A lawyer says Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been given a six-year prison term, a two-year travel ban and exile to South Khorasan, though the verdict can still be appealed.
Sussan Ley and David Littleproud struck a deal to reunite the Liberal-National Coalition after another split, restoring a shared opposition frontbench.
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has secured a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house, giving Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi room to pursue a sharper conservative agenda after only three months in office.
Senegalese police say they have arrested 14 suspects in a child abuse network allegedly run by a French citizen, exposing a case that stretched across years and crossed borders.
Juan Pablo Guanipa was released from prison in Caracas after more than eight months, only for armed men in civilian clothes to kidnap him hours later, turning a brief moment of relief into a fresh crisis.
Morgan McSweeney stepped down as UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, saying he was responsible for advising the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington.
Portugal kept its presidential election on schedule overall, but some municipalities postponed voting by a week after a series of Atlantic storms caused deaths, flooding and heavy damage.
Greek authorities released everyone they detained after a predawn raid at Aristotle University that followed an attack on riot police with more than 100 Molotov cocktails.
The nine-member council is ending its mandate with Port-au-Prince still dominated by gangs and the US-backed prime minister facing the job of organizing August elections.
Regulators say infinite scroll, autoplay and personalized recommendations can encourage compulsive use, while TikTok rejects the findings as meritless.
US officials said a long-sealed indictment has been activated against Zubayr al-Bakoush, whom they describe as a key participant in the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans.
French authorities said an explosive device thrown into a beauty salon in Grenoble wounded six people and appeared intended to intimidate rather than kill.
The former minister left the upper chamber amid allegations that he shared market-sensitive government information with Jeffrey Epstein during the financial crisis.
Three of six Palestine Action defendants were cleared of aggravated burglary at Woolwich Crown Court, while other counts remained unresolved and five defendants were released on bail.
Event date: 2026-02-04; Vladimir Motin was jailed for six years after a North Sea collision that left crew member Mark Angelo Pernia missing, presumed dead.
France’s cybercrime unit, with Europol and French police support, searched X’s French office as prosecutors expanded a January 2025 probe into alleged algorithm manipulation, illicit data extraction and related offences.