Rafael Tudares, the son-in-law of Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González, has been released from prison, his wife has said, more than a year after he was detained as part of a crackdown on Maduro government critics and their relatives. Mariana González said her husband had returned home after “380 days of unjust and arbitrary detention”….
Hugo BachegaMiddle East correspondent, Beirut AFP Syrian government forces advanced rapidly into north-eastern Syria in recent days President Ahmed al-Sharaa has made significant advances in his efforts to unify a deeply fractured Syria, reclaiming large swathes of territory in the north-east that had been under the control of a Kurdish-led militia alliance for more than…
Ugandan police have detained a lawmaker, and close ally of opposition leader Bobi Wine, for his alleged role in election-related violence last week. Muwanga Kivumbi, a deputy leader of Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP), is accused of organising attacks on a police station and a vote-tallying centre after their electoral loss, which the party denies….
Japan has suspended operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant, hours after its restart, its operator has said. An alarm sounded “during reactor-start-up procedures” at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa in Tokyo but the reactor remained “stable”, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) spokesperson Takashi Kobayashi said. Reactor number six restarted on Wednesday a day later than planned due…
EPA US President Donald Trump has announced that there is a “framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland”. The statement came as a surprise after days of mounting tensions, culminating with a threat to impose economic sanctions on eight close US allies which have opposed his plans to seize the semi-autonomous territory of…
Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Aleksandr Gusev/SOPA Images Ukraine’s Volodymr Zelensky arrived in Davos on Thursday ahead of his talks with President Donald Trump (file pic) US President Donald Trump will meet Volodymyr Zelensky at Davos on Thursday, after his envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism about finalising a deal to end the war in Ukraine. “I…
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said the UK will not yet be signing up to US President Donald Trump’s proposed Board of Peace over concerns about Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s possible participation. Cooper told the BBC the UK had been invited to join the board but “won’t be one of the signatories today” at a…
Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov captured breathtaking views of aurora lights over Earth, seen from the International Space Station. The lights were captured during one of the most powerful solar storms in over 20 years, according to the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The last solar radiation storm of comparable severity was recorded in October…
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Several people are missing after a landslide on Thursday at campsite in the New Zealand tourist hotspot of Mount Maunganui. An Australian tourist told local media he is “still shaking” after fleeing the landslide, and that it was the “scariest thing” he’s ever experienced. Rescuers are on site working to locate survivors. Follow the story…