Trump says Gaza ceasefire deal 'close' but needs to meet Israel

Netanyahu is due to arrive in the United States on Thursday
25 September 2025

Erdogan to seek deal with Trump on F-35s

Turkish President to visit White House after six years
25 September 2025

France's Sarkozy given 5-year sentence, must go to prison

Charged on accusation of presidential run being funded by ousted Libya dictator
25 September 2025
24 September 2025

EU queries Apple, Google, Microsoft over financial scams

Fears app stores could be used to create fake apps
23 September 2025

Russia slams UN vote to reimpose Iran sanctions

Russia yesterday slammed the UN Security Council vote to reimpose economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme and warned of a risk of an “escalation of tensions”.
20 September 2025

Cyberattack hits Europe’s airports

Major European airports, including Brussels, Berlin and London’s Heathrow, were hit by a cyberattack yesterday on check-in systems that caused cancellations and long delays for many passengers.
20 September 2025

EU seeks to speed up Russian gas phase-out

The European Union yesterday proposed to bring forward a ban on Russian gas imports as part of a new package of sanctions aimed at sapping Moscow’s war chest -- and pleasing US President Donald Trump.
19 September 2025

UK police arrest 3 suspected of spying for Russia

UK counter-terror police have arrested two men and a woman in southeast England on suspicion of spying for Russia, the Metropolitan Police said yesterday.
18 September 2025

New Picasso portrait unveiled at Paris auction house

A previously unknown portrait by Pablo Picasso of one of his lovers was revealed on Thursday after being put up for sale at auction in Paris with a reserve price of eight million euros ($9.5 million).
18 September 2025

Ostrich and emu ancestors could fly: study

It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of birds that includes African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, New Zealand kiwis and South American rheas spread across the world -- given that none of them can fly.
17 September 2025

Gold worth 600,000 euros stolen in Paris museum heist

Alarm and surveillance system previously disabled in a July attack
17 September 2025

Fossil fuels harm from ‘cradle to grave’: report

The extraction, transportation and burning of planet-heating fossil fuels have a huge impact on people’s health that starts before they are born and lasts until they die, a report warned Tuesday.
16 September 2025

Russia flexes its military muscle during drills

Russia said yesterday that it had fired a Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic cruise missile at a target in the Barents Sea and that Sukoi Su-34 supersonic fighter-bombers had carried out strikes as part of joint military exercises with Belarus.
14 September 2025

Inflation defences are no match for debt burden

Countries across the Western world are over-indebted. In theory, they could grow their way out of the debt or rein in their fiscal deficits. But the richer countries have a miserable recent growth record.
13 September 2025

Russia and Belarus start military exercise near NATO border after drone incursion

Exercise comes just two days after a tense drone incident with Poland
12 September 2025

Do not slash journalist visas

More than 100 international media groups and industry bodies yesterday urged Washington not to slash the time foreign journalists can stay in the United States, saying the planned change would hurt its image abroad.
11 September 2025
11 September 2025

Protests grip France as new PM starts job

France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu was set to take office yesterday as protesters took to the streets in a show of grassroots opposition to President Emmanuel Macron, sparking clashes with police and dozens of arrests.
10 September 2025