
Hungary grants asylum to Polish ex-justice minister
Granting asylum to a citizen of a fellow EU member goes against the spirit of EU standards.
THURSDAY, 15 JANUARY 2026, 10:44

Granting asylum to a citizen of a fellow EU member goes against the spirit of EU standards.
Pope Leo received Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the Vatican on Monday, the Holy See said.

Bathers found the body parts in Puerto López, a town which has been wracked by gang violence.

Local officials said they do not know where the exotic animals came from or how many are at large.

Footage recorded by Spanish skier Ares Masip shows the incident on Pic de l’Hortell, a mountain in Andorra.
US President Donald Trump has named himself acting Venezuelan president, more than a week after the US military invaded the country and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela has begun releasing political prisoners in what the government calls a goodwill gesture, days after the U.S. seized President Nicolás Maduro.

Iran warned the U.S. and Israel against military action as activists said at least 203 people have been killed in the nationwide protests, a toll they say is likely far higher.

President Trump has threatened Iran amid a deadly crackdown on protesters. NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks to Holly Dagres of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy about the protests.

Ai’s cognitive abilities had been studied extensively since she was brought to a Japanese institute in 1977.

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

President Trump said Sunday that Iran proposed negotiations after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its crackdown targeting demonstrators. Activists say at least 544 have died.

Hundreds of protesters have been killed in Iran, rights groups say, as President Trump threatened “strong” military action.

The new law, which came into effect in December, is aimed at protecting children from online harm.

As Iran’s protests enter a third week, the country’s president blames foreign powers for the unrest, and warns it will retaliate if the US intervenes militarily.

The military-backed government is back in Khartoum after being driven out by its paramilitary rival.
Unrest in Iran has killed more than 500 people, a rights group said on Sunday, as Tehran threatened to target US military bases if President Donald Trump carries out threats to intervene on behalf of protesters.

The result marks the first time in 117 years that a side from outside the major national leagues has eliminated the reigning FA Cup holders.

Eight people were killed after a gas cylinder exploded at a house the morning after the wedding celebration.

Latin America’s left is in disarray after the seizure of Nicolas Maduro and the U.S.’s pledge to take over Venezuela’s oil industry. Many on the left are changing their rhetoric about President Trump.

NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Peter Krause of Boston College about the Trump Administration’s willingness to act unilaterally against other countries and what this means for international relations.