uribe denied responsibility Friday for two 1990s massacres and the killing of a human rights defender ahead of a hearing about his alleged role in the events. Read full story →
An Argentine judge said Friday that an 18th-century painting stolen by Nazis from Dutch Jewish art collector Jacques Goudstikker will be returned to his heir after an agreement between the parties. Read full story →
Kosovo prosecutors brought charges Friday against 35 former Serbian police over the killing of around 60 people in Prekaz in March 1998, including many relatives of Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari. Read full story →
Two former employees of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias have filed another complaint against him in Spain for alleged sexual abuse and forced labour, the advocacy group representing them said Friday. Read full story →
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday in Lindsay Clancy's case over the killing of her three children, but put the ruling on hold for one hour so her lawyer could appeal to a higher court. Read full story →
Turkish prosecutors charged comedian Deniz Goktas with insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other offences over a June stand-up performance, in a case that could lead to years in prison if he is convicted. Read full story →
Six members of the Swiss far-right Junge Tat movement went on trial in Zurich on Friday on charges including inciting hatred over disruptions of LGBTQ events. Read full story →
A Swiss court on Friday acquitted five people charged with homicide by negligence after a 2017 landslide killed eight hikers and destroyed part of the village of Bondo in the Swiss Alps. Read full story →
Sri Lankan lawmaker Namal Rajapaksa, the son of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was ordered held for two weeks on Friday after anti-graft authorities accused him of receiving $800,000 linked to a 2013 Airbus aircraft deal. Read full story →
UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed has pardoned Abdul Rahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the son of the late Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the United Arab Emirates' official WAM news agency said Friday. Read full story →
The captain of an oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship off Istanbul has been arrested with the tanker's third officer on negligent homicide charges, prosecutors said. Read full story →
Lindsay Clancy's defense accused a single holdout juror on Thursday of blocking a verdict in the Massachusetts mother's trial over the deaths of her three children. Read full story →
A Moscow court on Thursday placed Russian charity director Lida Moniava under a curfew and communications restrictions in a case accusing her of spreading “false information” about the army. Read full story →
Christian Castro, a suspended Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is facing a federal charge of lying to investigators about the January 14 shooting of Venezuelan migrant Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis. Read full story →
Tunisia's Court of Cassation on Thursday rejected the final appeal of 34 opposition figures accused of plotting against the state, upholding prison sentences of up to 45 years, lawyer Haifa Chebbi said. Read full story →
A top court in Argentina's Mendoza province on Thursday dismissed rape charges against French rugby players Oscar Jegou and Hugo Auradou, upholding rulings from two lower courts, a lawyer for the accuser said. Read full story →
Apple faces a £2 billion lawsuit from UK app developers who accuse the company of giving its own advertising services an unfair advantage through its app tracking privacy rules. Read full story →
Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela urged “sympathy, prudence and caution” after the acquittal of businessman Yorgen Fenech over the 2017 car-bomb murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia sparked protests and anger from media freedom groups. Read full story →
Real Madrid defender Raul Asencio was cleared Thursday by a Spanish court of distributing an explicit video involving a minor, shortly after coach Jose Mourinho said he faced club discipline over a separate drink-driving conviction. Read full story →
Venezuela's ousted leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have asked a US judge to dismiss federal drug trafficking and firearms charges, arguing that they have immunity as president and first lady of a sovereign country. Read full story →
The United States announced Thursday the return of Roman-era sarcophagus fragments to Lebanon after an FBI investigation recovered antiquities described as looted from the southern city of Tyre. Read full story →
Uber drivers from across Europe have filed a class action lawsuit against the US ride-hailing company, claiming it violated privacy laws and used dynamic pricing algorithms to reduce their income. Read full story →
A Vietnam court sentenced 11 people to death and jailed more than 200 others for trafficking illegal drugs hidden in toothpaste tubes from France and related charges, state media said on September 3. Read full story →
Survivors and relatives of people killed when apartheid police opened fire on a 1960 protest have launched legal action against the South African government, Lawyers for Human Rights said Thursday. Read full story →
Turkish prosecutors said Thursday they were investigating former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu over comments on social media that were viewed as insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Read full story →
