The alleged leaders of a suspected far-right plot to topple the German government went on trial on Tuesday, opening the most prominent proceedings in a case that shocked the country in late 2022.Nine defendants faced judges at a special warehouse-like courthouse built on the outskirts of Frankfurt to accommodate the…

French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia, signaling confidence that security measures are controlling the unrest.Government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot announced the trip, which required a change in Macron’s schedule.Macron will travel to New Caledonia instead of Normandy, following a week of deadly violence that resulted…

Australia and New Zealand have sent planes to evacuate citizens stranded in violence-hit New Caledonia.Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong confirmed clearance from French authorities for two evacuation flights from the archipelago.A Royal Australian Air Force C-130 Hercules landed in Noumea, the capital, with a capacity to carry 124 passengers.Australia and…

India’s anti-terror police have arrested four Sri Lankan nationals in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad for suspected links to the Islamic State, police said on Monday.The arrests were made late on Sunday at the city’s airport following a tip-off, said Vikas Sahay, the top police officer in Gujarat state…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the International Criminal Court’s decision to pursue arrest warrants against him and his defense minister are the latest examples of “what the new antisemitism looks like.” Netanyahu is speaking out for the first time Monday after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said his office has “reasonable…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may appeal an extradition order to the U.S. on espionage charges for publishing classified U.S. military documents, the British High Court ruled Monday.Judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson ruled in favor of Assange after his lawyers successfully argued that the U.S. government’s assurances that he would…

Haiti’s main international airport reopened Monday for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it to all traffic in early March.The reopening of the Toussaint-Louverture airport in the capital of Port-au-Prince is expected to help ease a critical shortage of medications and…

South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence, following up on an inaugural AI safety meeting in Britain last year that drew a diverse crowd of tech luminaries, researchers and officials.The gathering in Seoul aims to build on work started at…

Violence intensified in southwestern Colombia on Monday when a bomb blast injured six people in the city of Jamundi and an attack by insurgents on a police station in the rural town of Morales left at least two officers dead, according to police.Colombia’s government attributed the attacks to the FARC-EMC…

The Netherlands-based International Criminal Court on Monday exposed itself as a deeply antisemitic and politicized institution that ignores facts and jurisdiction to conduct lawfare against democracies that defend themselves against terrorism.American policy should now turn toward pressuring allies to defund this kangaroo court and imposing financial sanctions to grind its…