Category: 4. World

PARIS (AP) — Workers at the Louvre Museum voted Monday for strikes to protest their work conditions, a ticket-price hike for non-European visitors and security weaknesses that a brazen daylight theft of…

Damascus, Syria
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“Raise your head up high, you’re a free Syrian” goes the chorus of the Arabic song that has become the unofficial anthem of the new Syria. It’s…

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08/12/2025 – 16:05 GMT+1

A powerful earthquake struck off Japan’s northern coast on Monday, triggering a tsunami alert, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.

The agency said…

At least one person was killed and more than 15 others injured in Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight on Monday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a week of high-level diplomatic talks aimed at finding a way to a “dignified peace” in the nearly four-year war.

One person was…

A tsunami warning has been issued for parts of Japan’s east coast after a magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck off the coastline Monday, according to Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA).

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Doubts are growing over whether the European Union will succeed in turning Russia’s immobilised assets into a reparations loan for Ukraine, an idea that has so far faced challenges and obstacles across multiple fronts.

The clock is ticking:…

If ubiquity and handshakes were the only measures of success, Ahmed al-Sharaa would be diplomat of the year.

Since he formally became president of Syria on 29 January 2025, the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham – a jihadist group with an…