Four Iranian nationals have been charged with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist, the US Department of Justice says. The indictment did not name the target, but Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-born author, says it was her. The conspirators, de...
One man has died during rare anti-government demonstrations in Cuba that have shaken the island in recent days. Diubis Laurencio Tejeda, 36, died in a suburb of Havana on Monday during a clash between protesters and police. According to the interior ...
Lithuania has voted in favour of strict new migration laws amid an influx of arrivals from Belarus. Politicians backed the controversial legislation on Tuesday, allowing the mass detention of migrants and limiting their right to appeal. It comes as h...
The battle over voting rights in the US is a drama that’s playing out in the Congress and state legislatures across the country. In Philadelphia on Tuesday, Joe Biden gave a fiery speech, warning that American democracy is facing its greatest threat ...
“According to the first part of Article 18 of the Law on the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, he has submitted his resignation,” the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said in a statement. The statement did not elaborate on...
The top US general in Afghanistan stepped down on Monday as the United States’ military withdrawal from the country nears completion. Gen. Austin Scott Miller transferred his command authorities to Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the leader of US Central Com...
Then-President Donald Trump told a number of his advisers in 2020 that whoever leaked information about his stay in the White House bunker in May of that year had committed treason and should be executed for sharing details about the episode with mem...
England footballer Tyrone Mings has accused the home secretary of pretending to be disgusted by racist abuse, after she previously described taking the knee as “gesture politics”. Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho were targeted after they...
Google has been hit with a €500m (£427m) fine by France’s competition authority for failing to negotiate “in good faith” with news organisations over the use of their content. The authority accused Google of not taking an order to do so seriously. G...
The Met Police has seized a record £180m worth of cryptocurrency linked to international money laundering in London. The seizure is the largest of its kind in the UK – beating the pervious record set when the Met confiscated £114m of cryptocurrency ...
