At least 27 people died after a ferry capsized off Guyana, Prime Minister Mark Phillips said Monday, as rescuers searched for 83 people still missing. Sixty-nine passengers have been rescued since the MV Barima overturned Saturday night while...
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday visited Algeria for the first time in four years in a bid to mend diplomatic ties between the two countries after they were frayed by a row over Western Sahara. In 2022, Madrid abandoned its neutrality...
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Monday said two French embassy officials had been subject to an “extremely serious act of intimidation” by Iranian security services in Iran the day before, having been held and interrogated for...
Andy Burnham has become Britain's new prime minister. The nomination process unfolded on July 20th in London, with one outgoing Labour leader passing the baton to another. The hope is that Burnham will ease the leadership turnover, stabilising the...
Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats.
Britain's incoming prime minister, Andy Burnham, has signalled that he will be focusing on cost-of-living and other domestic issues. He will outline the detail of the direction his premiership will take on July 20 during his first speech at 10...
A fresh Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region Monday night wounded at least 10 people, including a child, Russian authorities said, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying the strikes had targeted an oil depot and "logistics...
Former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is set to become the United Kingdom's new Prime Minister this Monday, with a commitment to help raise living standards in the country. The Labour leader's agenda will be tested by the country's financial...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has hinted he could reshuffle his government after Jens Spahn resigned as parliamentary leader, adding to pressure on the ruling conservatives ahead of key regional elections.
Protests continued across Ukraine for a third consecutive day despite the ongoing war, with demonstrators demanding the reinstatement of the popular former defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, following his removal. The demonstrations coincided with...
An ally of former PM Viktor Orban has signed a constitutional amendment ending his own term as head of state. Tamas Sulyok criticized the law, while lawmakers insist he has impeded national progress by staying in office.
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Jens Spahn, the parliamentary head of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU faction, resigned on Saturday amid mounting pressure over his use of a surrogate mother in the US despite a surrogacy ban in Germany. Spahn and his husband welcomed the...
This week France 24's media show "Scoop" looks at Donald Trump's latest attempt to intimidate the press. The New York Times broke the story that the Qatari-donated Air Force One had security concerns. It was clearly newsworthy: the US President...
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
The UN refugee agency and the Ethiopian government have opened a new support centre in Addis Ababa to provide refugees with free legal advice and access to essential services. The initiative aims to help refugees navigate bureaucracy, obtain vital...
Germany’s interior minister has warned of a heightened security threat, saying an attack could be imminent. Meanwhile, a train security guard was critically injured after falling from a moving train. DW has the latest.
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Belarus has shifted migrant routes towards Latvia's border, forcing Riga to call on its neighbours for support as the Baltic state heads into an election campaign. Lithuania is now considering whether to introduce temporary border controls to manage...
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas visited Djibouti and signed a new security agreement to strengthen Europe's naval presence, as reports say Tehran has asked the Houthis to shut the Bab el-Mandeb if the US strikes Iranian infrastructure...
First the storms, now the fires. President Emmanuel Macron has described the blazes in the Fontainebleau Forest as some of the worst since the end of World War II. The president visited the scene to show his support for the 950 firefighters still...
President Donald Trump on Thursday accused China of compromising US election data and said he would declassify intelligence on what he called "shocking vulnerabilities" in the system. Trump repeated longstanding claims about the 2020 election...
