Macron gives ‘full support’ to embattled PM Bayrou ahead of risky confidence vote

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou leaves the weekly cabinet meeting at the French Presidential Palace in Paris, August 27, 2025. ABDUL SABOOR / REUTERS President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, August 27, gave... Read more »

Denmark apologizes for Greenland forced contraception campaign

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (right) and Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen (left) at Marienborg, Lyngby-Taarbaek, Denmark, April 27, 2025. MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN / VIA REUTERS Denmark’s prime minister on Wednesday, August... Read more »

Jair Bolsonaro placed under heightened police surveillance in Brazil ahead of his trial

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro at his home while under house arrest, in Brasilia, Brazil, August 14, 2025. ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS A Brazilian judge on Tuesday, August 26, declared far-right ex-president... Read more »

France returns colonial-era human remains to Madagascar

France’s Minister of Culture Rachida Dati (left) flanked by her Madagascar counterpart Volamiranty Donna Mara sign an agreement during a ceremony for the restitution of three Sakalava skulls to Madagascar, at the... Read more »

Australia expels Iranian ambassador over antisemitic arson attacks

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong looks on, during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, August 26, 2025. LUKAS COCH / VIA REUTERS Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador on Tuesday,... Read more »

Trump moves to oust Fed governor over mortgage fraud allegations

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook attends the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s 2025 Jackson Hole economic symposium, “Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy” in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August... Read more »

Venus Williams, 45, loses her first round; The buzz around Carlos Alcaraz’s new cut

Venus Williams reacts against Karolina Muchova during the first round of the US Open, on August 25, 2025, in New York City. ISHIKA SAMANT / AFP Venus Williams battled bravely before bowing... Read more »

Desperation and anger grow in France’s crowded migrant camps

Dunkirk: The police vans speed along a road on the edge of Loon-Plage, a small town in France, toward a camp of asylum seekers on a dusty strip of land near a... Read more »

Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, accusing them of anticompetitive practices

Elon Musk attends the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. POOL / VIA REUTERS Elon Musk targeted Apple and OpenAI in an... Read more »

US backs ambassador to France in antisemitism row

Charles Kushner, US ambassador to France, during a diplomatic meeting in the White House, Washington DC, March 25, 2025. MANDEL NGAN / AFP A diplomatic row between the United States and France... Read more »