Albanian police fired tear gas and water cannon in Tirana on Sunday as violent anti-government protests entered their sixth day. Prime Minister Edi Rama refused to resign. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the education ministry, chanting “Rama, resign” over poor university conditions, high tuition fees and alleged corruption. The unrest has escalated in recent days.
Imagine opening your freezer to find everything melted. Now imagine that happening across hundreds of supermarkets because hackers turned up the temperature remotely. French retailers faced that nightmare overnight as a large-scale cyberattack pushed some refrigerators and freezers to 50°C (122°F), spoiling food and reportedly causing fires. Carrefour said 80 stores were affected, while Intermarche’s
A year-long dispute over Greenland has taken a dramatic turn. The US, Denmark and Greenland signing a new defence agreement that will allow Washington to establish two additional military areas in the Arctic territory. The deal permits US facilities at Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland and Mestersvig in the east. It also allows Washington to expand
Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was found guilty of war crimes committed during Kosovo’s 1998-99 conflict with Serbia. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague convicted Thaci of murder, torture and illegal detention. These crimes were linked to crimes against people accused of opposing the Kosovo
A deadly Russian drone attack on a shopping centre in Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih has left at least 16 people dead and 130 injured. Rescuers are working through the night to find survivors. Why was the scene so dangerous? Ukrainian officials say the mall was struck twice. The second drone hit while emergency workers were responding
After months of political wrangling, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche has narrowly won Senate confirmation. He is now the United States’ top law enforcement official. Blanche secured the attorney general post in a 50-49 vote, with Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joining Democrats in opposition. The decisive vote came from Louisiana Republican
What if the biggest cybersecurity threat wasn’t a hacker—but the AI built to stop one? That’s the unsettling question after Anthropic revealed that its Claude AI models breached the systems of three organisations during internal security testing. The company said the incidents happened after a configuration mistake. It accidentally gave the models internet access, despite
The US government says it’s recovering billions from healthcare fraud—but is the crackdown really accelerating? A new federal watchdog report paints a more complicated picture. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) said it generated $5.56 billion in expected recoveries and projected savings over six months. It claimed it returned
A family day out at a zoo turned into a nightmare. When a three-year-old boy was left fighting for his life after ending up inside a crocodile enclosure in eastern England. How such a horrifying incident unfolded is now at the centre of a major police investigation. Emergency services rushed to Johnson’s of Old Hurst,
France’s political stage just got a lot more crowded — and a lot more intense. Gabriel Attal, once the country’s youngest-ever prime minister, has officially thrown his hat into the ring for the 2027 presidential race. Declaring his candidacy in a rural French village under the blazing sun of Mur de Barrez. His message? He’s
A calm morning off Western Australia’s coast turned tragic in seconds. Raising once again the uneasy question swimmers and surfers always ask: how safe are these waters, really? A 38-year-old man has been killed after being attacked by a roughly 13-foot (4-metre) shark near Horseshoe Reef, north-west of Rottnest Island, close to Perth. Police say
What if an entire mountainside suddenly collapsed into the sea—what kind of wave would that create? In Tracy Arm Fjord, the answer was terrifying: a nearly 500-metre “megatsunami,” the second tallest ever recorded. It happened fast. In under a minute, around 64 million cubic metres of rock—think 24 Great Pyramids—plunged into the water. The result?
