The Mexican Navy activated search and rescue efforts in the Caribbean on Thursday, in hopes to locate two missing sailboats which were carrying humanitarian aid to crisis-hit Cuba. The boats left Isla Mujeres, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, last week and were bound for Havana.
CEO of Air Canada, Michael Rousseau, apologized Thursday for his English-only message of condolence after a deadly airplane crash in a runway at New York's LaGuardia airport. Two Air Canada pilots died when the Air Canada Jazz flight they were landing collided with a fire truck on the runway on Sunday.
Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro made his second appearance in a New York court since his dramatic capture and extraction by US forces.
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The warning from the Houthi militia was clear: "Yemen... has its finger on the trigger," Abdullah Sabri, spokesman for the Houthi-run Ministry of Foreign Affairs, cautioned earlier this week. The Houthis will take "appropriate measures" should the war against Iran continue.
Last week, Thailand's parliament endorsed Anutin Charnvirakul as prime minister after his conservative Bhumjaithai party won a decisive victory in February's general election, making him the first Thai premier to be voted back into office in two decades. His coalition, which includes the populist Pheu Thai party, now controls 292 seats in the new parliament.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte presented his annual report on the alliance's activities at its headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, lauding a one-fifth real-terms increase in defense spending in Europe and Canada in 2025.
Business associations from the construction and real estate sectors, as well as academics, are warning the German government of a worsening crisis in the housing market, as building costs spiral out of control. "Germany is building far too expensively," said Dietmar Walberg, head of the Kiel-based building research institute Arge , on Thursday in Berlin.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot pose for a family photo during a G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting at the Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey in Cernay-la-Ville outside Paris, on March 27, 2026.
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It's Friday evening, and the Nightjet passenger train to Zurich, Switzerland, is due to arrive at platform 13 of Berlin's main station in Germany. Anne, Juri and around a dozen other demonstrators are standing ready in colorful pyjamas, though not to board the train.
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