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Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time after the country experienced record-breaking heat this spring. Insect enthusiast Bjorn Hjaltason encountered the mosquitoes over several nights last week while using wine-soaked ropes to observe moths, local media reported. Mr Hjaltason found two female mosquitoes and one male which were later confirmed to be […]

Tessa WongAsia Digital Reporter Provided by Kokila Annamalai Siti Amirah Mohamed Asrori, Kokila Annamalai and Mossammad Sobikun Nahar had been charged with organising an illegal procession A court in Singapore has acquitted three women who organised a walk to the presidential office to show support for the Palestinian cause. The women were prosecuted for organising […]

NurPhoto via Getty Images Ukraine has hit a Russian chemical plant with Storm Shadow missiles, its military said on Tuesday, referring to the UK-made long-range weapon. Calling the strike “a successful hit” that penetrated the Russian air defence system, Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces said they were still assessing the outcome of the […]

Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent EPA Trump and Putin’s planned talks on the near four-year war in Ukraine have been put on hold Reports of an impending US-Russia leadership summit have been greatly exaggerated, it seems. Just days after Donald Trump said he planned to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest – “within two weeks […]

Getty Images Sanae Takaichi is Japan’s first female prime minister Respected figure: Margaret Thatcher. Personal goal: To become Japan’s Iron Lady. It was only after two failed attempts that Sanae Takaichi finally achieved her long-held ambition. In a historic parliamentary vote on 21 October, the 64-year-old was elected Japan’s first female prime minister. She’s a […]

Shaimaa KhalilJapan correspondent Reuters Sanae Takaichi has made it to the top in a male-dominated country For many young girls in Japan today, the image of Sanae Takaichi taking the helm of power as the country’s first ever female leader is powerful and formative. It means a patriarchal society and a political system that has […]

Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison, where he will occupy a small […]

A man who shot and seriously injured the Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in an attack last year has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after being found guilty of terrorism. Juraj Cintula, a 72-year-old pensioner, fired five shots at the prime minister in May 2024 when he was on a visit to Handlova, […]

The small Central American nation of Belize has signed an agreement with Washington to act as a “safe third country” for migrants as they seek asylum in the United States. Belize PM John Antonio Briceño said the deal – which must be approved by the Belize Senate – will mean that migrants deported from the […]

A Chinese-born woman has been charged for the theft of six gold nuggets worth about 1.5 million euros ($1.75m; £1.3m) from the Museum of Natural History in Paris last month, French prosecutors have said. The woman was arrested in Barcelona trying to dispose of some melted gold, according to officials, and is being held in […]