World leaders, celebrities and royal enthusiasts from across the globe have descended upon London for Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III – the most important ceremonial event staged by Britain in a generation.

The president-designate of the upcoming UN climate talks, Sultan Al Jaber, has called on participants to drastically ramp up their use of renewable energy ahead of the key summit in the United Arab Emirates later this year.  

A European judicial team questioned Lebanon’s caretaker finance minister Youssef El Khalil on Friday in an investigation related to a corruption probe of the country’s Central Bank governor, officials said.

The French government sought to play down a fresh row with Italy over migration on Friday, saying Paris was not looking to “ostracise” its EU partner and its prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. 

The coronation of King Charles III – seven decades after that of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth – will be the first time most British people have seen the crowning of a new monarch.

60 people were arrested across Europe last year in a crackdown that retrieved over 11,000 trafficked artworks and artefacts including ancient books, sculptures and coins, Interpol said Thursday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called for the creation of a special tribunal separate from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the crime of aggression.

With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that humanity’s carbon pollution has the potential to turn oceans into a global warming “time bomb”.

USAID and the World Food Programme announced on Wednesday they were freezing food aid to the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia “until further notice”, after finding shipments were diverted to local markets.