ICC prosecutor Karim Khan has been suspended following sexual misconduct allegations made by a junior staff member, plunging the court into one of its worst institutional crises. Khan denies all wrongdoing as a UN investigation presses forward.
A delegation from the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has wrapped up a closely watched mission to Beijing. The visit tackled some of the thorniest issues in EU-China relations head-on.
Israeli strikes killed at least 74 Palestinians in 48 hours as the UN condemned the violence and settler attacks surged across the West Bank. Aid agencies say they’re running out of time and access to help those caught in the middle.
Africa’s camels — built for desert survival — are now collapsing under extreme heat that herders say is unlike anything they’ve witnessed before. From Somalia to Mali, rising temperatures are threatening the animals and the millions of people who depend on them.
Ukraine’s new army chief Mykhailo Drapaty won cautious public support on Wednesday, but protests demanding the return of fired defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov show no sign of fading. The demonstrations are the largest war-related unrest Ukraine has seen since Russia’s 2022 invasion.
President Trump announced 100% tariffs on imported generic pharmaceutical drugs, targeting a sector that supplies 90% of US prescriptions. The move, set for August 2028, is already drawing fierce industry pushback over patient costs.
Iran’s IRGC claims it fired 14 cruise missiles at Amazon’s main data centre in Bahrain and struck US air defence systems. Bahraini, American and Amazon officials have all stayed silent.
Europe’s carbon pricing debate has fractured into five rival political blocs, each with competing demands that threaten to reshape the EU’s emissions trading system. The outcome will determine whether Europe’s main climate tool survives intact or gets diluted beyond recognition.
Mary Honeyball, who served as a Labour MEP for London for nearly two decades, says Andy Burnham brings something British politics has been missing for years. She calls it, simply, optimism.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed to have destroyed a US radar system in Kuwait as explosions lit up the skies over Bahrain’s capital Monday night. Gulf air defenses scrambled across the region in one of the most dramatic escalations in months.
