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…
An attacker armed with two knives struck a police officer guarding Israel’s embassy in Belgrade shortly after midnight on Wednesday, lightly wounding him before the officer shot him dead, Serbia’s interior minister said. The wounded officer, a member of the…
A collision involving two high-speed trains on the Madrid-Andalusia line near Urda, in Toledo province, killed no fewer than ten people and injured others on Wednesday morning, according to the Castilla-La Mancha regional government. The crash happened shortly after nine…
Six divers are working in the chill waters of the Baltic near Dahme, a little coastal town in the north of Germany, to rebuild an underwater meadow one shoot at a time. With roots left whole, conservationists lift young seagrass…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded 10,060 Ebola cases and 4,887 deaths linked to an outbreak first detected in mid-May. The cause is the Bundibugyo virus. No licensed vaccine and no targeted medicine have been approved for it. Africa…
Jordan’s government said on Tuesday that civilians were among those killed when its air force struck alleged Islamic State targets in southern Syria the night before, an admission that came as Syrian officials offered a different casualty count and accused…
Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, on Tuesday criticized the leaders of Finland and Norway for holding a joint telephone call with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, about how to end the war in Ukraine. The conversation took place before peace talks…
Washington has quietly begun re-engaging with Myanmar’s military-backed administration, according to the source account, through two rounds of discussions since September involving Michael Vance, a State Department representative. American diplomats reportedly met Myanmar officials in Naypyitaw and later in Tokyo…
Reports from Brazil say Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, former President Jair Bolsonaro’s oldest son, has flown to the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential runoff. The Supreme Court had ordered him to give up his passports while investigations proceed, and the…
France international Kylian Mbappe has apologised after a video apparently showed him describing Mao Zedong as a “Chinese dictator,” a remark that cost the Real Madrid forward sponsorship deals with three Chinese companies and led the country’s state television to…
Israel’s armed campaign in Hebron, a city in the occupied West Bank, drew strong criticism on Monday from the UN secretary-general and the UN human rights commissioner. The operation was launched in response to a Friday exchange of fire that…
Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind the Claude AI assistant, made its case for a public listing on Monday by releasing paperwork for a Nasdaq debut under the ticker ANT. The step puts the five-year-old firm on course for an…
German police are looking into the conduct of the Mein Schiff 3’s captain after the TUI Cruises liner hit two container ships in Bremerhaven, a collision that produced damage put in the millions of euros and led to the scrapping…
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a fourth term by beating Flavio Bolsonaro in a runoff, and on Monday, October 26, 2026, congratulations came from African capitals, Moscow and Berlin. The result also jolted markets: Sao Paulo’s exchange…
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, returned home on Sunday after nearly a year in exile and was greeted in Caracas by thousands of cheering supporters. People stood along highways, at toll plazas and on city streets, waving Venezuelan…
Emmanuel Macron used a visit to Marseille on Monday to signal that his administration will unveil a set of “strong measures” meant to cool weeks of unrest, while cautioning that another round of nationwide protests set for Saturday would be…
Audi has confirmed that it will build its first factory in the United States on a site near Macon, Georgia. The Volkswagen-owned brand puts the project at roughly $4 billion, or €3.6 billion, and says it should create about 4,500…
On Monday in Marseille, President Emmanuel Macron announced that his administration would soon present “strong measures” intended to ease weeks of unrest across France, and he warned that rallies planned for the coming Saturday were risky. He said protest routes…
