- "The genocide in Gaza exposes Europe's failure to act and speak with one voice," European Commission vice president Teresa Ribera...
The EU has struggled to take steps over the war in Gaza due to deep divisions between member states pushing for action against Israel and those backing the country.
The splits are also present inside the EU's executive, where Spanish commissioner Ribera has expressed frustration over the failure to push on the issue.
- Rome, Italy -- Italian fashion legend Giorgio Armani, king of a high-end lifestyle empire, has died at the age of...
The Italian icon was credited with inventing red-carpet fashion, but also moved into a younger and less expensive range through Emporio Armani.
His death came just weeks ahead of celebrations marking 50 years of his eponymous label.
- srael's internal security service said on Wednesday it had foiled a plot by Palestinian militant group Hamas to kill far-right...
In a statement, the Shin Bet security service said the planned attack would have involved "explosive drones."
It said that members of a Hamas cell operating in the area of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, had been arrested
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade of military might...
In unprecedented scenes, Xi shook hands with both leaders as they walked down a red carpet by Tiananmen Square, with Putin to his right and Kim to his left
The event, ostensibly to mark 80 years since the end of World War II, was a chance for Xi to showcase China's military prowess and bring together friendly leaders
- The Israeli military has been gearing up to seize Gaza City, the Palestinian territory's largest urban centre, with the United...
Last month, Israel approved a major settlement project just east of Jerusalem that the international community has warned threatens the viability of future Palestinian statehood.
And on Wednesday, Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for annexation of swathes of the West Bank, after Belgium said it would recognize a Palestine as a state.
- Stockholm, Sweden -- A dozen patents belonging to Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel and lost for almost 50 years...
Nobel -- who discovered dynamite in 1867 and created the Nobel Prizes in his 1895 will -- had hundreds of patents in several countries.
Nobel was known as a globetrotter -- he was nicknamed "the richest vagabond in the world" -- who at various times in his life lived in Sweden, Russia, Germany, France.
- Security chief Ali Larijani said Tuesday that Iran was open to nuclear talks with the United States but ruled out...
"The path for negotiations with the US is not closed; yet these are the Americans who only pay lip service to talks; and they wrongly blame Iran for it," said Larijani
The remarks came days after the United States welcomed a move by European powers to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran but said it remained "available for direct engagement with Iran".
- The mother of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, hopes that a film about...
Rajab's body was recovered from a car riddled with bullets in Gaza City days after she was last heard from, in a desperate, hours-long phone call to the Palestinian Red Crescent
She had made the emergency call after her family's car came under fire during an attempt to flee Gaza City amid an Israeli advance in the Palestinian territory's north
- In unprecedented scenes, Xi shook both their hands and chatted with the pair as they walked down a red carpet...
In unprecedented scenes, Xi shook both their hands and chatted with the pair as they walked down a red carpet towards Tiananmen Square, with Putin to Xi's right and Kim to his left
Thousands of people sang patriotic songs, and there was a gun salute as the showpiece extravaganza to mark 80 years since the end of World War II got underway
- Paris, France -- French judicial authorities have issued arrest warrants for ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and six other top...
British photographer Paul Conroy, French reporter Edith Bouvier and Syrian translator Wael Omar were wounded in the attack on the informal press center where they had been working.
Assad escaped with his family to Russia after being ousted by Islamist rebels at the end of 2024 although his precise whereabouts have not been confirmed.





















