Syria has strongly condemned a fresh wave of Israeli strikes on airbases and other military sites overnight as an "unjustified escalation".
The foreign ministry said the attacks almost destroyed Hama airbase and injured dozens of people. A (...)
A Libyan writer and politician who published documents linking his country's intelligence service to the Lockerbie bombing has been arrested on national security charges.
Samir Shegwara was taken into custody two days after the BBC reported that the (...)
RIYADH — Fifteen Saudi business leaders found a place on the annual World's Billionaires list, released by Forbes magazine. The number of Saudi billionaires listed on Forbes rose from 10 in 2017 to 15 in 2025 when this year marked Saudi Arabia's (...)
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to appeal a court verdict that sentenced her to prison and barred her from running for political office for five years.
She called it a "denial of democracy" and a politically motivated move to (...)
French far-right leader and presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to four years in prison — two of them suspended — and barred from holding political office for five years in a high-profile corruption case involving European (...)
North Korea appears to have sent at least 3,000 more soldiers to Russia early this year, South Korea's military said Thursday, demonstrating Pyongyang's continued support for Moscow's war on Ukraine as world leaders push for an end to the three-year (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged an additional €2 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
The announcement came during a press conference in Paris on Wednesday evening, ahead of a high-stakes international summit on Ukraine's long-term (...)
Competing narratives have emerged between Washington and Paris over why a researcher was recently denied entry to the United States, in the latest example of an immigration refusal under the Trump administration testing international (...)
A report considered the world's most trusted source of climate updates has laid out the parlous state of a planet that has recorded its 10 hottest years over the last decade.
The World Meteorological Organization's State of the Global Climate report (...)
Defense ministers from Europe's five largest military nations—France, Germany, Britain, Italy, and Poland—met in Paris on Wednesday to discuss a new security framework for Ukraine in response to the US-Russia rapprochement.
French Defence Minister (...)
The number of reported victims of sexual violence on public transport hit a record high in France last year, a report has revealed.
The study, which was published by the National Observatory on Violence Against Women on Monday, found that the annual (...)
The dusty highway leading to Sidhpur, in western India's Gujarat state, winds through arid landscapes past roadside eateries and herds of lumbering camel, offering little hint of what the historic town holds.
In the heart of Sidhpur lies a street (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron is spearheading an accelerating effort to reshape European security. He is taking the initiative just as the European Commission agrees on an €800bn plan to bolster European defense sovereignty in response to the (...)
Prince Frederik of Luxembourg has died after a lifelong battle with a rare genetic disorder known as POLG mitochondrial disease.
He passed away on March 1 in Paris, his family announced on the website of the POLG Foundation, which Frederik started (...)
PARIS — Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Spain Princess Haifa bint Abdulaziz Al-Muqrin handed over her credentials as a non-resident ambassador to the Principality of Andorra to French President and the Co-Prince of Andorra Emmanuel Macron in a ceremony (...)
France formally began its military withdrawal from Senegal on Friday, transferring control of two key facilities to the West African nation as part of a broader shift in its regional strategy.
"The French side handed over to the Senegalese side the (...)
Eurostar announced it would be canceling all of its high-speed trains between Paris to London and Brussels after an unexploded World War II era bomb was found near the French capital's central Gare du Nord station.
"All Eurostar trains are cancelled (...)
France is a loyal and steadfast ally in NATO, French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized on Thursday, amid his US counterpart Donald Trump's repeated doubts about the military alliance.
The French leader invoked a list of historical events whereby (...)
PARIS — Saudi Arabia has officially submitted the Registration Dossier for World Expo 2030 Riyadh to the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), marking a significant milestone in the Kingdom's preparations to host the global event.
The dossier, (...)
EU leaders are gathering in Brussels on Thursday for a special council on defense, as France's President Emmanuel Macron warned that the continent was at a "turning point of history".
As well as rearmament, leaders are expected to discuss how the (...)
RIYADH — Dunia Abu Talib, the Saudi Olympic taekwondo champion, has once again etched her name in history by claiming the number one spot in the global taekwondo rankings for the under-53kg category.
This remarkable achievement makes her the first (...)
A Scottish Sikh man detained in India for seven years on terror charges has been cleared in one of nine cases against him.
Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton was arrested in 2017 in the country's northern Punjab region weeks after his wedding (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron cautioned on Saturday that a just and lasting peace cannot be achieved by forsaking Ukraine, urging cooler heads after a tense Oval Office exchange between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President (...)
Two researchers employed at France's main state research agency were handed an eight-month sentence on Thursday for throwing explosives at the Russian consulate in the southern French city of Marseille.
The two scientists, who work at the Centre (...)
For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient past.
Their digs have uncovered early scripts that rewrite literacy timelines, mapped maritime trade routes connecting India (...)
