Politics
The Metropolitan Police launched a criminal investigation into former minister Peter Mandelson over alleged sharing of confidential government emails with Jeffrey Epstein, and he resigned from the House of Lords.
Russia launched a large-scale missile-and-drone assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight, cutting power and heat for hundreds of thousands amid severe winter cold, Ukrainian officials said.
Donald Trump scolded CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins during a public appearance after she asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein files, telling her to "move on" and criticizing her smile.
President Trump doubled down on calls to "nationalize" U.S. elections ahead of midterms and urged Republicans to take over vote counting in about 15 states to prevent alleged noncitizen voting.
Several U.S. states moved to revise laws to let residents sue ICE agents after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, citing obstacles to holding federal agents accountable.
President Donald Trump hosted Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro at the White House, and both described the private, hours-long meeting as positive and sought a pact against drug trafficking.
President Trump demanded $1 billion in damages from Harvard in a federal legal dispute over frozen government grants, escalating the administration's challenge to the university's funding.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said she would deploy legal observers across the state to monitor and record ICE raids and document immigration enforcement.
President Donald Trump signed a $1.2 trillion spending bill at the White House, ending a partial US government shutdown and forcing talks over Homeland Security funding.
U.S. military said they shot down an Iranian drone that "aggressively" approached aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday, a claim Iranian state media disputed.
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil, but analysts, Indian officials and the Kremlin offered no confirmation and expressed doubt.
The House voted to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security, ending a partial government shutdown and giving lawmakers 10 days to negotiate limits on ICE and CBP.
China overtook the United States as Latin America's leading economic actor by financing ports, power plants and transport projects, and Donald Trump attempted to roll back Beijing's influence in Venezuela.
The EU cut health budgets, undermining cancer prevention, while England’s government said it would invest £2 billion to raise survival to 75% by 2035, and cancer groups urged local action.
Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify in late February before a Republican-led House panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein, averting a threatened contempt-of-Congress vote.
President Trump released a rendering of a planned East Wing and ballroom for the White House, saying it would match the main building’s height and scale.
Iranian security forces carried out a nationwide crackdown on protesters, rights groups said, making more than 50,000 arrests and, by some counts, causing unusually high numbers of civilian deaths.
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, son of Libya’s late dictator, was killed at his home in the Nafusa mountains, his adviser said.
Caracas was sharply divided a month after U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro, with pro‑Chavista marches demanding his return while students and families pressed for mass amnesty and prisoner releases.
The United States and Russia allowed the New START treaty to expire on Thursday, removing mutual limits on their strategic nuclear arsenals and risking a renewed arms race.
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced in Dubai that his government would ban social media for under-16s to protect children, though enforcement remained unclear.
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Roberto Vannacci left the League and announced Monday evening he would join Futuro Nazionale to run in national elections, prompting Salvini to accuse him of betrayal.
French prosecutors asked an appeal court on Tuesday to impose a five-year ban on Marine Le Pen's eligibility, but without immediate enforcement, which could still allow a 2027 bid.
Junts announced it would vote against the Spanish government's omnibus "escudo social" decree, rejecting its anti‑eviction measures while preserving the planned pension revaluation.
Paris appeals court prosecutors asked judges to maintain five years' political ineligibility for Marine Le Pen over alleged misuse of EU funds and sought a four-year prison term.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi told the Chamber in Rome that antagonists behind Turin's Askatasuna demonstrations had "political cover" and praised police for averting greater damage.
Italy issued a decree on pay equality requiring employers to make pay-setting criteria easily accessible and allowing workers paid at least 5% below the average to challenge their employers.
PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo promised in Teruel to renovate Parador de Teruel so it would not be remembered for the "fiesta de Ábalos," after ally Jorge Azcón urged reform.
El exministro José Luis Ábalos presentó ante el Supremo informes médicos pidiendo comparecer por videoconferencia en la vista previa del caso "Mascarillas", alegando diabetes, hipertensión y lumbalgia.
D66 leader Rob Jetten defended raising the statutory health-care deductible in a Tweede Kamer debate in The Hague on Tuesday over the new D66–VVD–CDA coalition agreement.
U.S. and Iranian officials were scheduled to meet in Istanbul on Friday, but Iran sought changes to the meeting’s venue and format, two people familiar with the talks said.
European Union leaders struck new trade agreements outside U.S. frameworks to reduce strategic dependence, officials said, marking a deliberate shift toward geoeconomic power politics.
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Two men were arrested in Hamburg on suspicion of attempted sabotage of German naval ships, including the corvette Emden, after gravel was found in engines and wiring was pierced.
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At her Paris appeal hearing, prosecutors sought a five-year ban on Marine Le Pen’s candidacy and a four-year prison term (three years suspended), but not immediate enforcement.
EU Commissioner Jørgensen said the European Commission presented a plan to boost affordable housing across the EU, offering more funding, less bureaucracy and tighter short‑term rental rules.
Austrian governments employed about 968 PR staff across federal, state and major city offices, as roughly 1,000 journalists were unemployed following recent media layoffs.
The U.S. military shot down an Iranian drone that approached USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, while Iranian vessels confronted a U.S. tanker in Hormuz.
NATO began planning a mission called Arctic Sentry to bolster its presence around Greenland and the Arctic, citing recent tensions with the United States.
German authorities arrested two men, a Greek and a Romanian, on suspicion of attempting to sabotage several German Navy corvettes in Hamburg, allegedly damaging engines, water and electronic systems.
Germany’s Federal Statistical Office said 13.3 million people — 16.1% of the population — were at risk of poverty in 2025, prompting political debate and criticism of recent statistical changes.
Investigators told a U.S. Senate committee they found hundreds of Credit Suisse accounts with suspected Nazi links, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley said.
The German government acquired a 25.1 percent stake in TenneT’s German unit for about €3.3 billion to secure control of critical electricity infrastructure.
Israel allowed a limited reopening of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, but only about a dozen Palestinians returning to Gaza and five medical evacuees were permitted through.