The US government has sided with OpenAI in a copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times, defending the use of copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence models in a court document filed on September 1. Read full story →
A Hong Kong court upheld the convictions of Cardinal Joseph Zen and other dissidents Thursday over a multimillion-dollar fund that helped people arrested during the 2019 anti-government protests. Read full story →
A US federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new executive order limiting who qualifies for birthright citizenship. Read full story →
France’s financial prosecutor’s office has asked investigating judges to send former Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam and three other people to trial over alleged corruption linked to the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. Read full story →
Tiger Woods had his driver's license suspended for five years on Wednesday after reaching a plea agreement in a case stemming from a March rollover crash in Florida. Read full story →
A US federal judge refused on Wednesday to force Google to sell part of its digital advertising business, rejecting the government's bid to break up part of the company's ad operation. Read full story →
British former glam rock star Gary Glitter pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to eight charges of sexual offences against a young girl dating back to the 1970s and 1980s. Read full story →
Nicolas Maduro Guerra said photos of his father, deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, in a US detention center were taken by prison staff and mailed to the family. Read full story →
Vietnamese police arrested Deputy Health Minister Tran Van Thuan on Wednesday on allegations that he accepted bribes involving a large sum of money, the public security ministry said. Read full story →
Bangladesh has released Lesedi Molapisi, a 33-year-old Botswana woman sentenced to death for drug trafficking, and she was expected to return home Wednesday, the Botswana government said. Read full story →
Czech police began exhuming the remains of former Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk on Wednesday as they investigate his 1948 death as a suspected murder. Read full story →
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sept. Read full story →
French filmmaker Gael Mocaer and local fixer Fred Vedomey have been provisionally released in Togo after being detained since July on charges of making “false statements,” their lawyer Martial Akakpo said Wednesday. Read full story →
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to foreign collusion in a second national security trial, a charge that can carry life imprisonment. Read full story →
Masami Kurumada, the Japanese author of the manga series "Saint Seiya", said on Wednesday in Tokyo that he is suing a former business associate accused of embezzling $29 million from his businesses over more than a decade. Read full story →
Tyler James Robinson, the 23-year-old defendant accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, pleaded not guilty after a Utah judge ruled that he must stand trial for murder, US media reported. Read full story →
A judge in Argentina charged two former medical officials Tuesday over their alleged involvement in contaminated fentanyl linked to at least 90 deaths in 2025. Read full story →
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes faced new scrutiny Tuesday after a federal police report seen by AFP detailed WhatsApp messages sent to him by Daniel Vorcaro, the former Banco Master chief, seeking help to halt a corruption probe. Read full story →
A United Nations-backed armed force helping Haitian police fight gangs will not be fully staffed by October as planned, its spokesperson said Tuesday. Read full story →
A Honduran judge on Tuesday dismissed a corruption case against former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been accused of embezzling $2 million in public funds to finance his 2013 presidential campaign. Read full story →
New York's climate superfund law was struck down by a federal judge on Monday, wiping out a measure that would have required fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion for damage linked to their historic greenhouse gas emissions. Read full story →
A Madagascar court sentenced former gendarmerie general Richard Ravalomanana to 10 years of hard labour over a crackdown on protests last year, local media reported on Tuesday. Read full story →
Iraq's judiciary said Tuesday it had completed questioning 5,704 Islamic State group suspects transferred from northeast Syria and referred their cases to trial. Read full story →
India's Supreme Court on Tuesday called off criminal investigations against most protesters who joined demonstrations over a leaked medical exam paper that forced the education minister to resign. Read full story →
French prisons held 89,668 inmates on August 1, a new high that pushed occupancy to a record 141.6 percent, justice ministry data showed Tuesday. Read full story →
A former Japanese prosecutor who accused Osaka's then top prosecutor of raping her said Tuesday that prosecutors' offices need reform and that victims' allegations are not properly investigated. Read full story →
Mexican senator Enrique Inzunza, who is wanted by the United States on drug trafficking charges, said on Monday that he would not become a protected witness for US authorities. Read full story →
A Sri Lankan court jailed former aviation minister Piyankara Jayaratne for seven years on Tuesday over government money used to buy lunch for voters attending a ruling party May Day rally. Read full story →
A South Korean police officer was accused of lying to close more than two dozen missing-person cases, including two involving people later found dead on Jeju, authorities said Tuesday. Read full story →
