Elon Musk’s gesture at Trump rally draws scrutiny

The parents of a teenage boy who killed nine children and a security guard in a mass shooting at a school in Serbia last year have been jailed. In the May 2023 attack, the then 13-year-old killed nine children and a security guard at Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school in Belgrade….

As French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Mayotte to survey the damage caused by Cyclone Chido, the BBC’s Mayeni Jones says the devastation wrought by the storm is immediately visible to visitors. President Macron has pledged his support to the people of Mayotte – but many residents are still waiting…

The fall of Bashar al-Assad was unthinkable just a week ago, when rebels started their astonishing campaign from their base in Idlib, in Syria’s north-west. Assad came to power in 2000 after the death of his father Hafez, who ruled the country for 29 years – and very much like…

Diplomats and security policy advisers from more than 40 countries had “an extremely honest, open conversation” on key principles that Kyiv wants to be the basis for peace, Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak said of talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that ended Sunday. Yermak said different viewpoints emerged but that…

As Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday fulfills a historic meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the specter of strained Sino-U.S. relations is gripping security experts in a way that might not seem immediately obvious. For context, when former U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Tsai in Taipei last year,…