The Israeli government on Sunday unanimously recognised the massacres of Armenians during World War I as genocide, a move widely seen as a rebuke to Turkey and a stark signal of the deepening rift between the two countries. 

French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes has now spent a year in detention in Algeria, prompting fresh calls from Reporters Without Borders and his family for his immediate release and a presidential pardon.

Tens of millions face a weekend of extreme temperatures in Europe as a deadly heatwave moves eastwards, with German forecasters warning that more records could be broken and eastern countries issuing a slew of red alerts for the coming days.

The UK interior ministry has announced it will create new legal routes for asylum seekers, including allowing community organisations to sponsor refugees based on a similar system in Canada.  

Lebanon, Israel and the United States on Friday signed a trilateral framework agreement aimed at paving the way for a peace deal between the two long-time Middle East adversaries.

The deliberate targeting of Palestinian children is central to a United Nations-mandated report’s conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The commission argues that children have not only been victims of the war, but have been targeted …

The Strait of Hormuz has reopened under a fragile United States-Iran deal, but it remains under close watch after maritime authorities warned of suspected and confirmed mines in the area. Former French Navy Admiral Éric Lavault – who headed France’s m…