Flydubai co-pilot planned to crash plane into airport, reports suggest
Questions are also being asked about major security lapses, including how the attacker was recruited by flydubai and given clearance to fly a plane filled with Israelis to Tel Aviv. Regional officials said the co-pilot was barred from flying by…
ICC unseals arrest warrants for Taliban education ministers
The International Criminal Court on Monday unsealed arrest warrants for two Afghan education ministers accused of committing crimes against humanity through the Taliban government’s restrictions on women and girls. The warrants, for Habibullah…
Yemeni military says it has retaken Mokha and ‘secured’ Red Sea waterway
On Sunday, the head of Yemen’s internationally recognised Presidential Leadership Council announced the beginning of an offensive, dubbed Operation Yemen Dawn, aimed at retaking all territory held by the Houthis. Rashad al-Alimi insisted that all…
France, Germany seek new EU rapid response tool against trade threats
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have urged the European Union to develop a new legal arsenal to respond faster to any potential trade war with China, according to a letter seen by AFP on Monday. While it stopped…
Teenager’s hand blown off during confrontation between France school protesters and riot police
A 15-year-old boy’s hand was blown off during a confrontation between police and demonstrators near a school in France, an official has said, as student protests continue across the country. The «very serious incident» happened in the northern city…
ISIS suspects face ‘outsourced’ justice in Iraq as HRW warns of ‘collective global detention crisis’
Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Letta Tayler, Senior Counterterrorism Advisor at Human Rights Watch. She warns of the detention of suspected Islamic State members transferred from northeast Syria to Iraq as part of a much wider «global detention…
Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools months after blacklisting company, BBC told
Sources familiar with the way the technology is used said analysts and other defence officials rely on Maven to access and organise visual data, including satellite imagery and drone footage. The data was then fed into Claude and other large language…
How Lula’s successes in Brazil may have paved the way for his presidential defeat
As right-wing governments backed by Washington rise to power across Latin America, Brazil now looks like it will be the next domino to fall. Far-right Senator Flavio Bolsonaro led the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, with…
Zelensky condemns ‘horrific’ Russian strike on boat carrying corn in Black Sea
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned a «horrific» Russian attack on a vessel carrying corn in the Black Sea. The ship’s captain was killed in the strike involving two drones, Zelensky said, and another sailor was unaccounted…
Macron slams Russia’s ‘irresponsible’ strikes on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday condemned Russia ramping up strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, calling it «irresponsible» after speaking with Ukraine‘s Volodymyr Zelensky on ways to bolster support for Kyiv. Russia «has made…