Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy began a five-year sentence yesterday for conspiring to raise campaign funds from Libya, arriving at La Sante prison in Paris in a stunning downfall for a man who led the country between 2007 and 2012.

US Vice President JD Vance landed in Israel yesterday to shore up a fragile Gaza ceasefire deal, after President Donald Trump warned Hamas it would be wiped out if it breached the truce.

Begins 5-year sentence at La Santé prison after conviction for criminal conspiracy

She lives outside Sydney, and travelling to a Westpac corporate office takes almost two hours

She has promised a cabinet with "Nordic" levels of women

The ballroom project is expected to cost upwards of $250 million

Trump has also warned the group to stop public executions of rivals and alleged collaborators as it seeks to reestablish its grip on the devastated territory

Rare earths deal aims to counter China's supply control

The European Union is looking to increase the ability of its member states to carry out inspections on Russia’s “shadow fleet” of ageing oil tankers, officials said yesterday.

Many popular internet services, from streaming platforms to messaging services and some banks, went offline for hours yesterday due to an outage in Amazon’s crucial cloud network.

Israeli fire killed three people near a ceasefire line in Gaza yesterday, medics said, as US envoys in Israel tried to push forward the fragile truce that faced its gravest test so far over the weekend.

Italy’s coastguard said Sunday it had rescued 91 people from a migrant boat adrift off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, but two males were found dead.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday rebuffed claims by US President Donald Trump that the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites had been destroyed by US strikes in June.

Bolivians on Sunday elected a pro-business center-right senator as their new president, ending two decades of socialist rule that left the South American nation deep in economic crisis.

United States President Donald Trump has called for Russia and Ukraine to freeze the war along current battle lines – a proposal that would see Moscow keep large areas of Ukrainian territory.

Deal part of financial support from Trump administration, backing Javier Milei

Pakistani Taliban operate in 'connivance' with Afghan Taliban, says minister

Israeli CGI Group told earlier Louvre had asked for its help for investigation

Photos and live video footage from local media show the plane's fuselage partly submerged in water

Starlink did not respond to a request for comment following AFP's investigation