South Korean workers detained in a US immigration raid in Georgia will be released

South Korea announced the deal on Sunday. The raid is part of a criminal investigation targeting a major economic project of a key US ally.

The 475 detained Sout...

'The Eastern Shield': How Poland wants to defend its borders from invasion

"The Eastern Shield", a 700 km defense project near Poland's eastern border, aims to boost state resilience and protect against armed invasion. Experts, however, ...

Pope Leo XIV declares first two saints of his pontificate

The canonisation of the first saint millennial Carlo Acutis and the son of the founder of the newspaper la Stampa Pier Giorgio Frassati was celebrated on Sunday m...

Governor slams Trump over ‘Department of War’ post amid Chicago federal crackdown protests

Illinois Governor slams Trump over social media post as demonstrations erupt in Chicago and Washington DC over federal crackdown.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker c...

Japan’s PM Shigeru Ishiba steps down after a defeat in July’s parliamentary vote

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday he will step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in Ju...

Zelensky: Putin may come to Kiev

Before that, the Kremlin said it had called Zelensky to Moscow "to talk, not to capitulate."

Volodymyr Zelensky has once again rejected Vladimir Putin's proposal...

Two French journalists suspended amid accusation of collusion with Socialist party members

Journalists Thomas Legrand and Patrick Cohen are suspended amid a controversial video with leaders of the Socialist Party against the far-right.

"We're doing the...

EU distances itself from Commissioner's claims Israel committing genocide in Gaza

Teresa Ribera has been one of the most vocal critics in Brussels of Israel's military operation in Gaza, but Thursday’s speech was the first time she has used the...

Social media rife with conspiracy theories after 16 candidates die ahead of German local elections

State police looking into the initial four deaths, which were announced on 1 September, told the German Press Agency (dpa) that there was no evidence of any third...

Majority of deaths in Lisbon streetcar crash were foreigners, Portuguese police say

Multiple agencies are investigating what Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has described as "one of the biggest tragedies of our recent past."

Portuguese police hav...

Angela Rayner resigns as UK deputy prime minister over stamp duty underpayment

In the UK, levies are charged on property purchases, with higher charges due on more expensive homes and second homes.

The UK's deputy prime minister, Angela Ray...

What's in a name? US lawyer Mark Zuckerberg sues Facebook over account shutdowns for 'impersonation'

Indiana bankruptcy lawyer Mark S Zuckerberg says his official presence on Facebook has been disabled five times in eight years, costing him thousands of dollars i...

Why has Trump renamed the US Department of Defense to Department of War?

Although the US President’s decision to rename the Department of Defense is a highly controversial one, the government arm was actually called the Department of W...

Foreign troops in Ukraine would be 'legitimate targets for destruction,’ Putin says

The Russian president said on Friday it is "practically impossible" to reach an agreement with Ukraine on key issues, and also reiterated Moscow’s resolute reject...

Israelis across the country to gather and mark 700 days since Hamas' 7 October attacks

Families of the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abandon plans to expand Israel's offensive and bring c...

Russian spy drones over Germany: Why Bundeswehr can not shoot them down

Russia uses surveillance drones over eastern Germany to monitor Western arms deliveries to Ukraine. German authorities are struggling to counter these espionage a...

Elon Musk sidelined from Donald Trump's White House dinner with US tech executives

Trump hosted tech leaders at the White House to discuss domestic investments and room for further development in an unexpected dinner which snubbed former aide an...

Tackling Russia's hybrid war on Europe: Jamming and spoofing in the 'grey zone'

NATO and the EU are working on ways to counter Russia's jamming of GPS systems aboard civilian flights. How does jamming work and what other "grey zone" technique...

Suwayda violence: Head of Israel's Druze calls on Europe to act and defends Israeli strikes

Speaking about clashes in Syria, Sheikh Tarif said that "if there had been no Israeli intervention, the Druze community in Suwayda would have been wiped out."

Th...

Germany leads joint military drills in the Baltic Sea amid Russia threat fears

Some 8,000 officers from 14 NATO countries are taking part in the multi-week "Quadriga 2025" exercises.

The German army is leading joint military exercises in th...

Coalition of the Willing: 26 countries agree to deploy troops or equipment to post-war Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the number of countries willing to participate and the contributions on the table a "victory".

Twenty-six countrie...