Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado emerged from nearly a year in hiding to greet supporters in Oslo on Thursday after she won the Nobel Peace Prize. It was unclear how Machado managed to travel to Norway, or how she would return after Venezuela said it would consider her a fugitive if she left the country. "Of course I'm going back,"
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday he was 'ready' to hold new elections if security was ensured for the poll in the war-torn country. His comments came after US President Donald Trump accused Kyiv of "using war" to avoid elections, which have been postponed after martial law was imposed in the country following Russia's invasion in February
The thieves who stole crown jewels from the Louvre in October evaded police with just 30 seconds to spare due to avoidable security failures at the Paris museum, a damning investigation revealed on Wednesday. The probe, ordered by the culture ministry after the embarrassing daylight heist, revealed that only one of two security cameras was working
The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to order visa-exempt foreign tourists to disclose their social media histories from the last five years before entering the country, according to an official notice. The proposal laid out in a notice published Tuesday in the Federal Register would apply to visitors from 42 countries, including Britain,
Miami voters elected Eileen Higgins as the Florida city's new mayor, making her the first Democrat to hold the office in nearly 30 years. Higgins received about 60 per cent of the votes in the runoff election, according to CNN and the Miami Herald newspaper, defeating Emilio T Gonzalez, a Republican candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump. Despite
The US federal agency tasked with protecting the environment has deleted facts from its website about how human activity drives climate change, media outlets reported Tuesday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tweaked its pages to focus on the "natural processes" driving climate change - like volcano eruptions and variation in solar activity
Military aid for Ukraine plummeted in the second half of 2025 as falling European contributions failed to make up for the halt in US support, data from the Kiel Institute showed Wednesday. As US President Donald Trump wound down US contributions at the beginning of the year, Europe stepped up with record pledges of almost 20 billion euros between March
A "major" clean-up operation was ongoing in southern England on Tuesday after eight containers of bananas fell off a cargo ship, with hundreds of rotting fruits washing up along the shoreline. Some 16 containers were lost to sea by a cargo ship on Saturday, including eight containing bananas, two with plantains and one carrying avocados, the UK coastguard
Australia banned young teenagers from social media on Wednesday, launching a world-first crackdown designed to unglue children from addictive scrolling on the likes of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. A raft of the world's most popular apps and websites face US$33 million fines if they fail to purge Australia-based users younger than 16. Australia becomes
Cambodia has retaliated in a reignited border conflict with Thailand, the former leader of Cambodia said Tuesday, after Phnom Penh accused Thai forces of shelling positions overnight in fighting that has killed seven civilians and a Thai soldier. The Thai military fired shells into the border province of Banteay Meanchey after midnight, killing two