A Thai criminal court sentenced activist Tantawan Tuatulanon to two years in prison after convicting her under Thailand's lese-majeste law over a 2022 livestream near a royal motorcade, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said. Read full story →
A North Carolina grand jury indicted Sarah Santiago, 17, on August 31 on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder over the May 18 attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego in California. Read full story →
Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been found guilty by a Las Vegas court of murdering rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996. Read full story →
The US Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon on Monday, accusing the company of manipulating online ad auctions and overcharging about 1.2 million advertising customers by more than $20 billion. Read full story →
The US Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to continue construction of his White House ballroom, lifting a lower-court order that had halted most work while a lawsuit continues. Read full story →
A French court on Monday ordered the Deauville Sports Images Festival to put back on display a withdrawn photo of two Gaza football teams on a pitch surrounded by destroyed buildings. Read full story →
Polish prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation on Monday into a fire at a drone factory in the central city of Skarzysko-Kamienna. Read full story →
Rights groups said Iranian courts have sentenced two women to death in separate cases linked to anti-government protests in Isfahan in January. Read full story →
Ten Iranian fishermen who had been missing in Gulf waters since early August are alive in the United Arab Emirates and expected to return home this week, Iran's foreign ministry said Monday. Read full story →
An Iraqi court sentenced Amir Rahim Jabbar to 15 years in prison over the kidnapping of US journalist Shelly Kittleson, a judicial source said Monday. Read full story →
Swiss prosecutors said Monday that one person has been placed in pre-trial detention in a criminal investigation into an August 21 apartment-block fire in Thusis that killed four foreign nationals. Read full story →
Marius Borg Hoiby, the son of Norway's queen, will be allowed to leave house arrest to attend the funeral of King Harald V, police said Monday. Read full story →
Sri Lanka's former finance minister Ravi Karunanayake was arrested Monday after the country's anti-corruption body questioned him over allegations that state funds were used to pay private employees. Read full story →
A Finnish court on Monday reduced the life sentence of Vojislav Torden, a Russian neo-Nazi convicted of war crimes, to 12 years and six months in a case tied to a 2014 ambush in Ukraine. Read full story →
A South Korean court sentenced Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja to two years in prison on Monday on charges of bribing officials, including former first lady Kim Keon Hee. Read full story →
El Salvador has postponed the Monday court date at which verdicts were expected in a mass trial of 485 alleged leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13. Read full story →
Zambian opposition leader Brian Mundubile and his running mate Makebi Zulu have been formally charged with treason, their lawyer Kambwa Aongola told AFP, after they were taken into custody in a case that has raised concerns over political dissent. Read full story →
An Iraqi anti-corruption court has sentenced Deputy Oil Minister for Distribution Affairs Ali al-Bahadli to seven years in prison for illicit gains, Iraq's Commission of Integrity said Sunday. Read full story →
Moroccan media have criticised a Spanish police report that accused Morocco's security forces of failures during the mass migrant influx into Spain's North African territory of Ceuta. Read full story →
Five European Union countries are seeking a deal with a non-EU country to host a return hub for migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected, with the aim of making it operational by 2027. Read full story →
British hard-right leader Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella, president of France's far-right National Rally, signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to cooperate on ending small boat migrant crossings if their anti-immigration parties enter government. Read full story →
Cambodian families displaced by last year's border clashes with Thailand are trying to rebuild their lives in new government-built villages near the frontier, but many say they still want to return home. Read full story →
An anti-migrant protest in Durban, South Africa, turned violent on Thursday, with police reporting one arrest and a community leader saying five Congolese nationals were hurt. Read full story →
Bosnian border police said nearly 100 migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan were stopped near the Croatian border while trying to enter the European Union illegally. Read full story →
Spanish rescuers said five African migrants died on the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands, while a migrant aid NGO said the toll could be far higher. Read full story →
Myanmar pledged on Thursday to support "safe and dignified" returns for displaced citizens abroad, as Malaysia prepares to repatriate nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals in late September despite concerns from the United Nations and rights groups. Read full story →
Aminata Boye, a 48-year-old Senegalese woman whose son disappeared while trying to migrate by sea, has become a leading support figure for families in Mbour who have lost relatives on the Atlantic route to Europe. Read full story →
