The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) welcomed the ruling issued yesterday by the French Court of Cassation in its favour.The ruling rejected the appe...

Toyota Libya announced yesterday that a graduation event was held at its Misrata Free Zone headquarters for eight new trainees - the sixth cohort of i...

Figures across Brazil's political spectrum have been linked to the scandal in the midst of a key election.

Taiwan’s Coast Guard used a water cannon to drive two Chinese fishing boats away from waters near the Dongsha Islands.

The diplomatic fallout comes as Ethiopian forces battle rebel fighters across its northern region.

A voter mobilisation campaign has registered huge numbers of young people but it is not clear who they are backing.

Israel's prime minister says the pilot who tried to take over the Flydubai plane clearly intended to "down the plane".

A pilot who stabbed another pilot on an Israel-bound plane is being investigated in Saudi Arabia, Benjamin Netanyahu says.

Lapid says young Israelis told him 'even babies' in Gaza should be killed There are "no innocent people" in Gaza and Israel should "also kill two-week-old babies" in the Palestinian enclave, Israel's former prime minister Yair Lapid has recounted young Israelis telling him. "I heard all the rhetoric of: 'they all need to be killed,' 'there are no innocent people'," Lapid said in an interview on Wednesday, describing "a furious and painful meeting with a group of really young people" he had recently met. The former prime minister, who is now part of the centrist-right wing alliance of the Together party, added that he asked them, "What about babies? They said: 'babies too, because eventually they'll grow up and become terrorists'," Lapid recounted, adding that they said it applies even to two-week-old babies. Read more: Lapid says young Israelis told him 'even babies' in Gaza should be killed Israelis protest outside the defence ministry in Tel Aviv, calling for action to secure the release of captives held in Gaza, 17 May 2025 (Jack Guez/AFP)

Iraq given US exemption for Iranian flights to and from holy city The United States has granted sanctions exemptions for some Iranian airlines to operate flights to Iraq's holy city of Najaf, the Iraqi prime minister's office said on Friday. It said Baghdad had secured "an agreement allowing Iranian airlines, with the exception of Mahan Air, to operate 40 flights daily to and from Najaf" , a city sacred to Shia Muslims. The US announced sweeping new sanctions targeting Iranian airlines last month as part of its efforts to pressure Iran's economy, with the two sides still to make peace in Washington's war on Tehran. Last week, Najaf airport suspended all Iranian flights in cooperation with the sanctions, leaving travellers scrambling for alternative routes.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will stand for re-election in Brazil on Sunday. At 80, the former steelworker hopes to capitalise on his popularity and economic successes to win a fourth term in office but is neck-and-neck in the polls with far-right rival Flavio Bolsonaro.

We sit down with David McAllister, the chair of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. He talks to us about the security threats facing Europe, and what defence gaps the EU urgently needs to close. For McAllister, the EU is "not at war with the Russian Federation, but we are no longer at peace with Russia". He also believes that the EU is not, as yet, capable of making sovereign decisions in certain areas of defence "because we are too dependent on US capabilities."

Lionel Messi returns to Argentina to participate in a farewell match with the national team against Benin. This match, to be held in Buenos Aires, will mark his final appearance for the team.

BUSAN, South Korea: A second attempt to guide a shark stranded in a canal in the South Korean port city of Busan back to the open sea ended without success on Friday, with the animal staying in the waterway into a third week. Rescuers, who had been using a net to try to coax it out, had to end the operation after a two hour chase due to the risk of their huge net getting caught on rocks. They now hope that the shark will eventually swim out to the open sea on its own, after leaving the net in

Yemen's Houthis and Saudi-backed forces fought over an area located not far from a waterway that is crucial to global energy flows, killing 80 combatants over the past day, sources on both sides told AFP on Friday

Nearly 20,000 newborns are affected every year with the inherited blood disorder which causes severe pain in patients.