US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday visited Azerbaijan, arriving from Armenia as part of a regional trip aimed at consolidating a US-brokered peace process between the Caucasus neighbours. The visit follows US President Donald Trump's mediation last year of a peace agreement between the historical rivals Baku and Yerevan, which have fought two wars
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver turned 50 on Sunday. Nominated for four Oscars and winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Festival, Scorsese’s searing, hallucinatory portrait of urban alienation is widely regarded as one of the most important American films of all time. It is also unquestionably one of the most troubling. Read the full story on
EU lawmakers backed plans Tuesday for a digital euro, a project that has split the bloc but has gained greater urgency as Europe seeks to bolster its financial sovereignty. Lawmakers voted in favour of two amendments to an annual report on the European Central Bank (ECB), expressing support for the introduction of the digital currency. The electronic
A second woman testified at a court in Oslo on Tuesday, accusing the son of Norway's crown princess of raping her while she slept, describing it as her "worst nightmare". Marius Borg Hoiby, Crown Princess Mette-Marit's 29-year-old son from a relationship before her 2001 marriage to heir apparent Crown Prince Haakon, is on trial facing 38 charges, including
French prosecutors Tuesday announced that a 79-year-old former educator has been charged for aggravated rape and sexual assault committed against 89 minors in multiple countries between 1967 and 2022. Prosecutor Etienne Manteaux spoke to reporters in the southeastern city of Grenoble to publicise the case and appeal for witnesses and any other potential
Daring thieves tried to force open an armoured cash van in a dramatic ambush on an Italian motorway on Monday, but were thwarted in an exchange of fire by quick-thinking policemen. The incident happened between Lecce and Brindisi when a gang of masked gunmen blocked the road by setting a van and a small truck on fire. As the armoured van came to a
Barcelona's eternally unfinished Sagrada Familia has grown to become the world's tallest church, but a conflict with residents threatens to delay the finish date for the monument designed over 140 years ago. Swathed in scaffolding on a platform 54 metres (177 feet) above the ground, an enormous stone slab is being prepared to complete the cross of
President Donald Trump has threatened to stop the opening of a new bridge between the United States and Canada, in a fresh salvo against the country he has suggested should become the 51st US state. Trump said the United States should own "at least half" of the still under-construction Gordie Howe International Bridge that links the Canadian province
The UN migration agency on Monday said 53 people were dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. Only two survivors were rescued. The International Organization for Migration said the boat overturned north of Zuwara on Friday, in the latest disaster involving migrants attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been criticised for its violent methods within the USA and abroad. With a record budget, thousands of new hires, ICE is central to Trump’s migration and deportation policies.