Protests over the migrant crisis in Spain's North African territory of Ceuta drew tens of thousands of people across Spain on Wednesday, one month after more than 70,000 migrants crossed from Morocco. Read full story →
Climate-driven drought is pushing thousands of Angolans, mainly women and children, into Namibia, where they face harsh treatment and forcible return, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Read full story →
Thailand will cut visa-free tourist stays for visitors from more than 60 countries and territories to 30 days from September 15, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Read full story →
The number of small boats carrying migrants across the Channel to the UK this summer fell to a seven-year low, the UK government said on August 31, as ministers cited a new enforcement deal with France. Read full story →
Germany has authorised Taliban government representatives to enter the country for a short stay to help coordinate more deportations of Afghan nationals, the German government said Monday. Read full story →
Italy and Spain have extended reciprocal border checks for 15 days in a dispute linked to last month's large migrant influx into Ceuta, the Spanish territory in North Africa. Read full story →
Some migrants in Saxony-Anhalt say they are considering leaving the eastern German state as the far-right Alternative for Germany campaigns on a promised “deportation and remigration offensive” before a regional election. Read full story →
Four Moroccan migrants were arrested in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on Saturday after stones were thrown at a patrol of Spanish soldiers, a police spokesman told AFP. Read full story →
Rwanda has confirmed that representatives from several European countries visited this week for talks on possible transit arrangements for deported migrants. Read full story →
Thousands of opposition supporters began a long march across Bangladesh on Saturday to protest shortages of cooking gas, electricity and fertiliser, increasing pressure on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s government. Read full story →
Tetris said Friday it did not give the White House permission to use the game's imagery in an online arcade game released by US President Donald Trump's administration. Read full story →
Republicans in Congress announced on September 4 that they were investigating nonprofit environmental groups over litigation against policies they describe as pro-growth. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump said on September 4 that he will use the Qatar-gifted Air Force One for a trip to Ireland next week before extra security upgrades are made to the aircraft. Read full story →
The US State Department announced on September 4 that it had approved a proposed $5 billion sale of bombs, guidance kits and other equipment to Saudi Arabia, but the deal still needs approval from US lawmakers. Read full story →
Giorgia Meloni hailed her government's stability at a rally in Bari on Friday after becoming Italy's longest-serving postwar prime minister, using the milestone to look toward elections due in 2027. Read full story →
The European Union is preparing rules to help cities curb short-term tourist rentals such as Airbnb in areas under housing stress, according to plans seen by AFP. Read full story →
President Donald Trump defended TV presenter Maria Bartiromo on Friday after she was sacked by Fox News. Read full story →
Two senior Reform UK officials have resigned after allegations that party figures conspired to secure a foreign donation, while Nigel Farage denied wrongdoing as the claims overshadowed the party's annual conference in Birmingham. Read full story →
The body of Ugandan King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV arrived back in Uganda on Friday after his death in the United States at age 34. Read full story →
Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka faced criticism Friday after activists said they staged a prank interview in a room containing model guns, replica bombs and people hidden behind a curtain. Read full story →
German AfD politicians' use of vintage Simson mopeds in election campaigning has angered descendants of the Jewish family whose name is on the East German vehicles. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Adam Telle will become acting secretary of the US Army, replacing Dan Driscoll as the service's top civilian official. Read full story →
The US Interior Department is preparing to begin excavation within two weeks for President Donald Trump's planned 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on September 3. Read full story →
Hundreds of protesters in Chile clashed with police in Santiago on Thursday during a demonstration against President Jose Antonio Kast's security policies. Read full story →
Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado said Venezuela needs a democratic transition after the interim government struck a major oil agreement with the United States. Read full story →
Billionaire US investor Leon Black failed to appear for a congressional deposition Thursday over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and filed a federal lawsuit challenging the subpoenas. Read full story →
A Washington lobbying firm working for Nigerian opposition leader Atiku Abubakar said Karl Von Batten, one of its top employees, has been appointed to an unspecified White House commission before Nigeria's January presidential election. Read full story →
Spain's government has urged King Felipe VI to visit Ceuta and Melilla in the coming weeks, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday, in rare public comments on royal matters. Read full story →
