2024

Five days after being seized, a Polish doctor is saved despite the rescue helicopter coming under attack.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is facing his biggest political crisis since returning to power in 2010, following the shock resignations of two of his… Read More »‘This cannot go on’: Scandal over presidential child sex abuse pardon rocks Orban’s Hungary

A group of hackers linked to Iran have interrupted BBC and a host of other European TV streaming services in Britain, the United Arab Emirates… Read More »Iran-backed hackers interrupt UAE, UK and Canadian programming with fake AI news broadcast

A Nigerian court hears dramatic testimony in the corruption trial of the former central bank chief.

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin cannot be prosecuted for accusations of rape made by a woman for years, France’s highest court ruled on Wednesday, definitively… Read More »French Interior Minister Darmanin cannot be prosecuted for rape accusations, top court says

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty on Wednesday by a Paris appeals court of illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid,… Read More »Ex-French president Sarkozy handed one-year jail sentence for illegal 2012 campaign financing

The scaffolding around the spire of Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral has begun to come down, the authority charged with restoring the monument after a devastating 2019… Read More »France begins to dismantle Notre-Dame scaffolding

Eighteen out of 31 NATO countries will hit the target of 2% in defence spending of their gross domestic product in 2024, NATO’s Secretary General Jens… Read More »NATO chief says 18 member states will hit military spending target in 2024

Pakistan’s two main political parties that joined forces to oust Imran Khan as prime minister in 2022 said Tuesday they would form a new coalition… Read More »Pakistan’s two main parties agree on coalition without allies of ex-PM Khan

Voters in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim democracy, have cast their ballots to elect a new president. In this country of 270 million people, where… Read More »Indonesia’s religious minorities fear radical Islam