The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States has announced that it disrupted an alleged “terrorist attack” in the northern state of Michigan.

Around 30 lawyers have filed a complaint against the French justice minister accusing him of “implicitly” supporting former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who is serving a prison sentence.

Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a US-brokered ceasefire plan, a hospital told AFP.

Russia launched an overnight attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, injuring 11 residents, including four children, Ukraine’s emergency services said.

US Vice President JD Vance warned of a potential holiday meltdown if a government shutdown stretches into the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel season and urged Democrats to provide the votes to reopen the government.

The death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose to nearly 50 people, officials said, after the ferocious storm devastated Caribbean islands and was bearing down on Bermuda.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the airport in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, will reopen to humanitarian flights months after it was closed when the city was seized by the M23 armed group.

French police have arrested five new people, including a main suspect, over this month’s daring jewellery theft from the Louvre museum, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing on a level with China and Russia – just minutes before opening a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

North Korea has test-fired several sea-to-surface cruise missiles into its western waters, according to state media, hours before US President Donald Trump begins a visit to South Korea.

Hurricane Melissa picked up strength as it bore down on Cuba, where it is expected to make landfall after ripping a path of destruction through Jamaica as one of the most powerful hurricanes on record there, lashing the island nation with brutal winds and torrential rain.

Rising floodwater and extreme winds hit Jamaica on Tuesday as the Caribbean island braced for the imminent landfall of Hurricane Melissa, and officials pleaded with residents to take shelter.

Israel is a model for Taiwan to learn from in strengthening its defences, President Lai Ching-te said in remarks, citing the Biblical story of David versus Goliath on the need to stand up to authoritarianism.

The UN forecast the first decline in greenhouse gases ever, but the world remains well off course in keeping global warming below the 1.5 °C leaders committed to when they signed the Paris Agreement a decade ago.

Japan’s new premier Sanae Takaichi lavished US leader Donald Trump with praise and vows of a “golden age” of ties on his visit to Tokyo, before signing a deal with Washington aimed at securing critical minerals.

Melissa could be the worst hurricane Jamaica has experienced since recordkeeping began – but some residents on the Caribbean island say they will believe it when they see it.

Venezuela blasted the arrival in nearby Trinidad and Tobago of a US warship as a dangerous “provocation”, amid mounting fears of potential attacks against the Venezuelan mainland.

Ten people went on trial in Paris on Monday charged with sexist online harassment of Brigitte Macron, in the latest case linked to unsubstantiated gender claims thrown at the French first lady in France and beyond.

US President Donald Trump ruled out running for the vice presidency in the 2028 US election, an approach some of his supporters have floated to allow the Republican president to serve an additional term in office.

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, 92, has been re-elected for an eighth term with 53.7% of the vote, according to official results announced by the Constitutional Council.

Argentina’s budget-slashing leader Javier Milei pulled off a stunning win in midterm elections, boosting the flagging reform agenda of the US-backed right-winger.