Hôtel de Ville, the city hall of Limoges in central France, was built by architect Charles-Alfred Leclerc in 1883. A historically protected building of Limousin granite and Poitou limestone, adorned by statues
Morocco’s efforts to secure international backing for its proposed autonomy plan for Western Sahara face a renewed obstacle at the United Nations, where Secretary-General António Guterres has insisted that any future arrangement
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Independent artificial intelligence safety evaluators are gaining prominence as leading technology companies face growing pressure to demonstrate that their increasingly powerful models can be developed safely. Anthropic and OpenAI have pledged to
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The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has warned that ageing oil tankers used to transport Russian petroleum could cause a major environmental disaster along European coastlines, describing the vessels as
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At least 72 workers have been killed in an airstrike on a gold mine near the disputed border between Sudan and Egypt, according to Sudanese human rights activists. The organisation Emergency Lawyers
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The National Shoora Council (NSC) has urged Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to Iranian vessels stranded south of Galle within Sri Lanka’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ),
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Brazil’s position is decisive. As Latin America’s largest economy, a founding BRICS member, and a leading participant in Mercosur, it possesses industrial, scientific, and political capacities that could strengthen independent development across
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The Riyadh airport attacks expose a fundamental asymmetry in the international legal order. The international community has developed an elaborate body of law governing civil aviation, the conduct of hostilities and the
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The confrontation between Washington and Moscow during the final years of the Cold War was not confined to nuclear weapons, military strategy and competing visions of global security. Newly declassified records published
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The allegations against former BND chief August Hanning, alongside a former CIA official’s guilty plea in a major fraud case, expose the fragile boundary between public service and private abuse. As intelligence
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Fifteen former members of Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) and intelligence officers have broken decades of silence to describe covert operations against the Irish Republican Army (IRA), offering first-hand accounts of surveillance,
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Ecuadorian newspaper Expreso has ended its print edition after 53 years, with its publisher blaming months of alleged government pressure for a financial crisis that has threatened the survival of the publication.
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Ukrainian drones struck oil facilities in Novoshakhtinsk, in Russia’s Rostov region, overnight, hitting a major fuel terminal that supplies Russian military operations in the Donbas region and serves as an important route
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At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, according to three anonymous sources cited by Reuters and The New
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Europe faces an unprecedented combination of economic, military and political challenges, according to British historian and journalist Timothy Garton Ash, who warns that the continent must strengthen its unity and reduce its
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Nuclear war, the malicious use of artificial intelligence and climate change are among the major threats that could endanger humanity’s future, according to a commission of 37 experts whose assessment identifies 17
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