EU prepares to clash with US again over shipping carbon levy
BRUSSELS/LONDON, April 24 – European Union countries agreed on Friday to keep pushing for a global price on shipping’s CO2 emissions in U.N. talks next week, setting up another potential…
Putin’s approval rating falls to lowest since before Ukraine war, state pollster says
MOSCOW, April 24 – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has fallen for a seventh week in a row to 65.6%, its lowest level since the invasion of Ukraine in…
Suspected Nazi-looted Stradivarius reappears in France, says expert
Nazi soldiers stole the violin – now worth $13 million – from a museum in Warsaw in 1944. Read More
War, drought, aid shortfall to fuel hunger in 2026, global report says
Acute hunger had doubled over the past decade, with two famines declared in 2025 for the first time in the report’s history. Read More
EU to prepare blueprint for mutual assistance pact, amid NATO doubts
NICOSIA, April 24 – EU leaders have asked officials to prepare a blueprint for how the bloc’s previously obscure mutual assistance clause would work, host Cyprus said at a summit…
Pakistan military kills 22 in northwest clashes, child dead in crossfire
The clash took place on April 21 in Khyber district near the border with Afghanistan. Read More
China poised to send pandas to US before Trump’s planned visit
China lends the animals out to zoos around the world as part of its so-called Panda Diplomacy. Read More
Russian attack on Ukraine’s Odesa kills married couple, officials say
April 24 – A Russian drone attack overnight on Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa killed an elderly married couple and wounded more than a dozen others, Ukrainian officials said on…
US charges two Chinese nationals over Myanmar crypto scam hub
They allegedly oversaw “pig-butchering scams”, in which victims are lured into online relationships. Read More
Woman, her 5 children released from longest ICE detention of a family under Trump
WASHINGTON, April 23 – A woman and her five children, whose immigration detention of over 10 months marked the longest family detention under President Donald Trump’s administration, were released on…