26/01/2024 1:01 - William Burns, the C.I.A. director, planned to meet Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials in Europe to try to secure a deal to release the Hamas hostages and a pause in the combat. ...
26/01/2024 1:01 - The Hungarian leader, Viktor Orban, invited his Swedish counterpart to Budapest for talks. Hungary is the last country to vote to accept Sweden’s bid to join NATO after Turkey’s Parliament did so this week. ...
26/01/2024 0:01 - The Constitutional Council, which reviews laws to ensure that they conform to the Constitution, struck down many measures that President Emmanuel Macron’s government had added under right-wing pressure. ...
25/01/2024 23:01 - Norway’s higher education minister, Sandra Borch, resigned after admitting she “took text from other assignments without stating the sources,” in her master’s thesis. ...
25/01/2024 22:01 - Letter volumes have halved since 2011. Without significant changes, the beleaguered Royal Mail services will become “out of date,” according to a report. ...
25/01/2024 22:01 - Activists fear that one man’s sudden admission that he lit a crowded building ablaze to cover up a murder will let officials off the hook for failing to correct unsafe conditions there. ...
25/01/2024 21:01 - A shift by Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, toward open hostility against South Korea is alarming but does not indicate he is about to start a full-scale war, officials say. ...
25/01/2024 20:01 - In a recording that aired on Israeli television, a voice that appears to be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s called Qatar’s role as a mediator “problematic” because of its relationship to Hamas. ...