Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado to emerge from hiding to visit Oslo
María Corina Machado is expected in Oslo within hours, her daughter confirmed. It is a risky move for the Nobel laureate, who was banned from leaving Venezuela.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado to emerge from hiding to visit Oslo
María Corina Machado is expected in Oslo within hours, her daughter confirmed. It is a risky move for the Nobel laureate, who was banned from leaving Venezuela.
Continue ReadingTourists must set their social media to public
Dec 10, 2025, 2:24 p.mDec 10, 2025, 3:11 p.m The US Border Patrol wants to require tourists to disclose their social media accounts when entering the US. Entrants would have to make their posts on social networks from the last five years available to border officials, according to a proposed change presented by the border […]
Continue ReadingUNESCO recognizes ‘Italian cooking’ as intangible world heritage
Italian cooking joins French gastronomy and Mexican cuisine on UNESCO’s list of global cultural gems, setting off celebration and snickering.
Continue ReadingMusk says Doge was ‘somewhat successful’ but he wouldn’t do it again
Elon Musk says he would not lead the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) if he had his time again, but has maintained that its tumultuous efforts to shrink the size of the US government under President Donald Trump was “a little bit successful”. The billionaire boss of Tesla and SpaceX gave his reflections during a […]
Continue ReadingSouth Korea protests Chinese and Russian warplanes in its airspace
South Korea has lodged a complaint with the Chinese and Russian defence attaches based in the country, a day after their warplanes entered its air defence zone. Seoul said it sent up fighter jets to “take tactical measures in preparation for any emergencies” after seven Russian and two Chinese military aircraft “briefly entered” the zone […]
Continue ReadingUkraine ‘ready for elections’ if partners guarantee security, Zelensky says
Ukraine is “ready for elections”, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, after US President Donald Trump repeated claims Kyiv was “using war” to avoid holding them. Zelensky’s five-year term as president was due to end in May 2024, but elections have been suspended in Ukraine since martial law was declared after Russia’s invasion. Speaking to reporters […]
Continue ReadingThe US pounds the European Union in sharpest takedown yet as bloc mulls future of alliance
It’s not a beating, it’s a pounding. That’s how one European diplomat described a week-long political hammering from the Trump administration directed straight at the European Union. First, a US government National Security Strategy warned that the bloc needs to either reverse course on a range of issues or risk “civilizational erasure”, igniting a week […]
Continue ReadingFrench far-right leader tells BBC he shares US warnings on Europe ‘for most part’
The leader of France’s far-right National Rally (RN) Jordan Bardella has welcomed “for the most part” concerns raised about Europe in US President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy. Last week, the White House published a document which outlined Trump’s vision of the world and the state of the European continent, which many have characterised […]
Continue ReadingGermany developing plans to ready airspace in case it needs to defend itself, air traffic boss says
Germany is drawing up plans to quickly ready its airspace if the country needs to defend itself, the air navigation service provider told Euronews, warning that airlines and airports remain too naive about the possibility of such an event. “We are currently working with the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Transport on a […]
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