World News

After slowly taxiing towards the runway at NATO’s Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany, the pilots go full throttle and the decades-old E-3 Sentry surveillance plane screams as it gains speed and lifts off on its way to Eastern Europe.

A large fire broke out Thursday night at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, a city south of Los Angeles, officials said.

Venezuela on Thursday said it had detected five US fighter jets flying near its Caribbean coast.

Violent anti-government protests in Morocco entered their fifth day on Thursday, after seeing their first fatalities the night before when police shot two demonstrators.

Vladimir Putin has vowed to quickly retaliate against Europe’s “escalating militarization,” while dismissing as “nonsense” western fears that Moscow plans to attack NATO.

Ryanair could cancel up to 600 flights a day next week due to French air traffic control (ATC) strikes, the airline has claimed.

Elon Musk, the multibillionaire and self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has recently focused his attention on encouraging people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company’s “woke bias” and inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters.

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office has filed an indictment against five additional suspects accused of belonging to an international cocaine smuggling group dismantled in Operation “General,” in July last year—one of the largest international crackdowns on cocaine trafficking at the time.

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized after being poisoned in a suspected assassination attempt in Moscow, a human rights group has claimed.

Among the 10 people arrested in Fiji last week in a major anti-drug operation was the son of a senior pro-China politician from Palau, who presides over his country’s Senate.

Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutors have sent to court a large-scale criminal case against officials of the Chernivtsi Customs Office, accused of running a “grey import” scheme that cost the state nearly 290 million hryvnias (about $7 million).

Facing deep democratic backsliding, Georgia heads into local elections with opposition parties sidelined, watchdogs forced out by the different restrictive laws, international monitors invited too late, and oversight left largely to groups aligned with the ruling party.

An Algerian court sentenced former Labor Minister Tijani Hassan Haddam to seven years in prison for embezzling roughly $45 million during his time as director of the National Social Security Fund from 2015 to 2019, local media reported.

Burkina Faso’s parliament initiated an investigation into irregularities in the real estate sector in 2020, but the findings were never published.

Nearly a thousand Hungarians organized a “safari tour” protest outside a luxurious estate associated with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s family, satirizing alleged corruption with zebra costumes and placards reading “Filthy Fidesz.”

More than 60 Georgian media and civil society organizations have been required to disclose donor and grant data under a new law, resulting in warnings that the government is utilizing regulations as a tool to intimidate and silence independent voices.

Greta Thunberg is among a group of Palestine activists facing deportation from Israel after a flotilla of vessels sailing towards was intercepted by the Israeli navy.

French military personnel have boarded an oil tanker listed among Russia’s “shadow fleet” vessels, suspected of being a launchpad for mysterious drone flights that led to the closure of airports in Denmark last week.

A German man went on a deadly rampage involving guns, explosives, and arson against his family and then killed himself on Wednesday, raising security concerns in Munich that led to the temporary closure of the world-famous Oktoberfest for seven hours.

A former university student who weighed as little as 3.5 stone after adopting an extreme ’fruitarian’ diet when she was a teenager was found dead in a hotel room in Bali.

Shocked motorists were left stunned when a small plane made an emergency landing on a busy motorway.

A 52-year-old skydiver fell to her death after a "faulty" parachute failed to open during a solo jump.

Dame Jane Goodall, known for her ground-breaking studies involving chimpanzees, has died.

Activists, including Greta Thunberg, on a flotilla attempting to deliver aid to Gaza say they have been encircled by Israeli warships performing "dangerous and intimidatory manoeuvres".