The EU yesterday wielded a powerful new digital law to press TikTok and seven other platforms on the AI risks for upcoming elections in the 27-nation bloc, including from deepfakes.

Russia yesterday congratulated Pope Francis on 11 years in office, hailing his support for “humanism and peace” after the pontiff caused outrage by urging Ukraine to “raise the white flag”.

The European Parliament yesterday gave final approval to the world’s most far-reaching rules to govern artificial intelligence, including powerful systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria will visit Bangladesh from March 18 to 21 to get a glimpse of the country’s development journey as well as to study the progress and ongoing challenges in the implementation of the SDGs.

President Vladimir Putin yesterday told the West that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine, it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict.

Covid-19 caused the average life expectancy of people worldwide to fall by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic, a major study said yesterday. 

Europe could suffer “catastrophic” consequences from climate change if it fails to take urgent and decisive action to adapt to risks, a new EU analysis warned yesterday.

Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov, who on Sunday won the first Academy Award for his country for the “20 Days in Mariupol” documentary about the Russian siege of the port city, said he would rather have no Oscar and no war waged against his country.

President Vladimir Putin’s foreign intelligence service yesterday accused the United States of trying to meddle in Russia’s presidential election and said that Washington even had plans to launch a cyberattack on the online voting system.

Officers arrested a man who crashed a car into the gates of London’s Buckingham Palace over the weekend, police said yesterday.

On February 26, one of Russia’s longest-serving human rights activists stood up at the end of his trial in a Moscow court and offered his uncensored verdict on Russian democracy.

Portugal’s criminal police agency PJ said yesterday it arrested a member of Italy’s Camorra crime group who has been on the

World food prices dropped for the seventh month in a row February as falling cereal prices outweighed more costly sugar and meat, the Food and Agricultural Organization said yesterday.

High oil prices, sanctions evasion and state investment are providing Russia with enough resources to fight on in Ukraine at the current intensity for at least two more years, Lithuanian intelligence agencies said in a report yesterday.

Sweden yesterday became the 32nd member of Nato in the shadow of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, turning the page on two centuries of non-alignment and capping two years of torturous diplomacy.   

A group of United Nations experts yesterday urged Britain to repatriate a woman stripped of her citizenship after leaving the country aged 15 to marry an Islamic State fighter.

At least 8,565 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2023, making it the deadliest year since records began a decade ago, the UN’s International Organization for Migration said yesterday.

Iran executed at least 834 people last year, the highest number since 2015, as capital punishment in the Islamic republic surged to a “staggering” level, human rights groups said yesterday.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk yesterday said China was violating fundamental rights in its Xinjiang and Tibet regions and called on Beijing to change course.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised a full investigation after a recording of confidential army talks on the Ukraine war was circulated on Russian social media, in a huge embarrassment for Berlin.