The White House on Thursday blasted a federal court’s decision to block many of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, marking a major setback to his trade strategy.

A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, but victims, some in tears, expressed disappointment with the verdict.

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the creation in the occupied West Bank of 22 new settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.

The UN on condemned a US-backed aid system in Gaza after 47 people were injured during a chaotic food distribution, where the Israeli military said it did not open fire at crowds.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off from striking Iran as he voiced optimism about nuclear talks his administration is holding with Tehran.

Israel said on Wednesday its military killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s presumed Gaza leader and the brother of Yahya, the slain mastermind of the October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war.

US President Donald Trump’s move to sidestep global regulations and begin pushing for seabed mining in international waters could pose a wider threat of competing countries claiming sovereignty over the ocean, experts say.

King Charles III stressed Canada’s proud independence on Tuesday as he delivered a major speech to open Parliament in Ottawa set against US President Donald Trump’s threat to take over the country.

The US government intends to cancel all remaining financial contracts with Harvard, a senior official said on Tuesday, in President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to force the prestigious university to submit to unprecedented oversight.

At least 44 people have been killed in separate attacks in recent days in central Nigeria, a local government official said on Tuesday, raising the toll in the latest raids in a region where herders and farmers often clash.

Germany’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed Uganda’s accusations that the German ambassador to Kampala was involved in “subversive activities”. Uganda’s armed forces said they had suspended military cooperation with Berlin.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to bring back all hostages, “living and dead”, as rescuers said Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people in Gaza.

President Donald Trump marked the annual day for honouring the US war dead on Monday by tearing into his “scum” opponents and judges who don’t rule in his favour.

French President Emmanuel Macron denied on Monday having a domestic dispute with his wife Brigitte after a video appeared to show her shoving his face away when they touched down for a visit to Vietnam, blaming disinformation campaigns for trying to put false meaning on the footage.

Namibia will on Wednesday hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century, the government said.

Israeli police were deploying near the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday ahead of an annual event marking Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem, held this year under the shadow of the war in Gaza.

Attendees at a graduation event for new US army officers on Saturday tried to brush off inflammatory remarks by Donald Trump, but said they were unsurprised by the president’s rhetoric.