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An explosion caused a residential building to collapse in the crowded tourist centre of Athens on Friday, injuring three people and damaging houses, shops and cars across a historic neighbourhood. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast in the two-storey building in Plaka near some of Athens’ most popular sites including the Acropolis and the Temple of Zeus, sending rocks and broken gl...
Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah was applauded at the UN General Assembly after his speech on climate crisis.
European government bond yields eased on Friday morning, pulling back from a brutal sell-off earlier in the week, even as US Treasury yields pushed to fresh multi-decade highs on Wednesday and Thursday, and mortgage rates in America hit 7%, their highest level since Donald Trump returned to office.
Pope Leo XIV has landed at Paris Orly Airport for the start of his four-day visit to France. A welcoming ceremony was held on the tarmac in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron, marking the beginning of a programme combining diplomatic meetings with major public events across Paris, Lourdes and Metz.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan at the White House on Thursday as part of a state visit dominated by pageantry. On AI, Xi said that “the right thing to do is to draw on each other’s strengths, not guard against each other”, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry. He also backed continued dialogue about...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to the US will conclude not at the diplomatic negotiating table, but in front of America’s founding documents. After morning tea in the White House Red Room, US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania will take Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan on a tour of the National Archives, the home of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other texts that es...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to the US will conclude not at the diplomatic negotiating table, but in front of America’s founding documents. After morning tea in the White House Red Room, US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania will take Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan on a tour of the National Archives, the home of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other texts that es...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to the US will conclude not at the diplomatic negotiating table, but in front of America’s founding documents. After morning tea in the White House Red Room, US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania will take Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan on a tour of the National Archives, the home of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other texts that es...
AI-enhanced images in real estate listings are emerging across Europe. The new EU AI Act aims to help transparency.
Catholic influencers gathered hundreds of young people for an evening of prayer at Paris's Saint-Sulpice church ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit, highlighting how social media is becoming a new tool for evangelisation. As youth baptisms rise in France, creators say their goal is to turn online engagement into real-life communities, while Church leaders warn that influencers themselves should not over...
Paris is making final preparations for Pope Leo XIV's first official visit to the French capital in 18 years, with volunteers welcoming crowds ahead of his four-day trip. His programme includes meetings with President Emmanuel Macron and UNESCO, a popemobile procession, a prayer service at Notre-Dame, a youth vigil at the Stade de France, and a mass at Place de la Concorde expected to draw up to o...
Pope Leo XIV's visit to France is forcing Emmanuel Macron into a delicate diplomatic balancing act. As both the head of the Catholic Church and the head of the Vatican City State, the pontiff requires the French president to navigate the country's secular traditions carefully. There will be no private meeting between the two leaders — officially because of the Pope's packed schedule — and Macron i...
France is sending military to protect key Yanbu oil terminal; Pakistan and Turkiye to hold military talks with Riyadh.
European countries have been on high alert for any Russian interference, with fears that Moscow could target Kyiv's Western backers as the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine drags on into its fifth year.
Nina Simone’s 650 sq ft childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina, has been restored after sitting vacant and severely decayed for more than 20 years. Bought for $95,000 in 2017, the three-room house underwent nearly $850,000 in rehabilitation. The restored home, which retains original features, is expected to open to the public in 2027.
Martin Lidegaard, Danish Minister for Business and Competitiveness, said his country, Greenland and the US are “very satisfied” with the agreement on Greenland.
At least three people have been injured after a building collapsed following a powerful explosion near the Acropolis in central Athens, officials have said.
James Copenhaver, one of three people shot during an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a campaign rally, has died.
Despite diplomatic niceties and gifts, little was shared on substantial issues separating the leaders.
Customers and jobs ‘top priority’ as company closes in on deals with Opus Broadband and investment group OctopusBusiness live – latest updatesTalkTalk is scrambling to secure its future amid the threat of administration, closing in on deals to sell its consumer and broadband arms as it seeks to save 900 jobs.The telecoms company said on Friday it is in the final stages of sealing deals to sell its...
Property developer-turned-president Donald Trump appeared to relish showing off the White House’s latest building works to Xi Jinping on Thursday, eager to give his Chinese counterpart a glimpse of his construction ambitions since they last met in China. In May, Trump was hosted at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, a sprawling complex that the US president compares with his planned White House b...
A major coal deal in Indonesia is set to secure a powerful new partner for one of the country’s biggest miners, even as the industry worries a delay in the government’s approval of production quotas could have a severe impact on the business outlook. Low Tuck Kwong and his daughter Elaine Low, the biggest shareholders of Bayan Resources, agreed on September 16 to sell a 30 per cent stake in Indone...
Investor appetite for hotel assets increased in Hong Kong and the wider Asia-Pacific region in the first half of the year as consumers showed growing eagerness to travel and constrained supply supported property values, according to CBRE. The region netted US$8 billion of investment in the period, up 21 per cent from a year earlier, with Japan, mainland China and South Korea attracting the most ac...
Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak has no money to pay the fine to secure his transfer to house arrest, his lawyers have said, as they question the delay in releasing the full details of the conditional pardon granted by Malaysia’s king last week. King Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar last Friday decreed that Najib would be allowed to serve out the remainder of his sentence at home, on condition that he p...
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a video of himself planting an olive tree alongside Palestinian families from Gaza.
Pope Leo XIV on Friday arrives in France for a four-day visit – his fifth Apostolic journey since becoming pontiff last year – during which he hopes to repair the Catholic Church’s standing after sexual abuse scandals while also addressing issues such as the need to regulate AI and laying out his vision for Europe’s future. FRANCE 24 guides you through his visit.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said Copenhaver had been "gravely wounded" in the shooting and that he had "died from complications stemming from those wounds."
As trade ties with the US continue to fray, Canada is seeking a new role and new partners in the increasingly fragmented global economy. Prime Minister Mark Carney has been courting more foreign investment as well as closer ties with the European Union and Asian economies.
The pope will deliver a landmark speech on AI development and discuss Europe’s futurePope Leo will visit France this weekend, the first papal state visit to the country in 18 years, beginning with Paris today.During the visit, Leo is expected to seek to repair the Catholic Church’s standing after abuse scandals in the country, as well as deliver a landmark speech on AI development at Unesco and ta...
