President Donald Trump slammed Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday for his comments that Ukraine wouldn't recognize Russian control of Crimea, calling the remarks "very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia."
"It's (...)
Talks aimed at securing a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia have been downgraded and will no longer include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff.
The meeting in London on Wednesday will instead take place among senior (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia and India welcomed the expansion of the Saudi-Indian Strategic Partnership Council to include four ministerial committees, featuring a ministerial committee for defense cooperation and another for tourism and (...)
The US will abandon trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs a truce can be reached, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned.
"We're not going to continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on (...)
PARIS — Saudi Minister of Health Fahad Al Jalajel has concluded a three-day official visit to France, which included stops in Paris and Lyon.
The visit featured high-level meetings with French ministers, senior officials, and leaders from the health (...)
It took Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni exactly two sentences in the Oval Office on Thursday to signal to her host she was a kindred spirit.
"We both share another fight, which is the fight against the woke and DEI ideology that would like to (...)
Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and top diplomat Marco Rubio will hold talks with European counterparts in Paris to discuss efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
The talks, which UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy will also attend, form the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Health Fahad Al-Jalajel met with French Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and French Nationals Abroad Laurent Saint-Martin in Paris on Wednesday. During the meeting, they discussed ways to further enhance cooperation (...)
Several prisons in France have been hit by a wave of attacks overnight, the justice minister has said.
Gérald Darmanin said prisons had faced "intimidation attempts" ranging from vehicle burning to automatic weapon fire.
La Parisien reports that (...)
Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and culture who rarely shied away from controversy.
With more than 50 works to his name, many of which have been widely (...)
A 38-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an arson at the Pennsylvania governor's house as the governor and his family slept inside.
Harrisburg Bureau of Fire responded to the fire around 2 a.m. and extinguished it, but the building was (...)
Algeria has ordered 12 French embassy officials to leave the country within 48 hours, France's foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot confirmed on Monday.
The decision to expel the officials comes just days after prosecutors in France indicted three (...)
Saudi Arabia is undergoing a transformation unlike any other, redefining its role on the global stage. The Kingdom is emerging as a major sports hub, investing in artificial intelligence to become a leader in the field, and boldly reimagining urban (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France plans to recognize Palestine as a state in June this year.
Macron made the comments during an interview with a French television station while on a two-day trip to Egypt.
"Our goal is, (...)
PARIS — Saudi Arabia, represented by its permanent delegation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is participating in the 221st session of the UNESCO Executive Board, which began its opening sessions at (...)
JEDDAH — Rafik Mansour has assumed his duties as the new U.S. Consul General in Jeddah, bringing decades of diplomatic experience to a post central to American engagement with western Saudi Arabia and the broader Islamic world.
He will also serve as (...)
The leader of France's National Rally (RN) party, Marine Le Pen, told supporters she would not give up despite being found guilty of embezzling European Union (EU) funds and banned from running for office, but large-scale protests against the move (...)
Emmanuel Macron has lashed out against Donald Trump's decision to impose reciprocal tariffs on virtually every country, calling the move "brutal" and "unfounded" and proposing a temporary halt in future European investments in America.
The pause, he (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
