The United Kingdom and the European Union have agreed to a landmark deal aimed at “resetting” their post-Brexit relationship, easing restrictions on travel and work for hundreds of millions of people on the continent. The pact, agreed at a summit in London on Monday, followed months of negotiations between Downing…

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon,” starring Steve McQueen. Speaking on Sunday during a visit to French Guiana, a French territory that borders Suriname and Brazil,…

The first flight carrying migrants who chose to self-deport from the United States as part of a new Department of Homeland Security initiative offering free flights and $1,000 stipends has landed in Honduras. A group of 38 Hondurans arrived at Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport on Monday afternoon after applying…

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent attorney critical of President Nayib Bukele, in a move criticized by rights groups who say it reflects an increasing trend of “authoritarianism” in the country. Ruth Eleonora López, the head of the Anti-Corruption and Justice Unit of the rights organization Cristosal, is…

British police arrested a third man in an investigation into a series of arson attacks in north London, including a fire at a house belonging to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. A 34-year-old man was arrested on Monday morning in Chelsea, southwest London, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with…

“The root causes of the conflict.” These were startling words from a man purportedly on the path to peace. But it is the nub of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position of what must be solved for peace, after two weeks, or three months, depending on how you count, of mounting…

Ukraine and Russia accused each other of launching attack drones on one another overnight, hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with his US counterpart Donald Trump – and again refused an immediate ceasefire. Russia launched 108 Shahed drones and “various types of decoy drones,” Ukraine’s Air Force…

Salvage crews have recovered the boom from the $40 million Bayesian luxury yacht, which sank off the coast of Sicily in August 2024, killing seven people, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. The boom, which was connected to the 72-meter (236-foot) mast — one of…

Think of Japan’s famed yakuza gangs and you might think of heavily tattooed men getting into bloody fights – the stuff of action films and video games. But last week four men were arrested in Tokyo for a more mundane crime – operating a yakuza office too close to a…