Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for participating in an unauthorised assembly in 2019. Lai, 73, is currently already serving time for participating in other demonstrations that year. He wi...
Three men who assisted the perpetrators of jihadist terrorist attacks in and around Barcelona that killed 16 people in 2017 have been jailed in Spain. Two of the group were handed sentences of 53 and 46 years, while a third man was given an eight-ye...
An employee fatally shot nine people at a California train yard before turning the gun on himself as police closed in. The shooting took place at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) site in San Jose. The victims, named early on Th...
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Rwandans to forgive France for its role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died. Speaking at the genocide memorial in Rwanda's capital Kigali, he said Fran...
China has denounced US efforts to further investigate whether Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab. US President Joe Biden has called on intelligence officials to "redouble" their work to find out how the virus was first transmitted to humans. China's...
Manager Zinedine Zidane has resigned from Real Madrid for the second time in his coaching career. Real failed to win a trophy this season and were pipped to the La Liga title by city rivals Atletico Madrid on a dramatic final day on Saturday Real s...
Ukraine has officially banned the import of electricity from Belarus and Russia on May 26. The country’s energy regulator, the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC) ruled to keep the restriction in place until Oct. 1. In Januar...
For Anna Dudich, nothing will ever be the same again. Her daughter, Sofia Sapega, was on board Ryanair Flight 4978 from Athens to Vilnius when the plane was forcibly diverted to the capital of Belarus. Sofia and her boyfriend, the prominent opposi...
Singer and talk show host Kelly Clarkson will take over Ellen DeGeneres’ slot on US TV, network NBC has confirmed. Earlier this month, DeGeneres announced her talk show would come to an end in 2022 after 19 seasons. The presenter said she was leavi...
Australia’s second most populous state Victoria will enter a seven-day lockdown to counter a fast-spreading outbreak in its capital, Melbourne. The lockdown will begin at midnight on Thursday (14:00 GMT). Authorities have so far found 26 cases, and...
