Chinese national in California jailed for exporting weapons to North Korea

Shenghua Wen, 42, received around $2 million (€1.7 million) from North Korean officials to ship firearms and ammunition from California.

A Chinese national in Ca...

Bus crash in Afghanistan kills dozens of migrants returning from Iran

A collision between a bus and two other vehicles killed at least 79 people, including 19 children, in northwestern Afghanistan, local media reported.

At least 79...

Syria and Israel hold first direct talks in US-brokered meeting

In US-brokered talks, Syria and Israel discussed restoring a 1974 ceasefire to de-escalate tensions following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Syria and Isr...

Aid drivers hope for Gaza entry as Egyptian and Palestinian leaders meet at Rafah crossing

Euronews travelled to the Rafah border crossing with the Egyptian foreign minister and the Palestinian premier.

Approaching the Egyptian border with the Gaza Str...

US and EU to push for the return of abducted Ukrainian children from Russia

The return of the forcefully deported Ukrainian children “is a subject at the top of all lists,” Donald Trump said, adding that the US and Europe will work togeth...

Israel under pressure to respond to ceasefire proposal as strikes on Gaza continue

Mediator Qatar has stressed the urgency of brokering a ceasefire in Gaza after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a proposal from Arab countries, but Israel ha...

Trump says US troops won't defend Ukraine and warns Kyiv NATO membership is 'impossible'

Trump said after his meeting in Alaska last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Putin was open to the idea of security guarantees for Ukraine.

US Pre...

Officials win court case to remove migrants from UK hotel that's been focus of protests

Thousands of people have protested near the hotel in Epping after an asylum seeker living there was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

A hotel ...

Kyiv residents react to Zelenskyy-Trump talks on ending Russia's war in Ukraine

Residents of Kyiv closely monitored meetings between Zelenskyy, Trump, and European leaders, as the US president hopes for talks with Putin to end the war in Ukra...

Iraq says tip-off to Lebanon led to destruction of amphetamine factory

Western governments estimate that Captagon has generated billions of euros in revenue for former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his associates and allies.

One...

Finnish MP Eemeli Peltonen found dead in Helsinki parliament in apparent suicide

Finland's parliament is currently in summer recess but Prime Minister Petteri Orpo suspended all political work on Tuesday as a mark of respect.

Finnish politici...

New Zealand soldier admits attempted espionage in country's first such conviction

The soldier came to law enforcement attention as part of an operation after a 2019 terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, when a white supremacist opene...

Suspect in car-ramming attack on German Christmas market charged with murder

The suspect is charged with six counts of murder, 338 counts of attempted murder and 309 counts of bodily harm.

The suspect in a fatal car-ramming attack on a Ch...

Spain battles record fires despite end of heatwave bringing cooler temperature

The Spanish government will declare the areas affected by the deadly wildfires that have ravaged much of its northern Galicia province as disaster zones.

The Spa...

Bolivia's presidential frontrunner has 'phone stolen' while celebrating first-round win

Centrist senator Rodrigo Paz is up against conservative ex-President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga in a runoff on 19 October to determine Bolivia's next leader.

The surpr...

Search under way for 150 people missing after devastating flooding in Pakistan

A changing climate has made residents of northern Pakistan's river-carved mountainous areas more vulnerable to sudden, heavy rains.

People in Pakistan searched r...

Russians opposing the regime face uncertainty as Germany halts humanitarian visas

Alexey Moskalyov and his daughter Masha Moskalyova fled Russia after he was imprisoned for discrediting the army. Germany rejected their humanitarian visa, leavin...

Ship with hundreds of tonnes of food aid for Gaza nears Israeli port after leaving Cyprus

Cyprus was the staging area last year for 22,000 tonnes of aid deliveries by ship directly to Gaza through a pier operated by the international charity World Cent...

Dressed for diplomacy: Zelenskyy's new style wins praise in meeting with Trump

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was complimented by US President Donald Trump for his outfit in their Oval Office meeting on Monday.

When Ukrainian Presi...

Israel set to approve 'largest' gas supply deal in its history to Egypt

After two years of delays, the Israeli government is expected to finalise the deal with Egypt in the next two weeks, involving exports from Leviathan, Israel's la...

South Korea-US drills trigger Kim Jong-un to pledge nuclear force expansion

Pyongyang has long denounced the allies’ joint drills as invasion rehearsals and Kim has often used them to justify his own military displays and testing activiti...