Romania’s top court annulled the result of the first round of the country’s presidential election on Friday, adding that the entire election process would have to be rerun.

French President Emmanuel Macron will appoint a new prime minister in the coming days whose top priority will be getting a 2025 budget adopted by parliament, he said on Thursday.

Thousands rallied across Georgia on Thursday for a second week of pro-EU protests, after the prime minister threatened to “eradicate” the country’s “liberal-fascist” opposition.

Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama on Thursday, a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern Syria and a devastating new blow to President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies.

Bitcoin has topped $100 000 for the first time, buoyed by United States President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate a cryptocurrency advocate to lead the country’s securities regulator.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International charged in a major report released on Thursday, based on ongoing research since October 2023.

South Korean lawmakers on Wednesday called for the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law only to reverse the move hours later, triggering the biggest political crisis in decades in Asia’s fourth-largest

South Korea’s finance minister said on Wednesday the government would deploy all possible measures to stabilise financial markets if needed after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in an emergency national address.

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared emergency martial law, saying the step was necessary to protect the country from “communist forces” amid parliamentary wrangling over a budget bill.

The French government is all but certain to collapse later this week after far-right and left-wing parties submitted no-confidence motions on Monday against Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

The Ukrainian Association of South Africa has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to tell “his friend and ally” Vladimir Putin to return Ukrainian children that had been forcibly deported.

Romanians were voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, in which the far right is expected to gain from uncertainty over whether the shock result in a presidential election will stand.

The Syrian army said on Saturday dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack led by Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels who swept into the city of Aleppo, forcing the army to redeploy in the biggest challenge to Preside

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for NATO to offer guaranteed protections to parts of Ukraine controlled by Kyiv in order to ‘stop the hot stage of the war’.

Britain’s Parliament voted in favour of a new bill to legalise assisted dying on Friday, opening the way for months of further debate on an issue that has divided the country and raised questions about the standard of palliative care.

France offered the world a first look inside the restored Notre Dame cathedral on Friday, when President Emmanuel Macron inspected the medieval landmark, five years after the fire that ravaged its interior and toppled its spire.

Georgian riot police on Friday deployed tear gas and water cannon against demonstrators protesting a government decision to delay pursuing European Union accession, AFP reporters witnessed.

Australia’s social media ban for children under the age of 16 will become law after passing the Senate, the upper house of Parliament, even as questions linger over how the new restrictions will be implemented.

Russia is selecting targets in Ukraine that could include “decision-making centres” in Kyiv in response to Ukrainian long-range strikes on Russian territory with Western weapons, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

Russia carried out its second big attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure this month on Thursday, with national and local officials reporting blasts and emergency power cuts across the country.

Iran is set to meet on Friday with France, Germany and the United Kingdom for talks on its nuclear programme after the three governments joined with the United States to have Tehran censured by the UN atomic watchdog.