NEW YORK, United States - Donald Trump went straight from his victory in the Republican Iowa caucuses to a New York courtroom Tuesday for the start of a defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll after an earlier jury found he had sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. Alina Habba, lawyer of...
PARIS, France - France will deliver to Ukraine a new batch of around 40 SCALP long-range cruise missiles as well as hundreds of bombs as Kyiv fights the Russian invasion, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. Macron told reporters at a news conference that Europe's priority must be to "not let...
MONTPELLIER, France - A French court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 30 years in jail for the murder of his partner, after her body was found in 2021 buried under a concrete slab in their home. Samire Lymani, 41, had reported Aurelie Vaquier, 38, missing on February 23 that year, around a month after...
KYIV, Ukraine - At least 16 people were injured in a Russian rocket strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday evening, the regional governor said. In a post on social media, Governor Oleg Synegubov said Russian strikes hit residential buildings in the city centre, injuring at least 16,...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden has invited Congressional leaders for talks Wednesday on continuing "critical" aid for Ukraine, the White House said, as concerns mount over Western support against Russia. Washington's military assistance for Ukraine has dried up, with Republicans...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A 31-year-old man has been charged in connection with an alleged plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange, police said on Monday. London's Metropolitan Police said Sean Middleborough, from Liverpool, is accused of conspiracy to cause public nuisance. Five other people...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The EU plans to be carbon neutral by 2050, but to get there it needs to pass two decadal milestones -- each implying massive adaptation by industry and consumers. The first of those has already been set: achieving at least a 55 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni on Monday warned that violence in the Red Sea sparked by Huthi attacks on shipping could push up energy prices and inflation in the bloc. This US Navy handout photo taken on April 29, 2015 shows the USS Laboon (DDG-58)...
BERLIN, Germany - Thousands of angry farmers descended on Berlin with their tractors and loudly booed a government minister on Monday, rounding off a week of nationwide protests against plans to roll back tax breaks for agriculture. A demonstrator wears a sticker on his jacket reading: "Too...
DAVOS, Switzerland - The US special envoy for Ukraine's economic recovery said Monday that tapping frozen Russian assets would be an "easy" source of money for Kyiv, but the G7 must first agree collectively to do it. Penny Pritzker spoke on the sidelines of the first day of the annual meeting...
BEIJING, China - China's campaign of warplanes, balloons and fearsome rhetoric to intimidate voters in Taiwan's elections may have failed, but few expect President Xi Jinping to deviate from his strategy of maximum pressure. Local newspapers with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP)...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - A volcano erupted just north of the Icelandic fishing village of Grindavik early on Sunday, just hours after local residents were evacuated, authorities said. TOPSHOT - People watch the billowing smoke during a volcanic eruption north of the southwestern Icelandic town of...
