Category: World

Carlos Frate, 41, a former Maui Police Department officer, was sentenced today to 65 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for using unreasonable force against an arrestee. Frate previously pled guilty in August 2025 to one count of deprivation of rights under color of law. Frate admitted that on Jan. 6, […]

Around 44% of EU homes have at least one pet, of which over 90% are cats or dogs. While we’ve been bringing more and more pets into our lives in recent decades, the trend really shot up during the COVID pandemic. Europe’s pet population rose by an estimated 11% in 2022 to reach 340 million […]

UK food and farming take centre stage this week after the first tariff‑free shipment of British beef arrived in the US, alongside the launch of the UK’s first dedicated agri‑food trade mission to Washington DC. The trade mission will build on a milestone of the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal, where both countries agreed to implement […]

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, Iranian state media reported. As one of Iran’s longest-serving leaders, Khamenei was almost as ubiquitous in Iranian society as his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. And despite […]

The Commission will proceed with the provisional application of the EU-Mercosur agreement, as authorized by the European Council in January. It will now continue to work closely with all EU institutions, Member States and stakeholders to ensure a full conclusion in line with the EU Treaties. Source link This article was originally published on https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_500. […]

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) was introduced in 2000 as the cornerstone of US development-oriented trade policy towards sub-Saharan Africa. It was designed to grant eligible countries duty-free access to the US market. In February 2026, President Donald Trump signed a one-year extension after the programme lapsed in September 2025. Yet the programme’s […]

A new study, published today in the Science Journal, reveals that the answer is in the genes. Early mammalian ancestors were nocturnal, sleeping during the day while the dinosaurs dominated the land. However some mammalian lineages, including human ancestors, independently transitioned to diurnality (active during the day). Cellular response How this happened has been a […]

The US and Israel have launched extensive, coordinated attacks on numerous targets across Iran, prompting retaliatory strikes in the region. Donald Trump neither tried to obtain Congressional approval, nor did he pursue a United Nations security council resolution ahead of these actions. And the attack has come in the middle of talks between Tehran and […]

Colleagues, this is a fragile moment for the Middle East.   The United Kingdom played no role in the strikes against Iran.   But we are under no illusion about the nature of the Iranian regime.   The Iranian regime has murdered thousands of its own people simply for exercising their fundamental rights and freedoms.   Iran has repeatedly […]

US and Iranian negotiators met in Geneva earlier this week in what mediators described as the most serious and constructive talks in years. Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, spoke publicly of “unprecedented openness,” signalling that both sides were exploring creative formulations rather than repeating entrenched positions. Discussions showed flexibility on nuclear limits and sanctions relief, […]