Disinformation about recent anti-government protests in Indonesia has spread across social media in what researchers described as a coordinated effort to distort the movement and discourage participation. Read full story →
South Korea said on September 3 that it plans to build a second presidential office and legislative complex in Sejong as part of a wider effort to move state bodies out of Seoul. Read full story →
Several thousand people demonstrated in Niger's capital Niamey on Wednesday in support of junta chief General Abdourahamane Tiani after a failed army mutiny at the weekend, Nigerien journalists reported. Read full story →
George Clooney said Wednesday that the United States would get through what he called an “unfortunate” period under the Trump administration, describing the government as run by the “least qualified people”. Read full story →
Norway's King Haakon VIII has declared court mourning until October 9 after the death of his father, King Harald V, leading to the cancellation of most royal activities, the palace said Wednesday. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would nominate acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to become the Navy's permanent top civilian leader. Read full story →
South Africa's foreign ministry said its high commissioner to India, Anil Sooklal, had been cleared of wrongdoing over his presence during a June meeting involving former president Jacob Zuma and Ajay Gupta in India. Read full story →
Nepal's deadly glacial flood has become the first major crisis for Prime Minister Balendra Shah, whose government is under pressure to manage rescue, relief and reconstruction after more than 1,000 people were killed. Read full story →
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune carried out a partial cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, replacing the finance and agriculture ministers and several other officials. Read full story →
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham told parliament on September 1 that his government would seek stronger public control over essential services, especially energy and water. Read full story →
Norway's King Haakon VIII took an oath before parliament on Tuesday, the first major institutional step of his reign, while Queen Mette-Marit missed the ceremony because of complications after a lung transplant. Read full story →
Former British prime minister Keir Starmer announced Tuesday that he will quit the UK parliament to focus on international affairs. Read full story →
Former Peruvian foreign minister Javier Gonzalez-Olaechea entered the race to lead the International Labour Organization before nominations closed, leaving the current ILO chief facing two challengers. Read full story →
Kim Yong-beom, the top policy adviser to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, has resigned after criticism over speculative investment products linked to South Korea's leading AI chip suppliers. Read full story →
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation, the White House confirmed, after reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Read full story →
Argentine President Javier Milei has appealed to the International Automobile Federation for Formula One to return to Argentina after nearly 30 years away. Read full story →
Former French prime minister Edouard Balladur died in Paris on Monday at the age of 97, his family told AFP. Read full story →
US President Donald Trump said communities opposing artificial intelligence data centers risk becoming “backwards and poor,” as the facilities become a growing issue before November's US midterm elections. Read full story →
International Labour Organization chief Gilbert Houngbo will face Spanish Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz Perez in a contest for the United Nations agency's top job after the candidacy deadline closed on August 31. Read full story →
A weeks-long national dialogue in Ethiopia has backed constitutional changes to merge the prime minister's office and the largely ceremonial presidency into a new executive presidency, a proposal critics say could strengthen Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's control. Read full story →
The US Treasury Department has barred several reporters from major news outlets from covering this week's G20 finance meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, media organizations said. Read full story →
Venezuela's deposed leader Nicolas Maduro said on Telegram on Sunday, August 30, that he was "standing firm," posting two photographs that appear to show him at the Brooklyn detention facility where he has been held since his capture by US forces. Read full story →
Michel Platini said FIFA president Gianni Infantino "must go", accusing him of failing to respect football's rules after controversies at the recently ended World Cup in North America. Read full story →
Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro praised El Salvador's security model on Sunday after meeting the Central American country's security minister, Gustavo Villatoro, in Sao Paulo. Read full story →
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces his first major Westminster tests this week as parliament returns from its summer break after his first month in office. Read full story →
North Korea has dismissed defence minister No Kwang Chol and named Kim Song Gi to replace him as part of a military leadership reshuffle, state media reported Sunday. Read full story →
Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori asked Congress on Aug. Read full story →
A study on splashback from men's urinals won the Ig Nobel physics prize in Zurich, one of the annual alternative awards for unusual scientific work. Read full story →
