Senegal president backs new anti-LGBT law banning ‘promotion’
DAKAR, March 31 – Senegal’s president has approved a bill doubling the maximum prison term for same-sex sexual acts to 10 years and criminalising any efforts to promote homosexuality, allowing…
Hijacked car driven to Northern Irish police station contained improvised bomb, police say
BELFAST, March 31 – Irish nationalist militants were likely behind the hijacking and placing of an improvised explosive device in a food delivery vehicle that was ordered to drive to…
King Charles to pay state visit to US as UK seeks to mollify Trump
LONDON, March 31 – King Charles will make a state visit to the United States in late April, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday, a high-profile trip that the British government…
Orphaned by Israeli strike, Syrian girl in Beirut wants to return to friends and school
BEIRUT, March 31 – A month ago, Nariman al-Issa’s life was like any 12-year-old’s: she played with toys and rode her bicycle in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Her childhood was turned…
US counterterror officials plan antifa summit, sources say
WASHINGTON, March 31 – The Trump administration is organizing an international summit focused on countering the left-wing movement antifa and other groups, three sources familiar with the matter said, an…
EU tells members to prepare for ‘prolonged disruption’ to energy markets from Iran war
BRUSSELS, March 31 – European Union governments should prepare for a “prolonged disruption” to energy markets as a result of the Iran war, the bloc’s energy chief has told countries’…
Estonia detects air threat overnight, defence forces say
COPENHAGEN, March 31 – Estonia and Latvia both detected foreign drone activity near their borders with Russia overnight, their militaries said, in the latest airspace incidents to unsettle NATO’s eastern…
With US aid slashed, Nigerian HIV volunteers went door‑to‑door to keep patients alive
MAKURDI, Nigeria, March 31 – For several months last year, Josephine Angev walked the dusty village paths of Nigeria’s Benue State with a mission – to help people living with…
U.S. conservatives watch nervously as Orban faces tough test in Hungary vote
BUDAPEST, March 31 – U.S. conservatives have long pointed to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as proof that a Western leader can crack down on immigration, defy global institutions and…
Soaring fuel prices drive German far-right calls for a turn back to Russia
BERLIN, March 31 – Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party has used surging energy prices to revive its longstanding call for Berlin to turn once more to Russia for cheap…