As winter approaches, the World Health Organization yesterday stressed the importance of staying vigilant as cases of Covid and influenza rise in Europe, encouraging more people to get vaccinated.

Boris Johnson was fighting on Sunday to get enough support to make a shock return as Britain's prime minister after prominent figures on the right wing of the Conservative Party coalesced around the man once accused of betraying him, Rishi Sunak.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson returned to Britain yesterday from a Caribbean holiday aiming to launch an audacious political comeback, as Conservative rival Rishi Sunak reached the minimum threshold to contest the UK’s top job.

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italian prime minister yesterday, to become the first woman to head a government in Italy.

We cannot expect any insights or political wisdom from anyone in the West now... especially from Great Britain, where the current head of the executive is not elected by the people.

The entire world needs Venezuela’s oil and natural gas... On the other side, there’s been embargoes on the Iranian oil. Remove these sanctions... if you want the prices to drop…. You cannot solve the problem by threatening a country.

This discussion (among EU leaders) showed a very clear will to avoid being naive, but neither did we want to embark into a logic of systematic confrontation (with China). European Council chief Charles Michel

EU leaders has reached an agreement on a “roadmap” aimed at putting in place measures within weeks to shield European consumers from soaring energy prices.

 Boris Johnson and his former finance minister Rishi Sunak were leading potential contenders to replace British Prime Minister Liz Truss yesterday, with candidates canvassing support to become Conservative Party leader in a fast-tracked contest.

Giorgia Meloni was on Friday named as Italy's first woman prime minister and chose her cabinet team, setting her seal on the country's most right-wing government since World War Two.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss yesterday announced her resignation just six crisis-filled weeks after taking office, becoming the shortest-lived premier in UK history.

James Bond actor Daniel Craig on Tuesday received the same honour held by his fictional character, as he is set to retire from the role.

Some one billion children are at “extremely high risk” due to climate change harms, a rights group warned yesterday, adding that youths’ living

British lawmakers will try to oust Prime Minister Liz Truss this week, a report said yesterday, as the government axed almost all of its debt-fuelled tax cuts unveiled last month to avert fresh markets chaos, in another humiliating blow for the embattled PM.

The world’s fattest parrot can’t fly, and now it can’t run either.

Sweden’s parliament yesterday narrowly elected conservative leader Ulf Kristersson as prime minister, leading the country’s first government to be shored up by the far-right Sweden Democrats. Kristersson, 58, was elected by a wafer-thin majority of three votes, after announcing a deal on Friday to form a governing coalition comprising his Moderate Party, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals.

Russia’s former leader Dmitry Medvedev yesterday warned Israel against supplying weapons to Ukraine, saying any move to bolster Kyiv’s forces would severely damage bilateral ties.

Iran yesterday vowed an “immediate” response to the European Union as it prepares new sanctions on the Islamic republic after over a month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death.

Twelve people were killed in a shooting at a bar in central Mexico on Saturday, local authorities said, with growing cartel violence making the region one of the country’s most dangerous.

Pope Francis said the need to reform the United Nations was “more than obvious” after the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war exposed its limits, in an extract of his new book published yesterday.