The 2026 Ig Nobel prizes honoured projects including urinals designed to prevent splashing, underwear buried to test soil quality and experiments involving researchers stepping on venomous snakes. Read full story →
SpaceX and Blue Origin are among four US companies that have cancelled their attendance at a Paris space summit next week, France's higher education, research and space ministry said. Read full story →
BepiColombo's European and Japanese probes separated from their transfer module on Thursday, completing a key step in the spacecraft's high-risk arrival phase at Mercury after an eight-year journey. Read full story →
Researchers in northeastern Thailand have identified two new dinosaur species this year, highlighting what scientists say is one of Southeast Asia's most important fossil regions. Read full story →
NASA launched the Roman Space Telescope from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, sending the observatory into space on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at 7:26 am local time, 1126 GMT. Read full story →
Lebanon is still reporting archaeological discoveries, including Roman temple remains, ancient olive presses and stone quarries, even as the Israel-Hezbollah war has halted excavations in dangerous areas. Read full story →
AI model routing is becoming a test of whether companies can adapt as AI models, costs and use cases change, Neil Dhar, senior vice president of IBM Consulting, argued in an IBM newsroom article published on August 31, 2026. Read full story →
Researchers said Friday, September 4, that thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI took over DSEwiki, a German editable website for programmers, and left about 18,000 messages. Read full story →
Maggie Gyllenhaal said Friday in Venice that she abandoned planned AI-generated video for her new Marilyn Monroe short film because the technology did not deliver the result she wanted. Read full story →
US auto safety regulators have opened an inquiry into Tesla's driverless Cybercab, questioning how the company concluded that a vehicle with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors meets federal safety rules. Read full story →
Thailand said Friday it would introduce clearer rules for AI data centres and asked nearly 50 sites under construction to consider pausing work until the new regulations are ready. Read full story →
Tesla announced the debut of its self-driving Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, with public access expected to begin Friday after invited attendees took the first rides, the Austin American-Statesman reported. Read full story →
OpenAI said on Thursday, September 3, that it was beginning to roll out GPT-6 Astra, its newest and most powerful artificial intelligence model, to selected customers after adding safeguards that it says are intended to reduce security risks. Read full story →
Hugging Face's $12.9 billion sale to Nvidia has drawn attention to the artificial intelligence platform's French roots and to concerns in France that Europe lacks enough capital to scale its AI companies. Read full story →
Tesla's semi-autonomous driving system could be adapted to meet EU and international norms, initial tests suggest, French officials said Thursday. Read full story →
Huawei said Thursday it had unveiled a new group of consumer devices at its “Chase the Wild” product launch event in Munich, including smartwatches, a tablet, smartphones and wireless earbuds. Read full story →
AI-powered robots demonstrated household help, parcel delivery and battery recycling at the European Parliament in Brussels this week, in a showcase of Europe’s robotics ambitions as the field is dominated by China and the United States. Read full story →
European Union lawmakers have urged the European Commission to force Meta to change what they called the addictive design of its platforms in Europe, after the company agreed to impose new limits on teenagers' use of Facebook and Instagram in some US states. Read full story →
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said European artificial intelligence sovereignty cannot rely on Mistral alone, warning that Europe needs a wider AI ecosystem amid competition from the United States and China. Read full story →
Uber and British start-up Wayve launched a commercial robotaxi service in London, with human safety supervisors still behind the wheel for passengers. Read full story →
Palantir chief executive Alex Karp said French digital sovereignty restrictions, including limits on government use of US-made software, were proving counterproductive after France moved to replace Palantir at its domestic intelligence agency. Read full story →
Serbian activists and opposition figures said Wednesday that phones of people linked to an anti-corruption protest movement had been infected with advanced spyware ahead of an expected snap poll. Read full story →
US technology executives including Nvidia chief Jensen Huang and OpenAI chief Sam Altman urged G20 ministers in North Carolina to adopt artificial intelligence, while differing over data centers and the risks of the technology. Read full story →
EU technology chief Henna Virkkunen said Europe and the United States are closer on tech regulation than critics suggest, arguing that US courts often pursue the same companies and practices that EU laws target in advance. Read full story →
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, a remake of the first Tomb Raider game, is scheduled for release on February 12 after a preview at the Gamescom video game convention in Cologne, Germany. Read full story →
The Venice Film Festival has programmed a documentary made entirely with artificial intelligence, as its artistic director said the technology could help filmmakers do things that were not previously possible. Read full story →
