2023

Three people were killed and another critically injured in a shooting at a Las Vegas university on Wednesday, police said, with the suspect also dead.

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, 85, was freed from prison on Wednesday after a court reinstated a pardon of his 25-year sentence for crimes against… Read More »Peru’s aging ex-president Fujimori freed after pardon reinstated

Countries at the COP28 climate talks need to stop posturing, aim high and agree on a way to end the “fossil fuel era as we know it”,… Read More »UN slams COP28 ‘posturing’ as negotiators spar over ending fossil fuels

Guyana and Venezuela agreed Wednesday to keep “communication channels open” in a fast-escalating feud over an oil-rich region, as Brazil reinforced its troops near its… Read More »Venezuela, Guyana agree to keep talking as feud over oil-rich region mounts

Google on Wednesday infused its Bard chatbot with a new-generation artificial intelligence model called Gemini, which it touts as being able to reason better than… Read More »Google launches AI model Gemini, claims it outperforms ChatGPT

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday had hastily arranged talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on oil, Gaza and Ukraine, hours after visiting Saudi Arabia’s Gulf neighbour, the United… Read More »Russia’s Putin meets leaders of Saudi Arabia, UAE on whistle-stop Gulf tour

Moscow police carried out raids on nightclubs hosting LGBTQ events on December 1, just two days after Russia’s Supreme Court banned the “international LGBTQ movement”… Read More »Moscow police raid LGBTQ nightclubs: ‘My life was hanging by a thread’

A former Ukrainian lawmaker regarded by Kyiv as a traitor was shot dead near Moscow on Wednesday and a Ukrainian source said he was killed… Read More »Pro-Russia Ukrainian politician shot dead near Moscow

A man suspected of stabbing a German tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower appeared before a French judge on Wednesday with a view to… Read More »Paris knife attacker faces judge on terror charges

A fellow actor filed a sexual assault complaint against Gérard Depardieu in September, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding to a string of allegations targeting the French… Read More »French film star Depardieu faces new allegation of sexual assault