China said Wednesday it had "high appreciation" for the African countries that denied overflight rights to the plane of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, forcing him to cancel a trip to Eswatini. China claims self-governed Taiwan as part of its territory and opposes the island having diplomatic relations with other countries.
The number of foreign-born people living in the EU reached a record high of 64.2 million in 2025, according to a report released Wednesday.
The US government is in talks to send Afghans currently residing at a former US base in Qatar to the Democratic Republic of Congo, AfghanEvac, a group seeking to help the former allies said Tuesday.
Mexican authorities on Tuesday said a gunman who killed one person and injured several others at the Teotihuacan pyramids in central Mexico had carried materials related to attacks in the United States. One Canadian tourist was killed while visitors from Canada, Colombia, Russia, Brazil and the United States were among those injured in the Monday shooting.
Children who do not reach the age of 18 before January 1, 2027 will never be permitted to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in the UK, once a new law that has now completely cleared parliament gets royal assent from King Charles III.
Is Bulgaria going to be governed by its very own Viktor Orban? Or will the rampant corruption in the country finally be tackled?
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A man reads a newspaper with a front page article referring to anticipated US-Iran peace talks, at a stall in Islamabad on April 22, 2026.
Dacian gold items, a 2,500-year-old helmet and wristbands, stolen from a museum in the Netherlands and then recovered by Dutch authorities, are presented during a press conference after being returned, at the National Museum of Romanian History, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, April 21, 2026.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's government said it was beefing up security at tourist sites after a man opened fire on tourists at pyramids outside of Mexico City less than two months before the FIFA World Cup.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday that he was canceling a planned trip to Africa this week after China pressured three countries not to let him fly over their territory.
Is Bulgaria going to be governed by a second Viktor Orban? Or will the rampant corruption in the country finally be tackled?