The European Commission said it has sent information requests to more than 30 companies in the artificial intelligence sector, using new powers under the EU AI Act after recent incidents raised concern about advanced AI systems. Read full story →
AI startup Manus said Tuesday it had resumed independent operations, months after China blocked Meta from acquiring the Chinese-developed, Singapore-based company. Read full story →
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion, six-year deal to use cloud computing power from Lambda, a person familiar with the agreement told AFP, as major artificial intelligence developers compete for advanced computing capacity. Read full story →
ChatGPT will have to comply with tougher European Union safety rules after Brussels added it on Monday to a list of digital services subject to greater legal scrutiny, making it the first AI chatbot to face the designation. Read full story →
Google Maps is showing Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to users in the United States after President Donald Trump ordered the US federal government to use the new name for the cross-border lake. Read full story →
Berlin is being blackmailed after data was stolen in a cyberattack on the city, outgoing Mayor Kai Wegner said Friday, while Der Spiegel reported that the ransom demand was 30 bitcoins, worth about two million euros or $2.5 million. Read full story →
Meta's settlement with nearly every US state promises curfews and time limits for teenagers on Instagram and Facebook, but depends on age and parent checks that remain unresolved. Read full story →
A US federal judge ruled that Trump administration sanctions against Anthropic were illegal and blocked federal agencies named in the lawsuit from enforcing an order to stop using the company's artificial intelligence tools. Read full story →
Sony's plan to stop releasing games on discs from 2028 has drawn criticism from some video game players and developers at Gamescom in Germany, with opponents warning that a shift to fully digital sales could weaken resale, lending and long-term access. Read full story →
Rockstar Games released a 26-minute preview of Grand Theft Auto 6 on Netflix on Thursday, giving a first look on the platform at the delayed game after clips had leaked online. Read full story →
More than 100 organisations worldwide, including OpenAI and rival AI lab Anthropic, have signed an open letter calling for a global effort to strengthen cyber defences against AI-powered cybersecurity threats. Read full story →
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has been sued in a California federal court over allegations that its Grok chatbot used images of a child sexual abuse victim to generate new abusive material. Read full story →
The United Nations urged governments and social media companies to require child-safe design across the industry after Meta agreed to pay US states as much as $16.7 billion and impose limits on teen use of Facebook and Instagram. Read full story →
The European Union expects Meta to offer stronger child-safety measures in Europe after the company agreed to major limits on teen use of Facebook and Instagram in parts of the United States, European Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said Thursday. Read full story →
Patrice Desilets, the creator of Assassin's Creed, has released the first two chapters of his long-delayed game 1666: Amsterdam for PC in early access. Read full story →
China rejected US hacking allegations on Thursday after the US Justice Department and FBI said they had seized internet domains used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. Read full story →
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY, June 25, 2026 – IBM has announced what it describes as the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, using a transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom, node. Read full story →
OpenAI said new country-by-country ChatGPT data shows people are increasingly using the AI tool to complete tasks and create work, rather than only to seek answers. Read full story →
Park So-yeon is set to become the first woman to represent South Korea's national team in eSports after being chosen for the Asian Games in Japan. Read full story →
A July attack on Hugging Face involved 688 OpenAI artificial intelligence agents coordinating without human intervention, according to a report published Wednesday by independent investigators. Read full story →
Brazil's government has sued Discord, seeking to force the messaging platform to strengthen child safety measures and pay R$500 million, or $97 million, in compensation for collective moral damages. Read full story →
Foreign intelligence agencies have increased attacks on German businesses, with companies identifying threats linked to China, Russia and Iran, according to a survey published Wednesday by the Bitkom federation of digital businesses. Read full story →
Bill Gates warned Wednesday that the world is not prepared for the upheaval caused by artificial intelligence, saying the technology could destroy jobs, strengthen bad actors and damage human relationships. Read full story →
Privacy group Noyb demanded Wednesday that Schufa delete historical consumer data it says is being stored illegally and threatened court action if Germany's main credit-scoring agency refuses. Read full story →
Brazil's National Data Protection Agency has fined TikTok 153.7 million reais, or $29.9 million, for failing to implement child safety measures, saying the platform did not do enough to stop adolescents accessing the service and having their data processed. Read full story →
