Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee apologised on Thursday for a fire that ravaged a residential tower block in Tai Po in November 2025, killing 168, injuring 79 and displacing thousands of others. Housing Secretary Winnie Ho resigned Wednesday after her department was found to have failed to supervise the maintenance work. A three-month investigation into ...

A shooter suspected of killing one person and wounding five others last week in the town of Trappes, near Paris,was transferredto the Paris Judicial Courton Thursday, where he may be formally charged. France's national anti-terrorism prosecutor Olivier Christen is due to speak Thursday at 11am, with his statement to be broadcast live on FRANCE 24.

North Korea fired around a dozen short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Thursday, Seoul's defence ministry said. Pyongyang has stepped up weapons tests in recent weeks despite South Korea's offer of military talks.

Spain entered three days of mourning on Thursday after a high-speed train collision killed 68 people and injured scores. The incident has prompted fresh questions about rail safety and management.

Liverpool reached the League Cup quarter-finals after eliminating Chelsea on penalties (6-5), following a 1-1 draw. Wesley Fofana sealed the Blues exit by sending his spot-kick well over the bar. Another French defender at Chelsea, Maxence Lacroix, went off injured before half-time, a week before the France squad is announced.

With more than 90% of the ballots counted on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc has gained 53 seats, with the opposition at 67, including 48 for Gadi Eisenkot's centrist bloc and 19 for the Arab-majority parties. The Israeli president called on the parties on Wednesday to "do everything" to form a government coalition and avoid a ...

Brazil's defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro insisted Wednesday he is his country's rightful leader after arriving in the United States to start a self-imposed exile. Bolsonaro's defiance on fleeing to Florida signaled continued upheaval for Brazil, where leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a dramatic runoff election ...

A rail collision in Spain that claimed at least 68 lives on Wednesday came after a train was ordered to go in "error" despite a technical failure that halted all services, the transport minister said. The first findings about the accident in the central region of Castilla-La Mancha are likely to revive questions about rail safety in Spain after another ...

As winter approaches, the price of European natural gas topped 100 / megawatt hour, its highest level since 2022. The EU says it's not worried about supplies, although its storage facilities are only 72% full, but warns households of a 'difficult' season to come. Also in the show - the UK government tries to cushion the impact of high energy bills, and 200 ...

Questions are being raised about Spain's rail safety as authorities launch an official investigation into the cause of Wednesday's high-speed train collision, which killed at least 68 people and wounded around 100 more, in the country's second fatal rail crash this year.

In tonight's edition, asummit with nearly two dozen African leaders opens in Moscow with the Kremlin describing their countries as natural allies against the West. Also, Nigerian investigatorssay that dozens of detained miners who died in a crowded jail cell screamed for help as jailors ignored their suffering. And ahead of the Youth Olympics in ...

Two Arab-majority parties are set to win a historic 19 seats in total, amid a record turnout at the polls in Israel on Tuesday. Voters from the community, descendants of Palestinians who stayed after Israel's creation and who make up around 20 percent of the population, have been enraged by the Netanyahu government's ultra-nationalist Jewish vision for the ...

Brazil's defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro arrived in Florida by private plane Wednesday after fleeing his country in defiance of a court order to surrender his passport. Bolsonaro, who lost a runoff election to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday, is under investigation in Brazil for alleged corruption and money ...

Franois Picard is pleased to welcome Vitalii Kim, Minister for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine. If Europe will not support us, we also will fight because it's our motherland, says Kim, insisting that Ukraine's determination to resist Russian aggression will endure regardless of the outcome of negotiations over European financial assistance. Yet behind this ...

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Dr. Shira Efron, RAND's Distinguished Israel Policy Chair. Many of us, myself included, underestimated the extent of the fracture in Israeli society. It reflects a political system in which ideological polarisation, the rightward shift of the Jewish electorate and the contested legitimacy of Arab political participation ...

A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 68 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters this century. The second such accident to strike Spain this year will raise fresh questions about the country's rail safety, with the transport minister speaking of an ...

In Israel, the surprises only start with election night: they're still counting ballots in a vote that featured the highest turnout in decades, historic inroads by Arab parties, Benjamin Netanyahus worst result since 1999 and yet Israels longest-serving prime minister still has a path to staying in power. As we await the definitive makeup of the next ...

Flavio Bolsonaro's clandestine escape to the United States bewildered Brazil and triggered a frantic search for his whereabouts. The Supreme Court had ordered the son of jailed ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro to forfeit his passports after his electoral loss on Sunday, amid fears he would leave the country due to ongoing investigations against him. But the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to woo African leaders and government delegates on Wednesday as they gathered in Moscow for the third Russia-Africa Summit to discuss trade, security, arms deals and grain supplies as part of the Kremlin's strategic efforts to expand its footprint in Africa.