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The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine worth close to €519 million from a fishing vessel off the coast of West Africa, French authorities said on Thursday, September 25.

On Thursday, Slovenia declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persona non grata, preventing him from entering the country, as announced by the government following a Cabinet session.

A Czech company and its manager have been convicted of defrauding the European Union of about €220,000 ($258,336) in subsidies for a dust-reduction project, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) said.

Five suspects were arrested and assets frozen during coordinated searches in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria.

Drone activity near four airports in Denmark overnight was the “work of a professional actor,” Denmark’s defence minister has warned just two days after the country’s main hub was shut down in response to sightings that unsettled European aviation.

William Shatner has been taken in an ambulance to hospital after suffering a medical emergency.

The family of a dad who died during a ‘pirate ship’ boat trip have claimed ‘unbothered’ staff then held a foam party for horrified guests.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been handed a five-year jail sentence.

The heartbroken family of a British woman killed in the US is facing a huge bill to bring her body home.

Rihanna has confirmed the birth of her first daughter, days after partner A$AP Rocky teased they may have secretly tied the knot.

A father allegedly hurled his two-year-old daughter into a river with alligators after shooting dead his girlfriend, who was the baby’s mother.

A man has admitted to engaging in sexual activity with an actual real-life horse.

A body feared to belong to a missing British tourist who vanished from his Spanish hotel has been discovered.

A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing two detainees and wounding another before taking his own life, authorities said.

YouTube will offer creators a way to return to the streaming platform if they were banned for violating COVID-19 and election misinformation policies that are no longer in effect, its parent company Alphabet said Tuesday.

The head-spinning twists emerge so frequently in US President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy, they have become mundane.

Florida is suing the massively popular anime and hentai games platform Nutaku, as well as the payment processor Segpay, in two complaints that allege the companies ignored the state’s age verification law.

At least one person has been killed in a shooting at an immigration facility in Dallas, Texas, with two more taken to the hospital.

The deadly super typhoon Ragasa tore through Taiwan and the Philippines and is now wreaking havoc in Hong Kong and China.

Vladimir Antonov, the former owner of the Lithuanian bank Snoras and the Latvian Krājbanka, has once again found himself at the centre of a high-profile scandal.

The few remaining hospitals and clinics in central and southern Gaza are being overwhelmed by a "tsunami" of injured and sick patients fleeing a new Israeli offensive in the north of the devastated territory, medics say.

Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was released under a presidential pardon after spending nearly 12 years in and out of prison, following international and domestic pressure.

Tens of thousands rallied in Manila on Sunday against alleged corruption in billions of taxpayer funds lost to “ghost” flood-control projects now under investigation by the Senate and House of Representatives.