Iran said Monday it had a two-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume nuclear talks with the United States, shortening a process originally expected to take seven days.
Spain's second major train collision this year has sparked debate over whether human error or rail network failures are to blame. The transport minister has blamed a traffic controller's poor judgment for Wednesday's crash in Toledo province, which killed 69 people.
The Vatican is opening a celebration of the popemobile. The now-iconic vehicle has allowed popes to get close to the faithful at home and abroad for nearly a century. The Vatican Museums unveiled a preview of the exhibition on Wednesday commemorating “A Century of the Popemobile.”
France's Senate has approved a controversial measure that could deduct riot-related damages from a family’s housing aid. This decision comes after recent cost-of-living protests led to significant unrest and damage. Nearly 2,400 people were arrested, and retailers suffered losses exceeding $1 billion.
Norway has turned to a bit of toilet humor in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent comments insulting the Scandinavian country and the Nobel Peace Prize. So, in response, Visit Norway published a guide to the world’s most beautiful toilets sprinkled across the stunning Norwegian landscape.
Pope Leo XIV on Friday told a Vatican gathering of artificial intelligence researchers and experts that the “most urgent” challenge was to identify international institutions that will put ethical principles guiding AI development into practice.
Top diplomats from the Group of 20 largest world economies have opened two days of meetings in Atlanta after European objections to Russia’s participation forced the U.S. to cancel a photo of the foreign ministers. That underscored deep rifts among the group over global crises that threaten international security and trade, such as Russia' war in Ukraine.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he expects to conclude negotiations with the European Union in June on an unprecedented partnership that would make Canada the bloc’s first “associate member.”
U.S.-based blockchain intelligence firm TRM says a North Korean hacking unit was likely behind a massive hack at Binance. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange reported Thursday that approximately $6.3 billion was impacted in an apparent hack.
Police in Scotland are investigating former Prince Andrew's time at the king's estate at Balmoral with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Authorities said Friday the inquiries are at a very early stage.
Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor who scaled the Shakespearean canon and added gravitas to a “Star Trek” franchise and the “X-Men” films, has died. He was 86. A spokesperson said Stewart died Wednesday in Los Angeles, following “a brief and poignant journey” with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy Body Dementia.
Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami on Wednesday, after he refused to concede to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva then fled the country.
The U.N. General Assembly decided overwhelmingly Wednesday to condemn the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba for the 34th year even as Washington’s campaign to influence the outcome led to a number of countries voting against the resolution or sitting out the vote for the first time.
British Treasury chief John Healey used his first budget statement Wednesday to offer households and businesses support with their energy bills this winter in the face of what he termed “global economic storms.”
A U.S. cruise ship on an around-the-world voyage that touted its cabins as floating homes suspended its three-year voyage in Cambodia due to fuel costs, forcing hundreds of passengers to disembark.
A small city in southern Ukraine, cut off for months by fighting, has got a brief pause in the nearly 5-year-old war so that aid can get in and residents can get out.
A high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train that had stopped, derailing two cars and killing at least 64 people on Wednesday in central Spain, authorities said.
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday denounced any religious justification for wars raging around the world, saying “there is no such thing as a holy war.”
More than 100 people were killed in Sudanese military drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, the capital city of the South Darfur province in the southwestern Sudan, said Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence in the country, in a statement Tuesday.
Two men appeared in a London court on Tuesday on national security charges over what prosecutors say was an Iran-backed plot against a U.S.-run military air base in England.
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