An appeals court hearing this week will decide whether to overturn a legal ruling that has banned her from running for France’s presidency for five years

A popular backlash against data centres is dividing the Republican party ahead of critical midterm elections

Telenor is being sued by customers for sharing details with the military junta, leading to persecution of activists like hip-hop star Phyo Zeya Thaw

Ten years on, respondents say Brexit was damaging for Britain – and the EU is a better ally than the US

MoD’s ‘Project Brakestop’ initiative will see British firms produce weapons without US components that are cheaper and can strike deeper inside Russia

Researchers warn that funding cuts have left the central African country vulnerable to the deadly virus and say a vaccine is potentially just months away

Like the Irish author, the Israeli founders of November Books have vowed to comply with a cultural boycott over their country’s assault on Palestinians

María Fernanda Espinosa is among five candidates vying to succeed António Guterres and make the organisation relevant again

Issues on the table include global trade, Iran, and the future of Taiwan

From Iran to Israel, countries that are otherwise hostile to journalists have been welcoming social media stars with open arms

Donald Trump has dragged protesters into a vortex of online misinformation

The search engine containing 12m party membership cards shatters the illusion that few ancestors were active supporters of Hitler

The French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri has petitioned French authorities to investigate the Israeli bombing that killed his parents in 2024

Viktor Orbán is facing the fight of his political life – and his hopes of winning a fifth term appear to be fading as his pro-EU rival surges

RAF veteran says the US pilot missing in Iran will find evading the enemy even more difficult than sticking his landing

As the US president ups the ante, allies discuss using minesweepers to clear the strait and Tehran imposes new transit fees on shipping

The Iranian regime purports to be avenging the financier’s victims in its latest skirmish with the US, but the use of artificial intelligence further muddies the water between fact and fiction

If the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened within weeks, the disruption could hit harvests beyond this year and leave hundreds of millions at risk of acute food insecurity

Authorities say the money-making scheme shared sensitive information with enemy agents. Much of that information was fake

The US president’s claims echo the Bush administration’s baseless case for weapons of mass destruction allegedly held by Iraq