The United Kingdom’s first national election in five years is shaping up as a battle for the country’s soul, with some saying it poses an existential threat to the governing Conservative Party, which has been in power since 2010.The center-right Conservatives took power during the depths of the global financial…

Egypt said Friday it has agreed to send U.N. humanitarian aid trucks through Israel’s main crossing into Gaza, but it remained unclear if they will be able to enter the territory as fighting raged in the southern city of Rafah amid Israel’s escalating offensive there.Meanwhile, the bodies of three more…

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was charged Friday in a long-running witness tampering investigation.Uribe was formally charged with witness tampering and bribery for his efforts to discredit a political opponent who was digging into Uribe’s family ties to right-wing paramilitary groups. If convicted, Uribe faces up to 12 years in…

The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, was reinstalled atop the cathedral’s framework Friday after a meticulous restoration by artistic ironworkers from Normandy.The imposing cross, spanning 12 meters and weighing 1.5 tons, is the only element of the choir roof that resisted…

A Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison Friday for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case in Europe.The trial focused on the officials’ role in the alleged arrest, torture…

Nearly 140 migrants have reached Greek shores over the past 24 hours, making the dangerous sea voyage across the Mediterranean Sea, authorities said Friday. One man, who had set off from North Africa, drowned off the southern island of Crete.Greece, along with Spain and Italy, is a key entry point…

Four Russian sources said that the country’s President Vladimir Putin is ready for a ceasefire to halt the war in Ukraine, but he is also prepared to fight on ‘for as long as it takes.’Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia did not want ‘eternal war.’However, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz waded into the European election campaign on Friday by warning that the next president of the European Commission should not seek support from far-right parties hoping to make big gains in next month’s vote.Left-leaning parties across Europe have been heaping pressure on their mainstream conservative and…

German authorities arrested two men suspected of plotting a knife attack on worshipers at a synagogue in Heidelberg.The suspects, aged 24 and 18, were detained during separate police operations in Baden-Wuerttemberg earlier this month.The suspects planned to kill worshipers at the synagogue and then be shot by police, according to…

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