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USA

Trump awarded new peace prize from FIFA during 2026 World Cup draw

Trump, who has openly campaigned for and long coveted the Nobel Peace Prize, had been heavily favoured to win the newly created FIFA prize.

05/12/2025

Europe in Motion

Where in Europe is Trump the most popular?

How much is Meloni boosting Trump's popularity in Italy? Are the Danes still peeved over Greenland? And what are the most pro-Trump political parties in Europe?

05/12/2025

Europe News

US warns Europe of 'civilisational decline'

Complaining of "unrealistic expectations" about the prospect of defeating Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US government vows to "cultivate resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" to stop its "civilisational" decline.

05/12/2025

Poland

Exclusive: Poland sees new influx of refugees arriving from the West

Polish ambassador Jan Tombiński reports a new trend of refugees arriving from western Europe as Warsaw reviews its asylum regulations and border controls with Germany.

05/12/2025

USA

US resumes strikes on narcoboats, killing four in latest operation

US Southern Command resumed lethal strikes on alleged narcoboats, killing four amid bipartisan scrutiny of the Pentagon's anti-drug campaign.

05/12/2025

Venezuela

Former Venezuelan spy chief links Maduro's regime to narco-terrorism

Hugo Carvajal, former Venezuelan intelligence chief, has accused Nicolás Maduro's government of being a "narco-terrorist organisation" and offered to cooperate with US authorities.

04/12/2025

The Ring

Putin threatens Europe with war if it wants one - MEPs react

"If you project power, Russia is not going to attack you" - MEPs Cristian Terheș (ECR) and Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Renew Europe) discuss the security of Europe on The Ring.

03/12/2025

Culture news

What were the most-read articles on Wikipedia in 2025?

Wikipedia has released its 11th annual list of the most-read articles of the year. In 2025, people spent an estimated 2.4 billion hours reading English Wikipedia articles. The most popular entry? Charlie Kirk's page.

03/12/2025

Culture news

Sabrina Carpenter and Franklin the Turtle vs Trump administration

Sabrina Carpenter and the publisher of the beloved children’s character Franklin the Turtle are disavowing the Trump administration’s use of their music and imagery to support its agenda.

03/12/2025

USA

Trump calls Somali migrants 'garbage' during cabinet meeting

Trump's remarks came days after his administration announced it would halt all asylum decisions following the shooting of two US National Guard soldiers in Washington.

03/12/2025

Markets

Germany's Bayer sees shares pop as US government endorses legal appeal

The biotech giant is facing over 67,000 US lawsuits over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer — a claim Bayer denies.

02/12/2025

World News

White House defends follow-up strike on alleged drug boat

The controversial September strike was one in a series carried out by the US military in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, as Trump ordered the buildup of a fleet of warships near Venezuela.

02/12/2025

Honduras

Vote count under way in Honduras in close presidential race

Trump shocked Hondurans on Friday by endorsing one of the candidates and announcing that he would pardon ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year sentence in a US prison for drug trafficking.

01/12/2025

USA

Venezuela denounces US threat to its oil production in letter to OPEC+

Venezuela asked OPEC+ for support after accusing the United States of "direct aggression" that, according to Caracas, seeks to destabilise its oil production and jeopardise the stability of the world market.

01/12/2025

Travel News

US wardrobe warning falls flat as flyers slam air travel realities

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy’s video campaign romanticises an era that never truly existed, critics say.

30/11/2025

Russia

Hungary's Orbán seeks more Russian oil and gas in meeting with Putin

The Hungarian prime minister met the Russian president in Moscow to secure more oil and gas supplies, despite EU efforts to cut Russian energy imports by 2027.

28/11/2025

USA

Trump hints at ground action in Venezuela to combat drug trafficking

Tensions with Venezuela further escalated earlier this week after Washington designated the so-called Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist organisation.

28/11/2025

Europe News

EU must move forward on frozen assets, ambassador to Kyiv says

EU ambassador to Ukraine Katarína Mathernová calls on the European Union to find an agreement to use the Russian frozen assets to finance Ukraine's war effort. In a strongly worded letter sent overnight, Belgian PM De Wever pushed back against the plan citing "unequivocal risks" for his country.

28/11/2025

USA

Trump says one of the National Guards shot on Wednesday has died

One of the two US National Guard troops, deployed to serve in Washington DC from the state of West Virginia, has died in hospital from critical wounds sustained in a Wednesday shooting attack, just blocks away from the White House.

28/11/2025

Russia

Putin demands Kyiv withdraw forces from eastern Ukraine

The Russian president reiterated his maximalist demands over occupied areas of Ukraine, and insisted Moscow has no plans of slowing down its full-scale invasion or even negotiating with Kyiv.

27/11/2025