Fashionable A-listers evoked the theme “fashion is art” to embody works of art at the Met Gala, Moscow held a modest annual Victory Day parade that didn’t include heavy weapons for the first time in nearly two decades and anti-immigration party Reform UK made significant gains across England in local and regional elections: FRANCE 24 … Read more
Keir Starmer vowed Friday to remain as Britain’s prime minister after disastrous local elections saw his centre-left Labor party humiliated across the UK, with disillusioned voters backing hard-right and nationalist parties. Thursday’s ballots – Starmer’s biggest electoral test since Labor ousted the Conservatives in 2024 – left the British leader under intense pressure after the … Read more
Activists detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan and opened fire on police, killing at least 15 and wounding three, officials said on Sunday. Gunmen stormed the police checkpost after the car blast, opening fire, according to officials who said they also used small drones in the attack. Source link
Manchester City kept the Premier League title race alive with a 3-0 win over Brentford on Saturday afternoon. League leaders Arsenal will look to re-establish their five-point lead by beating West Ham on Sunday, with another three league fixtures to come. Source link
Can charging toll for passage through the Strait of Malacca, the narrow stretch of water connecting the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, be a profitable business? Indonesia’s Finance Minister Purabaya Yudhi Sadewa floated the idea in late April. “If we split it three ways between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, it could be quite a … Read more
Jonas Lauwiner was widely dismissed as an eccentric when he held a coronation and crowned himself king of Switzerland in 2019. Since then, he has used a loophole in Swiss law to acquire a 117,000-square-meter “land empire”, but local authorities are keen to stop him in his tracks. Source link
Dietzenbach is a small German town with a population of about 35,000. Locally it is known for its open-air forest swimming pool and architecturally unusual observation tower, from which, on a clear day, you can see Frankfurt, about 12 kilometers away. Its location is probably one of the main reasons why American tech giant Google … Read more
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have threatened to target US sites in the Middle East if its tankers come under fire, Iranian media reported on Saturday, as Washington continued to wait for Tehran’s response to its latest proposal for a peace deal. Follow our live blog for all the latest updates. Source link
Militants detonated a car bomb at a police checkpoint and opened fire on officers in Bannu, northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 12 people, officials said Sunday. The attack took place late Saturday night in Fateh Khel area. Pictures from the scene show that the post has been reduced to rubble, with bricks, burnt debris and … Read more
Jihadist fighters launched a fresh wave of deadly attacks in central Mali that killed dozens of people, local and security sources said on Saturday. One local official said the latest attacks brought the death toll to more than 70 in recent days, as Islamist armed groups intensified assaults on villages across the region. Source link