A National Police officer was killed and a bomb-disposal specialist gravely wounded on Tuesday morning in Oviedo, northern Spain, when a backpack containing an explosive device detonated at the entrance of a residential building in the Villafría neighborhood. The blast…
France has formally pointed the finger at Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for a cyber operation that knocked out temperature controls on commercial refrigeration units in hundreds of stores across Europe, an intrusion Paris is calling without precedent. Foreign Minister…
The suspected gunman who opened fire in central Krakow on Saturday has died in hospital, Polish police said on Monday, two days after officers shot and critically wounded him within minutes of the attack. The 24-year-old Polish national had undergone…
President Donald Trump has acknowledged that his administration’s mass deportation campaign may have cost his party at the ballot box, telling CBS’s 60 Minutes that the enforcement push was “too tough” and that he is open to negotiating an immigration…
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has given opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot the first chance to build a governing coalition, a decision that puts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future in doubt. Herzog informed Eisenkot of the choice on Saturday evening and…
President Donald Trump used his Truth Social account on Saturday to say he has offered the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the president and chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The announcement, which did not…
Democrats have captured majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time since Republicans took control, capping a midterm election on November 3 that also delivered governorships in states long considered Republican territory, including Texas.…
Polling stations across New Zealand shut at 7 p.m. local time on Saturday, ending a general election campaign in which neither of the two major parties established a clear advantage and the cost of living overshadowed almost everything else. Preliminary…
Germany’s government conceded on Friday that staging the men’s ice hockey world championship next May looks untenable while Russia remains eligible to compete, yet it is not abandoning the effort to keep the tournament on home ice. A government spokesman…
A school bus carrying passengers in eastern France left the roadway and slammed into a tree on Friday morning, injuring multiple people, local authorities said. Two of the injured were reported to be in serious condition. The crash occurred near…
Russell Brand, the British comedian, actor and broadcaster, was convicted on Thursday of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, bringing to a close a three-week trial at Southwark Crown Court in London. The jury of eight…
Hong Kong’s High Court handed democracy campaigner Joshua Wong an additional 10-year prison term on Thursday, convicting him of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the national security law Beijing imposed on the city in 2020. Wong, who turns…
Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente announced his resignation in Congress on Tuesday, hours after presenting a package of emergency aid and safety measures in response to the October 28 high-speed train collision near Urda, south of Madrid, that killed 69…
At least six passenger aircraft were searched across Europe on Tuesday after a string of bomb threats triggered emergency diversions, a temporary airport closure and the scrambling of military jets, with authorities in Poland, Spain, Bulgaria and Italy ultimately finding…
President Donald Trump used his final major rally before the November 3 midterm elections to declare the contest the most consequential of a generation, while simultaneously preparing his supporters for the possibility that Republicans could lose. Speaking at the Lincoln…
On October 21, 2026, the PHP Foundation disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the core engine of PHP, the open-source language that underpins a huge share of the web. Tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and nicknamed “php2shell,” both are remote code…
Binance has halted deposits and withdrawals across its platform while it investigates a security incident that the exchange says affected roughly $6.3 billion in assets, a figure that would make it the largest cryptocurrency theft on record. The company said…
Christine Lagarde will end her tenure as president of the European Central Bank on 7 February 2027, cutting short a mandate that had years left to run. The ECB confirmed the decision in a statement, saying Lagarde had personally notified…
An online campaign called "Gen Z regelt" — commonly translated as "Gen Z sorts it" — has urged supporters to take to the streets in 23 German cities this Saturday, a plan that has unsettled politicians in Berlin. The effort…
Senegal will open the 2026 Summer Youth Olympics on October’s final day, an edition that could be the last Summer Youth Games and the first in Africa. About 2,700 athletes aged 15 to 17 will compete in 153 events across…
