Hungary says nuclear shutdown may come this weekend
Hungary’s sole nuclear power plant could shut down this weekend, days earlier than predicted, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said Saturday, as a sweltering heatwave strains energy systems...
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France’s largest wildfire ‘under control’, says minister
France’s largest wildfire since 1949 has been brought under control, a minister saidSaturday,more than a week since the fire erupted in a pine forest near the southwestern...
China says conducted military, coast guard drills near disputed shoal
China said it conducted military and coast guard drills on Saturday near the Scarborough Shoal, a contested reef in the South China Sea, in a...
Russia’s Africa corps kills mali civilians
Russian paramilitary group Africa Corps killed eight civilians, including three children, in Mali last month, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, during ?air strikes the...
Brazil SC authorises probe of Lula’s son
A justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court (SC) has authorized a police investigation of a son of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a judicial source...
Chile and Venezuela restore diplomatic relations
Chile said Thursday it was restoring diplomatic relations with Venezuela after severing ties with then-president Nicolas Maduro’s administration in 2024. In July of that year,...
Hamas agrees to deal for disarmament, Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza
Hamas said Friday it agreed to a deal to end the war with Israel that included provisions addressing its weapons and the gradual withdrawal of...
New intelligence body to meet in ‘den of spies’ Japan
Japan’s National Intelligence Bureau held its first meeting Friday, a body aimed at centralising information-gathering following claims that security weaknesses were making the country a...
US-backed Venezuela talks to begin without opposition leader Machado
US-backed negotiations between Venezuela’s interim government and a faction of the opposition will begin on Saturday, with the country’s most prominent opposition leader absent. The...
60,000 cross into Spanish territory of Ceuta, 34 die
Some 60,000 migrants have entered Spain’s Ceuta from Morocco in the past 24 hours, Ceuta’s president says. That is equivalent to 70pc of the city’s...
US-Iran clash enters new phase as Saudi joins strikes
The stop-start conflict between the United States and Iran appears to have entered a new phase, with Saudi Arabia publicly joining military action against Tehran-backed...
4 people die trying to cross Channel in small boats
Four people died trying to cross the Channel in small boats overnight, French officials have said.One man died after a vessel capsized off France’s northern...