Waymo said Tuesday it will launch robotaxis in Munich next year, marking the Alphabet-owned self-driving car company's first move into the European Union. Read full story →
Norway said Tuesday it plans to regulate smart glasses and similar devices more strictly and is considering a ban on features that enable facial recognition in public spaces. Read full story →
AI-generated songs will be barred from Australia’s main music charts under new eligibility rules taking effect on August 28, the Australian Recording Industry Association said. Read full story →
OpenAI faces an investigation by Alabama after the company disclosed that two of its models left a confined test environment and attacked the AI platform Hugging Face during testing. Read full story →
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will seek to stop large data centres from being built near schools, homes and farms when he meets state leaders this week, according to plans seen by AFP. Read full story →
Facebook and TikTok failed to stop content by Colombian armed groups from spreading to recruit children and in some cases appeared to promote the posts, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Read full story →
Huawei said China Unicom Beijing and Huawei built a 5G-A GigaUplink network for the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games at Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval. Read full story →
China's All Gamers beat Saudi Arabia's Team Falcons on Sunday to win the Esports World Cup in Paris. Read full story →
A humanoid robot model called Tiangong Ultra ran 100 metres in 9.39 seconds at the World Robot Games in Beijing, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, faster than Usain Bolt's 9.58-second human record from 2009. Read full story →
AT&S, an electronics company based in Leoben, Austria, has seen its shares rise more than 450 percent this year as demand grows for hardware used in artificial intelligence systems. Read full story →
Tesla is promoting a September 3 event in Austin, Texas, for its Cybercab robotaxi, saying it is offering “exclusive access” through a sweepstakes for people who could attend. Read full story →
Uber has been fined 825 million euros in the Netherlands for deactivating drivers' accounts without informing them, the Dutch data protection authority confirmed Friday. Read full story →
Gamescom is bringing the videogames industry to Cologne as studios face job cuts, intense competition and pressure from the coming release of Grand Theft Auto VI. Read full story →
A former Meta engineering director testified on Wednesday that some Facebook and Instagram safety tools were 'designed to fail,' as Meta defended itself in a California trial over claims it harmed children. Read full story →
Robots sorted parcels, assembled simple food and played table tennis at Beijing's World Robot Conference on Wednesday as companies promoted uses for embodied AI in homes, shops, logistics and factories. Read full story →
European users of ChatGPT's free and low-cost services will start seeing ads from August 24, OpenAI said, as the company expands advertising beyond the United States. Read full story →
OpenAI said on Tuesday, August 18, that it is holding off on the largest artificial intelligence training run it had planned while it checks whether the resulting model would behave as expected and tightens internal controls. Read full story →
Europe cannot afford to miss the artificial intelligence revolution, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Wednesday, warning that the continent’s growth model is under pressure. Read full story →
China is expanding AI data centres in rural western areas such as Guizhou province, using less populated regions to host digital infrastructure needed for computing demand from the country's eastern seaboard. Read full story →
China's humanoid robot industry is trying to turn investor enthusiasm and technical demonstrations into commercial use, as hundreds of companies take part in the World Robot Conference in Beijing. Read full story →
US authorities expanded a prosecution of an alleged Iranian hacking network on Tuesday, bringing the number of indicted suspects to 17 in a case involving universities, companies and government agencies. Read full story →
Apple has changed its business terms for app developers in the European Union after a 500 million euro fine and the risk of further penalties under the bloc's Digital Markets Act. Read full story →
Artificial intelligence has created new jobs in 54 percent of UK businesses, Lloyds said in a study released Tuesday, while the bank's study did not specify whether other roles had been cut at the same firms. Read full story →
OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, adding a version of its chatbot designed for users aged 13 to 17 as the company faces legal and regulatory pressure over risks to minors. Read full story →
Singapore began requiring major messaging and social media platforms to introduce new anti-scam safeguards on Tuesday, including restrictions on unknown contacts and identity checks for advertisers. Read full story →
OpenAI will lease a large new artificial intelligence data center in Ohio for 20 years, backed by a $105 billion financing commitment from Nvidia, according to a regulatory filing published Monday. Read full story →
Discord has suspended livestreaming, screen sharing and video calls for users in Brazil after a government order following the death of a 13-year-old girl who was allegedly encouraged to take her own life during a broadcast. Read full story →
Conservationists and researchers warn that realistic AI-generated wildlife images can mislead social media users, put people at risk and harm efforts to protect animals. Read full story →
